Satfinder Portable v1.2.1 – locate satellites in the sky
If you are curious about astronomy and is rather interested with artificial satellites, then this homebrew program is probably for you. Pedro J has just released version 1.2.1 of Satfinder Portable.
In a nut shell, this is a tool to locate hundreds of satellites in the sky that can be seen with the naked eye. But it can do a lot more than that. See all its features after the jump!
Download: Satfinder Portable v1.2.1
Homebrew developer Pedro J has just released a new PlayStation Portable application called Satfinder Portable. The program is currently in version 1.2.1 and is compatible with both the PSP FAT and PSP Slim & Lite.
Basically, Satfinder Portable is a tool to locate in the sky hundreds of satellites that can be seen with the naked eye making it a nice follow-up to the International Space Station or ISS.
The program’s features include:
- To determine the current position of artificial satellites and if they can be seen by the observer.
- To determine the current position of the stars, the sun and moon in the sky. We can use them for finding the satellites in the sky.
- To determine the position of constellations.
- To determine when will be the next times you will be able to see the International Space Station (ISS) in your hometown, drawing the path the ISS will follow in the sky.
- To determine which satellites are visible in the next half an hour.
- To determine the precise moment when the Sun and Moon raise and set.
- To determine when the moon phases will happen: 1st quarter, full, 3rd quarter and new.
- To determine the night starts and ends..
- To have a world map with all satellites drawn at their current position, showing up for each one if it is eclipsed or not by the Earth, and the path the ISS will follow during the next hour.
- To listen to an voice assistant that notify us important events, letting us not to keep seeing the PSP screen all the time. These are this events:
- The dusk and dawn, to know from when we can start looking for satellites and when not.
- The emergence of a new satellite above 0, 30, 60 and 80 degrees of elevation when there is no one with higher elevation. It is useful for long waiting times in the absence of satellites, which we can look away from the screen and wait while we look at the sky.
- The appearance and disappearance of the ISS, in addition to the time when it reaches its maximum elevation.
- In each notification also is said in what direction we should look: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW and UP are the possible directions.
- Sunrises and sunset. Moonrises and moonsets. There are two notifications, the first one few minutes before and the second one just when it will happen.
- It has an installer for the PC that help us to easily install the application on our PSP, taking into account the type of firmware installed, searching the corresponding directory. It is called Satfinder Updater.
- Change the SatFinder settings:
- The possibility of changing the location of the observer using the installer (permanent change), or directly using the options menu in the PSP (temporary change).
- Ability to switch between day and night vision.
- Possibility of configuring the colors for night vision and for the daytime.
- Possibility of enabling and disabling the elements to represent in the sky (Sun and Moon, stars, satellites, constellations).
- Possibility of configuring the number of stars to be shown changing the magnitude limit.
- Possibility of using automatic magnitude limit adjustments.
Download: Satfinder Portable v1.2.1
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