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Neat satelite and location site

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:50 am
by zaxrex
http://www.heavens-above.com/
Has a huge database listing for location of cities around the world. I found it while trying to get Lat Long coordinates for obscure European cities.

Gives you a sky watcher guide to satelites and "flares" to look for as the pass over. Also constelation info as well as amature radio downling freqs for a bunch of setelites.

And a year later, I am vindicated

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:45 pm
by zaxrex
OK it has been almost a year since I have stubled onto this. Now MAKE has too. If you don't have your vol 3 yet, just look 1/3 the way down on MAKE magazine.

Don't forget to subscribe.[/url]

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:27 pm
by ElZorro
And keep in mind that maps.google.com has satellite images for large parts of Europe.

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:59 pm
by Sabre
Awesome find :)

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:17 pm
by zaxrex
Can I borrow your vol2 Julian? I need to make the marshmallow gun.

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:22 pm
by Mr Kleen
don't they make the back issues available in PDF to subscribers? I really need to remember to subscribe to this magazine...

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:40 pm
by zaxrex
I'm subscribing today, so I'll know for the future. Just in case, I need to shoot things...

I have an old paintball gun that I would love to modify to make a fully auto stay puff gun

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:42 pm
by Sabre
Sure, I can bring it with me on Thursday :)