I noticed that Guide8 seems to show artifical satellites in earth
orbit as being much brighter than do other software packages (such as
Dennis Boucher's EOO, for example). In fact, based on my own
observations of several satellites, I think Guide8 considerably
overstates the brightness of many of these objects. How is Guide8
getting the satellite magnitudes and is there any way the user can
change this data? I searched and found a discussion of this from last
January, but this issue didn't seem to be resolved. I am getting my
satellite TLE data from the complete Space Track website catalog which
I download every day or so. Thanks.