Bruce MacDonald wrote: > I can see the hobby taking a big step back in the sense that most > casual satellite watchers will miss out on the easy sats like the ISS > if that information is not put into the public domain. For forecasting appearances of the ISS (and Shuttle, when it starts flying again), NASA's MCC provides the best information anyway, and presumably will continue to do so. Hopefully, http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass/PassGenerator/ also will continue to provide alerts; http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html will continue to work, etc. FYI those currently subscribing to ISS Transit email alerts, I've been investing some time in de-Mickey Mousing the transit computation code (the project started mostly as an excuse for me to play around with the Java 3D API... oops!)- particularly so as to provide accurate results at low angles of elevation- which is why no alerts have been generated since Monday; new alerts will probably go out today, sometime. Hopefully I'll also have time to add ISS Jupiter & Saturn "encounters" as a new feature, in time for Saturn's opposition. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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