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   Tony Langdon to mark lewis   
   Re: Active or dead?   
   03 Nov 16 14:56:00   
   
   -=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    TL> Tracking satellites, are we? ;)   
      
    ml> absolutely! caught 15 visually tonight... that's about average around   
    ml> here but if we were able to shoot^H^H^H^H^Hturn out some lights, we'd   
    ml> have a darker sky and likely catch maybe 10 more ;)   
      
   Cool.  I have a habit of being able to look up at a random time and see   
   satellites. :D  One night, I managed 3 immediately. :)   
      
    TL> Yep, I do know what TLEs are, and have used them many times. :-)   
      
    ml> my project was mainly designed to replace orbitel because of its   
    ml> ancient DOS (and BASIC) limitations... especially considering that   
    ml> orbitel could not create a full TLE list with all current satellites in   
    ml> it...   
      
   I don't know Orbitel.  I've used Predict a little in recent years.   
      
      
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