Palm satellite software
Mike DiMuzio (mdimuzio@cisnet.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:57:25 +0000
This is forwarded from Dome-L, a planetarium e-list.
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PalmPilot owners: EMM Graphics has come out with a rather impressive new
program for the Palm/PalmPIlot/Pilot called PocketSat that predicts
satellite passes. The company's Website makes databases available of the
brightest 50 and 100 satellites, which you can download periodically (you
can also obtain a Windows program that will convert the standard TLE data).
You select which of these you wish to obtain info about, select a date
interval and a time interval, and the program calculates visible passes for
you. It also gives you a diagram of the pass. Desktop software may give you
a larger display, and will work faster (the Pilot was never really designed
for high-level math calculations), but this one you can carry with you. I
wish I had had this available when I went on a trip through Europe after IPS
1998 last year!
PocketSat is available for a $12.50 shareware fee from the PilotGear Web
site. More info about the program is available at www.emmgraphics.com/pilot.
I can field questions about any details.
--Keith Johnson
Reno Nevada
keithj@unr.edu
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41.087N 80.714W 305 meters
Mike DiMuzio mdimuzio@cisnet.com