Hi Tom, Everyone has their favourite. Mine is Orbitron and by coincidence I have it running at the moment with Calipso highlighted with ground track selected. Yesterday I even went out at 3:00 pm local time and looked up into the dazzling white cumulus half expecting to see one of the clouds suddenly change to green! (I jest, but wouldn't that be great to see!) I used Orbitron (free download from http://www.stoff.pl) to spot Suitsat and that was not an easy object to see from Canberra. Here's the data from a few seconds ago: CALIPSO Lon 28.0621° W Lat 49.1764° N Alt (km) 710.187 Azm 352.0° Elv -82.9° RA 00h 53m 01s Decl 42° 30' 23" Range (km) 13 349.190 RRt (km/s) 0.875 Vel (km/s) 7.505 Direction Descending Eclipse No MA (phase) 79.5° (56) TA 79.6° Orbit # 1 817 Mag (illum) Not visible Constellation And Cheers, Bill Frost Canberra, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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