Good morning all,
Wonderful inspiring view of ISS and Atlantis from this QTH last night. The neighbors are still talking about it and want to bring friends for an ISS party tonight!
To the question...
What prediction program are folks using under Linux. I'm using Ubuntu on a pretty standard 800MHz Celeron with 256 M of memory.
Thanks for all the help from several quarters. I'm getting proper answers now after Charlie Sufana (AJ9N) sent me the KEPS he's using. I apparently had gotten some wrong KEPS and was out of whack.
It appears from this that an easy and reliable source is http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/ for anyone who might also be wondering about such things.
Thanks and 73, Richard N1ASA
What tracking software? I use two programs. For casual viewing of what is going on I run mtrack, which gives me a nice view of where the satellites are across the planet, pass predictions, and the ground visibility circle. For actual tracking, I have a copy of predict, which I have modified to drive my homebrew Az/El rotor controller. The PC is running SuSE 10.0, but I expect both will run on any Linux distro and PC.
Greg KO6TH
----Original Message Follows---- From: VK2XCI vk2xci@aanet.com.au To: Sarex sarex@AMSAT.Org Subject: [sarex] Linux tracker Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:30:58 +1000
Good morning all,
Wonderful inspiring view of ISS and Atlantis from this QTH last night. The neighbors are still talking about it and want to bring friends for an ISS party tonight!
To the question...
What prediction program are folks using under Linux. I'm using Ubuntu on a pretty standard 800MHz Celeron with 256 M of memory.
-- de VK2XCI Norm in Mildura, QF15bt Australia's Wintersun City ---- Sent via sarex@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex
I guess I really mean prediction software! From the Ubuntu Gnome Repository I've got Gnome Predict 'sort of running" It puts me IN the right place QF15bt but REPORTS it as QF25bt so I'm a bit suspicious about the accuracy. Feel free to put me right.
Anyway, it's on hold for a day or so, the latest assignment from TAFE (Tech College) is a "doozy" and will eat a fair bit of playtime. Sigh.... never mind, I can see light at the end of the tunnel, hopefully its not a train!!!!
Greg D. wrote:
What tracking software? I use two programs. For casual viewing of what is going on I run mtrack, which gives me a nice view of where the satellites are across the planet, pass predictions, and the ground visibility circle. For actual tracking, I have a copy of predict, which I have modified to drive my homebrew Az/El rotor controller. The PC is running SuSE 10.0, but I expect both will run on any Linux distro and PC.
Greg KO6TH
----Original Message Follows---- From: VK2XCI vk2xci@aanet.com.au To: Sarex sarex@AMSAT.Org Subject: [sarex] Linux tracker Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:30:58 +1000
Good morning all,
Wonderful inspiring view of ISS and Atlantis from this QTH last night. The neighbors are still talking about it and want to bring friends for an ISS party tonight!
To the question...
What prediction program are folks using under Linux. I'm using Ubuntu on a pretty standard 800MHz Celeron with 256 M of memory.
-- de VK2XCI Norm in Mildura, QF15bt Australia's Wintersun City
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Hi Norm and others,
Quoting "Norm, VK2XCI" vk2xci@aanet.com.au:
I guess I really mean prediction software! From the Ubuntu Gnome Repository I've got Gnome Predict 'sort of running" It puts me IN the right place QF15bt but REPORTS it as QF25bt so I'm a bit suspicious about the accuracy. Feel free to put me right.
You are not wrong, but the version available in the Ubuntu repositories is very old and has many bugs. There has been a major update to gpredict quite recently, including improvements of the accuracy and prediction capabilities.
The new version is available for debian at http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gpredict.html and as far as I know Ubuntu uses the same packages as Debian, so you could give it a try.
Information about third party packages for other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac is avalable at http://groundstation.sourceforge.net/gpredict/download.php
Alex OZ9AEC
Thank you Alex, I'll get to look at that sometime this weekend. I did notice it was the 0.5 version Quite a bit of the Ubuntu repository is a little dated. !
Norm
Alexandru Csete wrote:
Hi Norm and others,
Quoting "Norm, VK2XCI" vk2xci@aanet.com.au:
I guess I really mean prediction software! From the Ubuntu Gnome Repository I've got Gnome Predict 'sort of running" It puts me IN the right place QF15bt but REPORTS it as QF25bt so I'm a bit suspicious about the accuracy. Feel free to put me right.
You are not wrong, but the version available in the Ubuntu repositories is very old and has many bugs. There has been a major update to gpredict quite recently, including improvements of the accuracy and prediction capabilities.
The new version is available for debian at http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gpredict.html and as far as I know Ubuntu uses the same packages as Debian, so you could give it a try.
Information about third party packages for other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac is avalable at http://groundstation.sourceforge.net/gpredict/download.php
Alex OZ9AEC
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