Michael,
Set your UTC offset to -8 and Daylight Savings to Y. Also, make sure
you use all lower case on the sat names or you'll get "Satellite Not
Found". I live in Los Alamitos, if you send me your phone number direct
-Brad


>
> Thanks for the answers on the C-Sat program. Here is what I'm doing:
>
> I am performing a careful two star alignment using an illuminated eyepiece (I
> think a 12mm), my date and time is correct down to the second in both my
> lx200 and my computer.
>
> I live in Fountain Valley, CA and according to the map service liked on
> C-Sat's webb site, my Latitude is 33.7281876 and my Longitude is -117.9320602
> (I found my house). I input this into the program as 33.72820 and
> -117.93210 respectively. Should I have multiplied the decimal values by 60
> to obtain the minutes?
>
> My UTC offset is +8.0 hours and I am currently in pacific daylight time. I
> think that puts me at +9.0 hours offset from the UTC.
>
> I am using the current May, 99 "TLE" file and I still cannot obtain a single
> view.
>
> Am I missing something here?

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