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Positions of geostationary satellites are wrong.

Posted: 25.02.2005, 02:06
by Tomasz M. Bladyniec
Did you notice that all geostationary satellites from Thomas Gullipain's add-on are in wrong places over the Earth? I believe such satellites as Astra or Eutelsat (well-known European TV satellites) should be over the Europe, chinese-named ones - over China and Brasilsat over Brasil... Im affraid everything is in wrong place :( And it can't be Celestia orbit algorithms' fault, because geo satellites are synchornised with Earth and have no eccentricity etc. :(
I have noticed that everything is repositioned in 90 grades. Do you know how to simply replace all of them in proper places in the sky?

Posted: 25.02.2005, 12:38
by selden
Tomasz,

You should consider contacting Thomas directly and asking him. He hasn't posted anything here for a long time and may not see your question. A revised catalog might be appropriate.