drt on Jan 21 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
Jeff Hunts was the first to alert me that my new COSPAR station location was some 25 miles away from my home address and he even sent me the copy of Google Earth picture. I was so excited that finally I found how to register COSPAR station number, got my own station number, and forget [...]
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drt on Jan 19 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
I did!
It’s a handy tool, and you can use your mouse to pinpoint the location and get the lat/long info of your home address, or any place you pick. Of course, you have to pray that Google or whatever databases they use have all the satellite mosaics for that particular area with the resolution you [...]
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drt on Jan 17 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
I’m not sure if ‘google’ has been accepted as a verb or not, but I think I’ve seen people used the experission ‘to google’ something.
Over the pass few days I have been googling the words “COSPAR Station Number” but I was not happy with the results until finally, with the help of Bruce MacDonald, Björn [...]
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drt on Jan 16 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
It was a rainy day and I thought it would be a good time to test my camera. I couldn’t find the manual and the electronic setting didn’t give me an option to set the ISO speed rating. I just simply placed the camera on the tripod and used the Shutter priority setting. I then [...]
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