Thanks Jay and all who have told me where to get tles for sat not in the visual list. By NORAD site I mean www.celestrack.com/NORAD/documentation where I got my visual.txt Ulhas Deshpande Nagpur, Central India 21 08 30 N,79 03 08 E Alt 247 m ----- Original Message ----- From: "JAY RESPLER" <jrespler@superlink.net> To: "SeeSat-L" <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Sent: Thursday, 06 September, 2001 13:03 Subject: Re: tles > Brad wrote: > > > > Ulhas Deshpande wrote: > > > > > > Hello folks > > > I have playing around with Sebastian 's program 'Orb' to check satellite > > > visibilities. I downloaded the tle file for 'visual' from NORAD site which > > > works fine.However I find that the tle file does not contain some satellites > > > which H-A says should be visible from my location e.g. GPS-2-13 Rocket and > > > DELTA 224 as well as COMOS 2360. > > > Any reason? > > > > Visual.txt is a relatively short list of visible sats. You can get the > > tles for the sats you named, and many others, from mccants.tle at > > http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/tles/index.html > > My criteria for including sats in VISUAL is that it usually reaches > mag 4 or brighter. Other sites can have other reasons for including > something. That's why we may not have the same objects. > What is that NORAD site? > > VISUAL started as the 100 brightest sats, but I expanded it to > include all naked eye sats so it's a bit larger now. > mccants.tle includes many fainter sats of some particular interest. > Therefore it is a larger list. > > If anyone has suggestions for changes to VISUAL, you may contact > me off-list. > -- > Jay Respler > -- > JRespler@superlink.net > SKY VIEWS: http://mars.superlink.net/jrespler/skyviews.htm > Satellite Tracker * Early Typewriter Collector > Freehold, New Jersey > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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