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Hi all, I'll take my chances here for getting flamed posting a commercial. But hey, it's subject matter related, guaranteed not to enlarge your tally wacker (well, it could, I suppose), and generally great software. Only today, for 24 hours, my satellite tracking, iridium flare predicting and earth with clouds displaying software SatWhere can be purchased for a lousy $17 from http://www.satwhere.com. The occasion: My birthday! That's 50 cents for every year I've been around, life doesn't come any cheaper than that. Enjoy everyone! - Balt |
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wrote in message oups.com... Hi all, I'll take my chances here for getting flamed posting a commercial. But hey, it's subject matter related, guaranteed not to enlarge your tally wacker (well, it could, I suppose), and generally great software. Only today, for 24 hours, my satellite tracking, iridium flare predicting and earth with clouds displaying software SatWhere can be purchased for a lousy $17 from http://www.satwhere.com. The occasion: My birthday! That's 50 cents for every year I've been around, life doesn't come any cheaper than that. Enjoy everyone! - Balt Well yes , but Orbitron does all that and more, incredibly well for the measly price of a postcard. |
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:32:29 GMT, "kayakkhan"
wrote: wrote in message roups.com... Hi all, I'll take my chances here for getting flamed posting a commercial. But hey, it's subject matter related, guaranteed not to enlarge your tally wacker (well, it could, I suppose), and generally great software. Only today, for 24 hours, my satellite tracking, iridium flare predicting and earth with clouds displaying software SatWhere can be purchased for a lousy $17 from http://www.satwhere.com. The occasion: My birthday! That's 50 cents for every year I've been around, life doesn't come any cheaper than that. Enjoy everyone! - Balt Well yes , but Orbitron does all that and more, incredibly well for the measly price of a postcard. Yes even at $17 it is to expensive..... A lot of think are missing..... Best Greetings From SWITZERLAND Philippe HAAKE ICQ 3128404 http://astrosurf.com/skylover/ http://astrosurf.com/skylover/album/index.htm http://astrosurf.com/skylover/meteo http://www.astro-ge.net/ beruberu@NOSBSPAMfreesurfDOTch !!!!!!REMOVE NOSBSPAM FROM MY E-MAIL!!!!!! Spammers, here are some email addresses for your spambots: $LOGIN@localhost $LOGNAME@localhost $USER@localhost $USER@$HOST -h1024@localhost admin@loopback |
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"kayakkhan" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... Hi all, I'll take my chances here for getting flamed posting a commercial. But hey, it's subject matter related, guaranteed not to enlarge your tally wacker (well, it could, I suppose), and generally great software. Only today, for 24 hours, my satellite tracking, iridium flare predicting and earth with clouds displaying software SatWhere can be purchased for a lousy $17 from http://www.satwhere.com. The occasion: My birthday! That's 50 cents for every year I've been around, life doesn't come any cheaper than that. Enjoy everyone! - Balt Well yes , but Orbitron does all that and more, incredibly well for the measly price of a postcard. Not to mention Satscape which is also a freebie. Martin |
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Martin wrote:
"kayakkhan" wrote in message ... wrote in message groups.com... Hi all, I'll take my chances here for getting flamed posting a commercial. But hey, it's subject matter related, guaranteed not to enlarge your tally wacker (well, it could, I suppose), and generally great software. Only today, for 24 hours, my satellite tracking, iridium flare predicting and earth with clouds displaying software SatWhere can be purchased for a lousy $17 from http://www.satwhere.com. The occasion: My birthday! That's 50 cents for every year I've been around, life doesn't come any cheaper than that. Enjoy everyone! - Balt Well yes , but Orbitron does all that and more, incredibly well for the measly price of a postcard. Not to mention Satscape which is also a freebie. Martin Jentlemen !!! Thanks to this fellow I have already downloaded 2 alternative freeware packs.(i wil not even check his one). If you keep this up,I will run out of spare free time!!!!! -) -) |
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Martin wrote:
Not to mention Satscape which is also a freebie. Martin I use NOVA lately, but I will deifnitely welcome Space-track support to Satscape whenever it happens. I just got tired of using the TLE Manager/Downloader from Celestrak in order to use Satscape. Satscape's models, especially in 3D are impressive though. --D |
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SatWhere does a number of things Orbitron, NOVA and what they're all
called don't do, what comes to mind in no particular order: 1. None of them come in a 64bit edition. Satwhere does, both 32bit and 64bit. 2. None of them support multithreading. 3. None of them display a seasonal earth image with optional cloud overlay 4. None of them were approved by US Strategic Command to distribute all Kepler elements (yes, you read right! Upcoming in Version 1.3) 5. None of them give a detailed overhead sky view 6. None of them were designed for completely autonomous operation, including kepler elements refresh and last but not least, a few subjective points (after looking at the competition) 7. None of them have a professionally engineered user interface that looks halfway as nice as satwhere's. 8. None of them were developed by a software developer with my professional background. 9. None of them let you define a field of view and timespan and show you which satellites are going to fly through. This is very useful for astrophotographers for instance, trying to not get their images spoiled by satellite passes (also upcoming in 1.3). There's 9 points none of my competitors can do, most of them don't do iridium flares either (I think only orbitron does?), at the current retail price of $24.99 that's not too shabby. Cheers - Balt |
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Salut Philippe
what do you think is missing? I'm always open for suggestions. Cheers - Balt |
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Orbitron doesn't do a lot of things SatWhere does, see my post below on
the specific features. I forgot one the It doesn't only automatically download and maintain Keplers from space-track, it also downloads the latest amateur maintained classified satellite elements. Certainly, postcardware is cheaper than $24.99, the regular price I'm charging. But then again, you get what you pay for. It all depends on your expectations. SatWhere was born out of a very particular need: The autonomous operation of my HRPT receiver station (see http://www.ozabove.com) which might explain why it doesn't cater to the average satellite amateur. However, if you lend your opinion a voice rather than just a dismissive shrug, you could help making SatWhere the best there is. Tell me what it is you're missing! Cheers - Balt http://www.satwhere.com The ultimate satellite tracking and earthviewer software for $24.99 |
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wrote in message oups.com... SatWhere does a number of things Orbitron, NOVA and what they're all called don't do, what comes to mind in no particular order: Looks really nice. Can I slave my LX200 to it and use it to track and image things like the ISS ? |
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