drt on Feb 23 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
It all started with a forwarded message to the Sea-sat L list, and the responses kept growing including this one, where Dr. Tony Phillips wrote:
The explosion photographed last night by Gordon Garradd and others in Australia (see http://spaceweather.com/ for several photos) has been tentatively identified by Jon P. Boers of the Air Force Space Surveillance System [...]
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drt on Feb 11 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
I was waiting for today’s pass of ISS using Heavens-above data shown below and I took this picture of Venus. No, actually I really don’t know what is the name of this planet. It was so bright, I guess somewhere around -0.2, since it was a little bit less dimmer than ISS tonight which according to Heavens-above was at -0.2. However from the [...]
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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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