[time-nuts] GPS Arctic graphs

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Aug 27 06:54:06 EDT 2017


Elevation vs time for several satellites, 24 hours
  http://users.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/time-nuts/Arctic/Elev-A.png

Polar plot of the same satellites.
  http://users.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/time-nuts/Arctic/Polar-A.png

(see if I get this right)
The satellites go around twice per day.  Relative to the peak of the first 
orbit, the Earth (and receiver) has rotated 180 degrees so the second peak is 
over the pole.

Elevation vs time for a single satellite
  http://users.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/time-nuts/Arctic/Elev-07.png
That shows how far the satellite orbit drifts over 4 days.

Polar plot of all 31 active satellites, 24 hours
  http://users.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/time-nuts/Arctic/Polar-all.png
SVN 04 wasn't active.



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