I ran the four TLEs through SkyMapPro Version 9 (http://www.skymap.com) for elevation 208 (relative to the WGS84 ellipsoid), and elevation 164 (relative to Mean Sea Level). The tracks produced by SkyMapPro are very close to the ones displayed on Thomas Fly's page: http://iss-transit.sourceforge.net/MissionAccomplished.html. One thing to note: The first time I ran SkyMapPro and entered 48:15:28.6 for the lattitude, the tracks came out 1/3 of a Venus higher. It appears SkyMapPro truncated the tenths portion of 28.6 seconds of lattitue to 28. I then did another run for 48:15:29, and those results are about dead on to the ones Thomas has on his page. Thomas Fly <tfly@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: This was the primary point of my earlier post: "European Space Agency story of Tomás Maruska's ISS / Venus transit" http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0287.html Perhaps others would like to compare the results from their software, using those TLEs and Tomás' location, to those of CalSKY and SkyMap. The ground tracks produced by my WorldView program are in close agreement with the sky tracks produced by SkyMap. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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