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Daphne Eze
This was mentioned in the LangaList newsletter. It is cardware.
Cheers
Daphne
Orbitron is a satellite tracking system for radio amateur and observing
purposes. It's also used by weather professionals, satellite communication
users, UFO hobbyist and astrologers.
Application shows the positions of satellites at any given moment (in real
or simulated time). It's FREE (Cardware) and it's probably one of the easiest
and most powerful satellite trackers, according to opinions of thousands of
users from all over the world. I'm still working on it, waiting for your
opinions and bug reports. Please try it. If you would like it - tell your
friends about it and send me a postcard...
FEATURES:
• NORAD SGP4/SDP4 prediction models
• 2000 satellites can be loaded from TLE file(s) (auto: PC/Unix, 2/3 line)
• ALL of them can be tracked at the same time
• Sun and Moon tracking
• full screen, presentation modes
• supported screen resolutions from 640x480
• Real-time mode / Simulation mode (free time control)
• advanced passes & Iridium flares search engine (results printing)
• miscellaneous options of visualisation
• nightlife (dark color scheme for night usage)
• orbit info
• notes for each object
• radar
• easy, flexible interface
• database of cities around the world
• database of satellite frequiencies
• PC clock synchronization via NTP
• Internet TLE updater (with ZIP support) via HTTP
• rotor/radio control (built-in or user's driver support)
• Windows screen saver included
• translations supported
• and many, many, more...
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (recommendations)
• Windows 9x/2k/Me/XP/2003, Linux [with Wine emulation]
• 150 MHz processor (300 MHz)
• 16 MB RAM (32 MB)
• 5 MB free space on hard drive
• 640x480 screen resolution (800x600x16 bit)
Cheers
Daphne
Orbitron is a satellite tracking system for radio amateur and observing
purposes. It's also used by weather professionals, satellite communication
users, UFO hobbyist and astrologers.
Application shows the positions of satellites at any given moment (in real
or simulated time). It's FREE (Cardware) and it's probably one of the easiest
and most powerful satellite trackers, according to opinions of thousands of
users from all over the world. I'm still working on it, waiting for your
opinions and bug reports. Please try it. If you would like it - tell your
friends about it and send me a postcard...
FEATURES:
• NORAD SGP4/SDP4 prediction models
• 2000 satellites can be loaded from TLE file(s) (auto: PC/Unix, 2/3 line)
• ALL of them can be tracked at the same time
• Sun and Moon tracking
• full screen, presentation modes
• supported screen resolutions from 640x480
• Real-time mode / Simulation mode (free time control)
• advanced passes & Iridium flares search engine (results printing)
• miscellaneous options of visualisation
• nightlife (dark color scheme for night usage)
• orbit info
• notes for each object
• radar
• easy, flexible interface
• database of cities around the world
• database of satellite frequiencies
• PC clock synchronization via NTP
• Internet TLE updater (with ZIP support) via HTTP
• rotor/radio control (built-in or user's driver support)
• Windows screen saver included
• translations supported
• and many, many, more...
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (recommendations)
• Windows 9x/2k/Me/XP/2003, Linux [with Wine emulation]
• 150 MHz processor (300 MHz)
• 16 MB RAM (32 MB)
• 5 MB free space on hard drive
• 640x480 screen resolution (800x600x16 bit)