13 Oct
2008
13 Oct
'08
1:14 p.m.
Simon (HB9DRV) wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Wandling W7BRS" jw@w7brs.com
ps. Again, reply directly -- this sort of question can make enough spam on the DL to last you through Festivus.
A very good starting point is Dr Kelso's work on http://celestrak.com/
And there's plenty (!) of C++ code out there which implements the algorithms, so (worst case) you could figure things from the code.
Bit of a digression, but you know what we need, one of these days, is an open source code library for satellite tracking -- ideally cross-platform for both *nix/Windows. This is something that would get use outside of the amateur community.