[amsat-bb] A couple of tracking API's under test now on www.amsat.org

[Joseph B. Fitzgerald]

I was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus with my kid today for transfer student orientation.   I played hooky from the family and friends tour when I discovered that we did not get to visit anything interesting like the steam plant,   They were supposed to feed us, but I was busy cutting code.  Somebody owes me lunch at the next Symposium.

Use www.amsat.org/track/api/v1/passes.php?objects<http://www.amsat.org/track/api/v1/passes.php?objects> to get a list of object name/object number pairs.

Select a name from the list returned from above and use a Maidenhead grid square to specify the location.    This will give you summary info on the next 10 passes for that location.
www.amsat.org/track/api/v1/passes.php?location=II42&object=ISS<http://www.amsat.org/track/api/v1/passes.php?location=fn42&object=ISS>

de KM1P Joe