User registration is a new option offered by Heavens-Above, which we encourage all
our visitors to take advantage of. It is free of charge,
confidential, and registered users can access a number of advanced new features
with many more to come.
Of course, if you choose not to register, all the familiar features will still
be available to you as an anonymous user. You can click
here for some tips on getting the most out of the
site as an anonymous user.
Here is a short list of the current benefits of registration;
- You can define several observing sites and the coordinates and time
zones will be retrieved from our database each time you logon. So if you have several
places from which you regularly observe, you don't have to keep re-entering the
coordinates when travelling from one to the other. Also, if you want to set-up a temporary site
for your holiday destination, you don't have to delete your home site to do so.
In addition, several other new features are expected to be available soon, and some of
these include;
- Enter your own observations of satellites into our database. These observations
can help the amateur satellite observer community to keep track of satellites for which
orbital data is not available from NASA.
- Select a list of your favourite satellites and either obtain a special set of predictions
just for them, or have them included in the "all visible satellites" prediction.
- We intend to make it easy for registered users to configure the prediction parameters
to suit themselves. For example, it will be possible to set your own magnitude cut-off and
search period.
Any information you enter will be treated strictly confidentially, and we will not pass on
any personal information to third parties. It is not even necessary to enter
personal information to register, just choose a user name and password which can be
anything you wish.
Registration requires cookies to be enabled on your browser, which is usually the
default setting. If you choose not to enable cookies, you must use Heavens-Above
as an anonymous user.
Click here to register now!
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