[Kstars-devel] Re: [PATCH] Complete rewrite of satellites tracking system

[Jérôme SONRIER]

Le jeudi 7 avril 2011, Akarsh Simha a écrit :
> As long as it gives accurate results, as checked against say,
> www.heavens-above.com I have nothing against your changes.

I have already checked results against "predict" :
- if I initialize the same time directly in the code of predict and 
kstars, the two positions are almost the same (only a few centimeters 
between the 2 positions)
- if I let kstars and predict manage the current time, I get the same 
result with a lag of a few seconds (kstars give the same result as 
predict but 7 or 8 sedonds after)

I don't know if this difference comes from the current time given by 
kstars or if I made a mistake somwhere. I will try to fix this later. 
Anyway I think it is accurate enough to observe a satellite or check 
that a satellite will not go into the field of your photo.


-- 
Jérôme SONRIER
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