Hi All,
Ok, so moving on from other questions, how can you predict when the satellite will or won’t be in eclipse?
I have seen reports saying that UO-11 will be out of sun light for this amount of time, how does one create these charts?
Sorry for all the questions.. I am one of the young ones that John (LA2QAA) says we cant get more off J
Thanks
Chris
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At 09:16 AM 1/15/2008, Chris Bloy wrote:
Ok, so moving on from other questions, how can you predict when the satellite will or won't be in eclipse?
InsantTrack just tells you. In fact, if you enter an estimate of the size of the spacecraft, InstantTrack will give you an estimate of the brightness of the spacecraft (in units of magnitude, just like stars).
Some other tracking programs may do similar things.
So looks like InstantTrack is the software to use then.. I use Orbitron, but seems to lack all the features that IT brings?
Thanks for your help..
-----Original Message----- From: Franklin Antonio [mailto:antonio@qualcomm.com] Sent: 15 January 2008 18:24 To: Chris Bloy Cc: 'amsat' Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Sun or not
At 09:16 AM 1/15/2008, Chris Bloy wrote:
Ok, so moving on from other questions, how can you predict when the satellite will or won't be in eclipse?
InsantTrack just tells you. In fact, if you enter an estimate of the size of the spacecraft, InstantTrack will give you an estimate of the brightness of the spacecraft (in units of magnitude, just like stars).
Some other tracking programs may do similar things.
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