Re: sat tracking software

From: Mir16609@aol.com
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 16:12:35 EST

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    In a message dated 12/2/2003 3:23:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, Denis <boucherd@telusplanet.net> writes:
    
    >I use my own. Wrote the program for a friend, seems to be happy with it.
    >Guide 8 is my preference for some observations, very accurate I must 
    >say. I used the same improved SGP4/SDP4 in my program.
    
    Guide 8 is good but the author needs to show eclipse entry on the
    tracks.  Hopefully that will be done on the next release.
    
    What is particularly  good about Guide 8 is that is plots star fields
    very quickly on old, slow laptops (like the kind I use in the field)
    
    -- 
    Cheers,
    Don Gardner  39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL
    http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
    http://www.howardastro.org/
    
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