Paul, Space Track offers the elements in two formats, you want the three line set, the ones with the name. I have noticed that long filenames and ones with other than the regular alphabet don't always work. Another thing to look at is that there is sometimes an extra blank line at the beginning of the Space track files. Bob
--- In [email protected], "plalbrecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must be doing something wrong with satellites. They've worked in the > past. > > I'm subscribed to Space Track, downloaded some large lists. I have to > unzip them and make sure the file type is changed from TXT to TLE, of > course. When I select those large TLEs in calendar / artificial > satellites, they don't list. > > I've tried restricting the date range, setting magnitudes to 99, > checking daytime pass, etc. Nothing. > > Is there a size limit for TLE files in CdC or Mike McCants' program > that's used to generate lists of passes? Maybe my TLEs are too big. > ALLSAT.TLE for example is 1.3 MB. (Later) No, somehow I don't think > it's size; I took a 33 KB "visible.tle" file and broke it into two > smaller files, smaller than classified.tle which works, and they still > don't work. > > I manually made a couple of very short TLE lists, for the Shuttle and > ISS, and those work fine. > > Also there seems to be some sort of bug, in which not all lines from a > previous listing are cleared out. For example, I can list passes for > classified satellites, then ask for a list for the ISS, but what > appears is a single line, for one of the classifieds. That only > happens when "daytime pass" is not checked (and there are effectively > no nighttime passes of the ISS for me for the next few days). If I > checkbox daytime passes, then ask for ISS listing, it wipes out that > leftover classified sat and lists only ISS passes as one would expect. > > Anybody have an idea what's happening? > > Pete Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
