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RE: Project DELTA...



Same guy.  Good to see some of us are still hanging around!

I'm in Pittsburgh, PA in the CMU ARPA Speech group.  I got married and have three kids and two cats.

...eric


On Saturday, March 28, 1998 9:51 PM, Bob & Cecelia [SMTP:n3lym@amsat.org] wrote:
> > Eric Thayer (eht@cs.cmu.edu)
> > Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:57:33 -0400
> >
> > Sorry for the newbie question, but hopefully someone else wanted to 
> ask
> > the same question.  Does a program exist for the PC that prints a 
> skymap
> > w/ a satellite track w/ position times?  Or better yet, a real-time
> > planetarium-type program with the satellites position against the
> > background sky noted.  I've been using quicksat, stsplus and skyglobe 
> to
> > help me find targets, but unless the object is quite bright I 
> frequently
> > miss them.
> >
> > BTW, the skies have been great here in Vermont (5-6 Aug).  I can 
> easily
> > see the Milky Way (it is usually too light polluted in Pittsburgh, PA 
> to
> > see it).  Some of the Perseid meteors have been well worth the wait 
> as
> > well.
> >
> > ...eric
> 
> I like Traksat... http://www.hsv.tis.net/~wintrak/traksat.html.
> 
> So I wonder, is this the Eric Thayer that hung around Project Delta in 
> Delaware? Trying to find folks for the big 25th anniversary reunion... 
> Please report on your life, etc.
> 
> -Bob Mader