[amsat-bb] Visual Satellite Display

[Bob Bruninga <bruninga@xxxxxxxx>]

I just posted a program that will show graphically the elevation angle and
polar plot of all visual satellties that will be in view in the next 10 to
30 minutes or so.  See the screen shot:

   http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/photos/visual.jpg

It is ideal to run in real-time when outdoors after sunset.  It is hands
off, in that the display just always shows you whats up there, and there
is almost always something up there within 10 minutes or so.  The amateur
satellites (not visible) are shown solid so you can't miss them.  But all
the others are from the VISUAL subset of Tom Kelso's CELESTRAK site.

The whole program and keps file is less than 120K.  Actually, it is just
an extract of the graphical time display of APRStk... and the PCSAT
program...

Download:  ftp://tapr.org/aprssig/dosstuff/APRSdos/visual.zip

I did it up today because my wife was going to be having a star-party
tonight at her telescope, and I thought it would be neat to see any
satellites..  It is kinda crude, but works great!

de WB4APR@amsat.org, Bob



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