Awesome stuff!! I'll have to check out this library tonight. I started hacking at something similar but started digging into the internals of SGP4/SDP4, then got distracted and never finished. If you have a rotator, it'd be a cool quick project to slap pyserial on there and control your rotator. It'd be pretty awesome to have a Kep to Rotator Control in about 10 lines of code :-) Joe
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Rich Dailey (Gmail) redailey1@gmail.comwrote:
Great stuff, Mark. I'm an old, dusty assembler, and later a C programmer. Used to program for fun, then for profit, then after a few years of life I looked around and the art had snuck ahead of me.
I used to hack up the PREDICT code for my own devious purposes, and just to have fun with the source.
Your blog post reminded me of how fun it is to cobble together one's own code to solve a particular problem. Keep it up!
Rich, N8UX
Mark wrote:
You can find some of the simple example code at my blog:
http://brainwagon.org/2009/09/27/how-to-use-python-to-predict-satellite-loca...
I'll probably be porting all of my existing scripts to use this soon. In the mean time, if you have a similar task, you might look to it to solve your custom satellite prediction problems.
73 Mark K6HX _______________________________________________
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