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Where is Baikonur? The russian launch "city"?

The city of Leninsk has this longlat:
LongLat [ 59.87 54.9 0 ]

While Linuxm@an uses this longlat in his Back to USSR add-ons:
LongLat [63.3 45.7 0]

- Which is a lot further east.

Also,
As far as i know, Baikonur has had two different "official" locations because of the secrecy during the cold war. Is any of the above correct?

Anyobody know more about this? I need a longlat for the origin of an Energia launch XYZ trajectory for the Buran flight of 1988.

- rthorvald

Have you seen this site Runar?

Click HERE.

BobHegwood wrote:Have you seen this site.

Hey, thank you! Everything i need

- rthorvald

rthorvald wrote:

BobHegwood wrote:Have you seen this site.

Hey, thank you! Everything i need

- rthorvald

Well I'll be damned...

You mean I did something right for a change?

rthorvald wrote:Where is Baikonur? The russian launch "city"?

The city of Leninsk has this longlat:
LongLat [ 59.87 54.9 0 ]

While Linuxm@an uses this longlat in his Back to USSR add-ons:
LongLat [63.3 45.7 0]

- Which is a lot further east.

Also,
As far as i know, Baikonur has had two different "official" locations because of the secrecy during the cold war. Is any of the above correct?

Anyobody know more about this? I need a longlat for the origin of an Energia launch XYZ trajectory for the Buran flight of 1988.

- rthorvald

Well, if everyone knew his/her Celestia well, and spoke a tad of Kazakh then localization of that town with my 40000+ localizations file had been trivial



We really don't need another piece of software to find that town . The coordinates given by Bob's reference are actually pretty inaccurate...

Bye Fridger

t00fri wrote:We really don't need another piece of software to find that town . The coordinates given by Bob's reference are actually pretty inaccurate...

Bye Fridger

Sure, sure... Let me think that I did GOOD, then just smash my hopes
all to hell. What a guy you are Doctor.

Here is a slightly bigger sized environment of that remote town.

Bob Hegwood wrote:What a guy you are Doctor.

Should be rephrased into

What a great program Celestia is!

Incidentally, at night one can also make out the "double" localization of Baykonur done at Soviet times for reasons of secrecy.

Runar wrote:As far as i know, Baikonur has had two different "official" locations because of the secrecy during the cold war. Is any of the above correct?

The second part of Baykonur is located at the river south of the name tag.


Bye Fridger

Fridger,
Could you please post the longlat?
The locations file i have here (world_locations_small.ssc), which is the most detailed i know of, does not list it, or the file is corrupted, it might be, there are a lots of weird characters in some names). Alternately, tell me where to find the locs file you have...

Thanks,
- rthorvald

rthorvald wrote:Fridger,
Could you please post the longlat?
The locations file i have here (world_locations_small.ssc), which is the most detailed i know of, does not list it, or the file is corrupted, it might be, there are a lots of weird characters in some names). Alternately, tell me where to find the locs file you have...

Thanks,
- rthorvald

So you don't have my old, importance weighted, 41245- town locations file in use??

WoW!

It's for download in this forum since many years, called
earth-Gazetteer-intl.ssc,

http://www.celestiaproject.net/forum/viewtopic ... erintl+ssc

if you want to have the towns with native lettering and syntax.

LongLat [ 63.29 45.64 0 ]

I have it now

Thank you.

- rthorvald