Bill Gray Feb 9, 2013
On 02/08/2013 01:23 PM, jarisuomela wrote:
> I see that Guide reports the brightness of Vanguard 1 as up to 4th magnitude.
Ouch! Turns out Guide was reading the "absolute magnitude" of artificial
satellites in a really strange way, resulting in some garbage magnitudes.
I've fixed this; if you go to
http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
and download the current version, the magnitudes should be more reasonable.
It's quite true that magnitude data isn't available for a lot of objects.
If you go into Settings... TLE=(whatever you currently have set) and click on
the line for "Click here for name and magnitude data", things should improve,
especially for more recent objects.
-- Bill