Locate Satellite at the time of TLE

[ghost]

Hi, I was wondering about the way how can I get the location of a satellite at the time of it's TLE? (i.e. I am not interested in modelling the orbital trajectory, rather just the location when the TLE was recorded. Thanks.

[ghost]

Hi Eric, I tried to run the examples on that repository but I could not. BR, H

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[tinvaan]

Poking this thread for the benefit of future readers. Can someone correct me if I'm wrong?

I understand this can be achieved by just passing in a timestamp to the observe() method. If this is supported as shown below, can we close this issue?

>>> qth = (37.771034, 122.413815, 7)
>>> tle = """
      ISS (ZARYA)
      1 25544U 98067A   19249.04864348  .00001909  00000-0  40858-4 0  9990
      2 25544  51.6464 320.1755 0007999  10.9066  53.2893 15.50437522187805
   """

>>> sat = predict.observe(tle.strip(), qth, 1488873372.0)
>>> print(sat.get('latitude'), sat.get('longitude'))
(-16.690541322246986, 60.823185873788056)