Re: Ground track calculations

From: Bill Frost (billfrost@bigpond.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 00:18:04 EDT

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    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
    
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