I wrote this Mar.9, but it never got posted, and I think it was not said in the other replies: ... > then you won't see it at all. The 3.0 in the top line of the elset means > that at 90 degree sun-satellite-observer angle and a distance of 1000 km its > magnitude will be 3.0. More illumination or closer equals brighter, reverse Quicksat and SkyMap (and others) compute the apparent magnitude from the (standard) elset format, or a quicksat.mag or satmag.dat file info. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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