Re: [guide-user] Test update posted

Kevin Fetter Jan 19, 2005

--- Bill J Gray <pluto@...> wrote:

> * The ability to get artificial satellite magnitudes and names
> from another source (addressing the issue Kevin Fetter just raised);

I find that, say for the iss, the mag value given is different when I use a tle file with no mag
data, along with the above way to get the mag data, then if I use mike's file which has mag data.
They should be the same value of mag, as they use the same mag info to compute the magnitude value
of the iss. I am missing something

At http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm

you say bill

Remember that in one respect, UCAC-2 differs from the other downloadable datasets: it doesn't
cover the entire sky. Most areas north of about declination +40 lack UCAC-2 data.

From what I can tell, it now cover's the whole sky. I could be wrong.

See

http://ad.usno.navy.mil/ucac/status.gif

as found at

http://ad.usno.navy.mil/ucac/

Also I don't know why I thought the UTC was fixed in guide. I get UTC being off from EST. There's
a 5 hours difference in time zone, but the seconds value is off by 1 second it seems between them.

Kevin






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