Is it really changing this fast? This morning I Up-Dated Orbitron, Ran a prediction, and around noon was gonna be a pass to see if I could hear her.
This page, http://www.satview.org/index.php
For my location at 6 AM had the pass happening about 10 minutes sooner than what Orbitron predicted.
So I came up to the radio at the web sites time, fired up the web page, and the bird had already passed and was deep in the southern hemisphere already. WOW!
I re upped the tles again on Orbitron, and it too said down there. wow are the tles changing this quickly.
And where can we go to get the most current up to the minute if possible data?
Gonna be hard to try to see it re-enter if the times are this far off in only a couple hours.
Joe WB9SBD
Hi Joe,
Looks page you mention could be using at times older keps.
I compared with other predictions and you are right, they were off by about 10 minutes.
Give a try to http://lu7abf.com.ar/pass this page updates keps 8 times a day, using the most recent, either celestrak.com or space-track.org . Good luck on next hunt of BY70-1
73, LU7ABF, Pedro
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Joe nss@mwt.net wrote:
Is it really changing this fast? This morning I Up-Dated Orbitron, Ran a prediction, and around noon was gonna be a pass to see if I could hear her.
This page, http://www.satview.org/index.php
For my location at 6 AM had the pass happening about 10 minutes sooner than what Orbitron predicted.
So I came up to the radio at the web sites time, fired up the web page, and the bird had already passed and was deep in the southern hemisphere already. WOW!
I re upped the tles again on Orbitron, and it too said down there. wow are the tles changing this quickly.
And where can we go to get the most current up to the minute if possible data?
Gonna be hard to try to see it re-enter if the times are this far off in only a couple hours.
Joe WB9SBD
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