Hi everyone, While out imaging minor planet 2012 QG42, I also did some imaging of M74. I was making 6o second exposures. In several frames a satellite was ...
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hubbell_jerry
Sep 14, 2012 11:03 pm
I guess it would help also to know my location. It is in Locust Grove, VA. That should be close enough to identify the satellite. Let me know if you need more...
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Björn Gimle
bg_26934
Sep 15, 2012 1:36 pm
It's a Russian Breeze rocket, #36587 2009-75 B at 35830 km distance from the DIRECTV 12 launch, left in a 12h transfer orbit so it was near apogee at the time,...
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hubbell_jerry
Sep 15, 2012 2:15 pm
Thanks Bjorn, I appreciate it very much! Jerry Hubbell, Lake of the Woods Observatory (MPC I24) ... from ... apogee...
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stevethornton54
Sep 17, 2012 5:37 am
Hi all, I just picked up a CPC 1100 and was interested in seeing if I could do some satellite tracking with it. I want to start out with the ISS of course and...
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Ronald Lansing
ron_lansing
Sep 17, 2012 2:31 pm
Steve: You may want to look at Darwin's site. http://darwinsastroworld.com/ Ron "You will not see, if you do not look" www.youtube.com/Rondomon www.ufonv.com ...
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bryancashion
Sep 17, 2012 3:48 pm
Steve: Go to the Files section. Download SETUP.EXE, SAT.EXE version 2.4.9b, and Larry McNish's Manual. Run setup.exe to install the base version, replace the...
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jimmyjujames
Sep 17, 2012 11:32 pm
Lots of satellites available to view daily after sunset and before sunrise. Download visual.tle with about 200 visual satellites down to mag +6 to +7. Learn...
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brown_rb
Sep 18, 2012 6:05 pm
Hi Anyone know if Satrack app will be updated to take into account the move by US gov to remove the tle files download (which is happening soon)? What...
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maleroli
Sep 18, 2012 7:20 pm
Hi Robert, yesterday i have the same problem as you to login by spacetrack. I push the botton forget password, and a other Site was on the screen to login...
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Worsel
bryancashion
Sep 18, 2012 7:51 pm
Robert: Can you provide more details on this ad where you are getting your info? I can login into Space-track.org as usual and there is nothing in the news...
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leotaylor2
Sep 18, 2012 9:41 pm
... Welcome to the group! I think Ron, Bryan, and Jimmie pretty well covered your situation. Satellite Tracker was designed for the Meade LX200 Classic but...
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stevethornton54
Sep 19, 2012 3:27 am
Thanks for your help; I'm looking forward to giving everything a try. Steve...
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jimmyjujames
Sep 19, 2012 10:16 am
I got this email from spacetrack back on aug 24, 2012 The Space-Track.org development team is redesigning the website to improve its data sharing methods. We...
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John Mahony
jmmahony
Sep 19, 2012 2:37 pm
... originally yes, but it was later expanded to handle several other models. ... Yes, since ST hasn't been actively developed for a few years now, some have...
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John Mahony
jmmahony
Sep 19, 2012 3:05 pm
... Unlikely- it hasn't been supported/updated in years. ... The automatic file download in ST is just there for convenience. As long as you can get a TLE...
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leotaylor2
Sep 19, 2012 3:15 pm
... Hi, This sounds scary. I don't think Satellite tracker will every be re-written and tested to use the new API. Brent only made one fix (ver 2.49b in 2011)...
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John Mahony
jmmahony
Sep 19, 2012 3:45 pm
... There were two since he quit actively supporting it- note setup.exe put in the group files as freeware in March '08, then sat.exe v2.49 was an update in...
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Worsel
bryancashion
Sep 19, 2012 7:59 pm
Leo: After reading the space-track note, I'm actually less concerned. They are not restricting data access; only how you get the data. They are not going to...
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Andrew Hood
m1thr4nd1r
Sep 20, 2012 6:13 am
... Just today I have been trying to get the new method to work. As long as I just download the complete latest TLE it works, albeit rather slowly. If you also...
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Ronald Lansing
ron_lansing
Sep 20, 2012 7:10 am
They are actually looking into restricting access to the data. Some people have been writing nice emails to their development team asking nicely for them to...
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Andrew Hood
m1thr4nd1r
Sep 20, 2012 9:14 am
I got an answer back. In the help they say to use '>' '<' etc in the filters, but you have to use the HTML escapes like %3E and they MUST be in upper case. ...
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John Mahony
jmmahony
Sep 20, 2012 10:46 am
... Russia presumably has a similar operation (the reason Norad tracks sats and space junk to to avoid mistaking one for an incoming missile), but I wouldn't...
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leotaylor2
Sep 20, 2012 5:38 pm
... It is not the format of the TLE I meant, it is the format of the new downloaded files. The way I read the announcement is Downloading will only get the new...
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Worsel
bryancashion
Sep 20, 2012 7:57 pm
I added a file to the Files section. File name - visual_tle_beta_link.txt Login into the beta site, copy and paste the text in the above file, press enter. ...
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sweiller
sweillerus
Sep 21, 2012 10:28 am
Hi all, 20120921 4h(UT), sky was clear as forecasted ... Emmanuel's system worked very nicely as fully described here after this morning pass ! ...
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ron_lansing
Sep 22, 2012 3:36 pm
NOTE: This second version has the frame by frame sequence at the end. What I thought was a common meteor video turned out to have a surprise! This was captured...
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krist jean-louis
kristjeanlouis
Sep 22, 2012 5:01 pm
désinscription -- Tout usage de ce message par une personne autre que son destinataire est strictement interdit. L'intégrité de ce message n'étant pas...
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bryancashion
Oct 3, 2012 10:24 pm
I received this from Space-Track.org beta team. I modified the file visual_tle_beta_link.txt in the files section. Steps to produce a working visual.tle file...
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jimmyjujames
Oct 4, 2012 11:55 am
Thanks! I did not try to paste into web browser, but I did copy and paste into my wget batch file. Downloads 3-line tls's. Opened the new beta visual.txt in...
