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Gpredict satellite tracking application
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How to turn off satellite ground visibility circles and satellite names in Map View #335

Open olav6 opened 1 year ago

olav6 commented 1 year ago

Hello! I've made a new github account just to ask this question:

I use Gpredict to see all of Starlink satellites but when I do that, I get the result as shown in the attached image. It's a bit confusing. How do I turn off the satellite ground visibility circles and satellite names off in the Map View? I'd like to see the satellites as dots instead. Gpredict 2.3.115-0f3be on Linux.

gpredict with starlinks

Thanks!

olav6 commented 1 year ago

I see that this has been asked before and that it's called ground footprint, not "satellite ground visibility circles". https://github.com/csete/gpredict/issues/242#issue-771374438

olav6 commented 1 year ago

I thought you guys might get a kick out of this.

After my last post, I realized I didn't have all of the Starlink satellites loaded up so I added all of them. One at a time. That took me a while. Being able to multi-select the satellites would have been greatly appreciated here. It also took gpredict a while to chew on that many satellites. About 15 minutes or so. Here is what the result looks like.

The Map View. gpredit all of starlinks

The Sky View. gpredict skyview with all of starlinks

I do not know how to get the total number of satellites loaded in gpredict. According to this webpage, https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?GROUP=starlink&FORMAT=tle , there are 4,550 Starlink entries so I am assuming that is how many I have loaded up in gpredict. Yes, gpredit is a little laggy. It's not too bad with the refresh rate set to 60 seconds. I thought you guys might like to know that gpredict can handle this many satellites.

So... can we have the option to have the satellites be represented as a dot in the Map View? :-D

csete commented 9 months ago

Thanks for the info @olav6. Tracking so many satellites at the same time wasn't an issue when I initially wrote gpredict 20 years ago. I will see what I can do to improve, both the tracking and the visuals :-)