bgottula
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2 years ago This might be useful, either to use as a dependency or as a reference for our own implementation: https://pypi.org/project/satellitetle/
Open bgottula opened 4 years ago
bgottula
commented
2 years ago This might be useful, either to use as a dependency or as a reference for our own implementation: https://pypi.org/project/satellitetle/
The current approach to gathering TLEs for tracking is scraping the Heavens Above website. This does work, but is not ideal since it is rather slow. This has gotten worse lately since there are typically many dozens of Starlink satellites visible on any given night. Find a good way to download TLEs in bulk from Celestrak or elsewhere and rely on Heavens Above only to select which ones are worth trying to track.
Think this through so that picking objects to track is quick and easy in the field.