Creating A New Module; Predicting Satellite Passes; Upcoming Passes For A Satellite; Figure 2.8: Satellite Popup - Mitsubishi SRRM25ZE User Manual

Getting Started with Gpredict

2.4 Creating a New Module

In order to create a new module, select File → New Module in the menu
bar. This will bring up the same dialogue as you saw while customising an
existing module in the previous section (see figure 2.5), except that here
you have to enter a new name for the module.
Besides the name you will also need to select the observer location and the
satellites you wish to track with the new module. Of course, you can also
customise the new module as described in the previous section.
When you are finished, click OK and the new module will open in the
notebook.

2.5 Predicting Satellite Passes

2.5.1 Upcoming Passes for a Satellite

In order to predict satellite passes occurring in the
near future, you have to right-click on a satellite in
any view. This brings up a pop-up menu for the
selected satellite, and in this pop-up menu you can
select either the Show next pass or the Future
passes menu item. Figure 2.8 shows how the
satellite pop-up menu looks like when you right
click on a satellite in the map view. The satellite
popup for other views look slightly different;
Figure 2.8: Satellite
however, there will always be two menu items for
popup.
predicting the upcoming passes.
The Show next pass function gives you detailed
information on the first coming pass including the
azimuth, elevation, range and footprint during the
course of the pass. The data is shown in a table as well as on a polar and an
Az/El plot, see figure 2.9. You can configure gpredict to show other data in
this dialogue, select Edit → Preferences and go to the Predict → Single
Pass page. Section 5.1 contains more details on how to customise and fine-
tune the future pass prediction engine.
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