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To: RightWhale
Close to earth there are so many satellites it is just a cloud.

At the risk of being totally obnoxiously officious (and a million apologies if I am being), zoom in until the earth completely fills up your monitor. Then the cloud resolves itself into hundreds of little specks. Set the refresh rate to 1/4 second and watch the satellites as they approach your hometown.

I'm gonna try to use it tonight to see if I can pick 'em up in binoculars as they fly over. A lot more fun than looking up the transit times for observable satellites in some table.

They even track rocket boosters (the name will end in R/B). :-)

21 posted on 10/05/2002 1:53:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
I'm gonna try to use it tonight to see if I can pick 'em up in binoculars as they fly over

The new "amateur" telescopes, tricked out with CCDs and computerized star atlas, could have a link to satellites. I don't know if they do, but it should be possible to link.

22 posted on 10/05/2002 1:58:15 PM PDT by RightWhale
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