Tracking the Shuttle

Maybe someone is familiar with the NASA link science.nasa.gov that is supposed
to provide a ground track of the shuttle. I found the sat tracking page
http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html, but coaxing out the
shuttle path over several days and gathering rise and set times of it for a
particular earth location weren't obvious. I see J-track, J-pass, Shuttle track,
and station track as options but they seem a little too simple. How do I get
rise and set data for a particular location?
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

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"W. Watson" wrote in message
.net...
Maybe someone is familiar with the NASA link science.nasa.gov that is
supposed
to provide a ground track of the shuttle. I found the sat tracking page
http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/jtrack/Spacecraft.html, but coaxing out
the
shuttle path over several days and gathering rise and set times of it for
a
particular earth location weren't obvious. I see J-track, J-pass, Shuttle
track,
and station track as options but they seem a little too simple. How do I
get
rise and set data for a particular location?
--

You might be better off using Heavens Above.

Vernon wrote:

You might be better off using Heavens Above.


Or XEphem

wget --random-wait -A.txt -O iss.txt celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/sts.txt
wget --random-wait -A.txt -O sts.txt celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/iss.txt

tle2edb.pl iss.txt ../iss.edb
tle2edb.pl sts.txt ../sts.edb

There's nice listing of all the major cities, flyover times, elevation,
etc. on this link:-

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata...ties/index.cgi

Hope that helps.

AA

This is a rough TLL file that give a faily accurate path.
(cut and paste, and save as a .txt file to load into an astronomy
program):


STS-114
1 28775U 05026A 05208.61974727 -.00182074 22726-4 -38038-3 0 106
2 28775 051.6445 053.9870 0010497 238.5195 227.0457 15.97827428 169


Should give you this IMAGE:
August 8th 8:34 UT
http://photos22.flickr.com/31498328_10af82109a_o.jpg