Re: Need A Data Visualization/Graphing Program

2016-01-12 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Oh, if you have an iPhone or iPad (or iPod Touch), there's the $9.99 GoSatWatch, which ought to be easier than crunching numbers and more portable than something on a laptop. > On Jan 12, 2016, at 06:57, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > STK is _the_ commercial satellite tracking program, advanc

Re: Need A Data Visualization/Graphing Program

2016-01-12 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
STK is _the_ commercial satellite tracking program, advanced versions do everything (look angle, coverage, maneuvering info, everything); but it's expensive (although there's a free license for a limited version), it only runs on Windows, and they will send you email forever. Within MacPorts, t

Re: Need A Data Visualization/Graphing Program

2016-01-11 Thread Adam Dershowitz
I second gnuplot. It does particularly well with time (hours:min, days, months etc) while Excel quickly becomes a lesson in frustration! On January 11, 2016 1:03:04 PM EST, Clemens Lang wrote: >On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 09:57:02PM -0500, Charles Phillips wrote: >> Right now I use Numbers for some

Re: Need A Data Visualization/Graphing Program

2016-01-11 Thread Clemens Lang
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 09:57:02PM -0500, Charles Phillips wrote: > Right now I use Numbers for some, and have struggled with Excel. I > need a flexible program that allows me to enter some columns of data > (perigee, apogee, inclination, etc) and graph them again time of the > orbital description

Re: Need A Data Visualization/Graphing Program

2016-01-10 Thread David Nicholls
Charles, I just checked with the programmer and he's happy let wider information out about his plotting application, Graf. It's a proper Mac app, not a macport install. Sorry, no manual at present but the help file is useful: miocene.anu.edu.au/Graf It's a ph

Re: Need A Data Visualization/Graphing Program

2016-01-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Charles Phillips < char...@spaceflightresearch.net> wrote: > looked in the "Math" category and have not managed to find anything. > MacPorts does not have a way to search for "graphing utilities" that I have > found?? > > I briefly tried to use a neat program calle

Re: Need A Data Visualization/Graphing Program

2016-01-10 Thread Mitchell Maltenfort
Install R and its Ggplot2 package? On Sunday, January 10, 2016, Charles Phillips < char...@spaceflightresearch.net> wrote: > All - > > This is probably a simple question to answer, but I have not stumbled > across the answer yet. > > I have installed GPredict (satellite tracking program) on a num

Need A Data Visualization/Graphing Program

2016-01-10 Thread Charles Phillips
All -This is probably a simple question to answer, but I have not stumbled across the answer yet. I have installed GPredict (satellite tracking program) on a number of Mac computers (starting with my Powerbook G4 and most lately on my Mac Mini and my MacBook Pro) and have been looking for a progr