It now can put out ground tracks as well as more detailed tracking information. Just a few more lines of code.
ARISS will be visible from grid CM87ux starting in 01:36:47 at 23:08:11 23:08:11 +0.0° 210.7° ? 21.8°N 132.1°W AOS 23:09:00 +3.4° 207.9° ? 24.2°N 130.0°W 23:10:00 +8.5° 202.5° ? 27.0°N 127.2°W 23:11:00 +15.8° 192.4° ? 29.8°N 124.3°W 23:12:00 +26.4° 170.1° ? 32.5°N 121.2°W 23:12:51 +32.2° 132.9° ? 34.8°N 118.4°W MAX 23:13:00 +31.8° 125.4° ? 35.2°N 117.9°W 23:14:00 +22.3° 88.7° ? 37.7°N 114.4°W 23:15:00 +13.0° 72.4° ? 40.1°N 110.6°W 23:16:00 +6.7° 64.6° ? 42.3°N 106.5°W 23:17:00 +2.0° 60.2° ? 44.4°N 102.1°W 23:17:31 +0.0° 58.7° ? 45.3°N 99.7°W LOS
P.S. Sigh, wordpress is apparently working very hard to get rid of the Unicode characters I nicely output. To the right of the azimuth/elevation should appear a sequence of arrows to indicate if you should look north, south, east or west. When I run this on my terminal, I get:
I’ll have to work on deciding whether this Unicode stuff is worth the trouble. Probably not.