Does the site at gjullien.fr/satellite.htm still work for anyone? Wanting to use the moon to find a satellite

[ancient]

The site at Place satellite dish using sun or moon used to allow you to "use sun or moon to choose the best place for your satellite antenna." While there are (I think) other sites that will let you use the sun, that was the only one I knew of that would let you use the moon. It used to display an animation of the globe, with the relative positions of the sun and/or moon and a satellite (as viewed from a specified location) shown. The site is still there, but I think the problem was it required Java, which almost no one uses anymore. So we set up a VM and installed Java but it still does not seem to work, and I wondered if it still works for anyone. It will still let you enter your coordinates, but for me it then just sits there doing nothing, and the globe animation is never displayed.

The main reason I am interested in this is that the sun can only be used during spring and fall solar outage times, but the moon tends to get near any specific satellite several months out of the year (hopefully during nighttime hours). Are there any other sites (or desktop applications for that matter) that let you track when the moon will be close to a specified satellite as viewed from your geographic location?

 

[primestar31]

The site at Place satellite dish using sun or moon used to allow you to "use sun or moon to choose the best place for your satellite antenna." While there are (I think) other sites that will let you use the sun, that was the only one I knew of that would let you use the moon. It used to display an animation of the globe, with the relative positions of the sun and/or moon and a satellite (as viewed from a specified location) shown. The site is still there, but I think the problem was it required Java, which almost no one uses anymore. So we set up a VM and installed Java but it still does not seem to work, and I wondered if it still works for anyone. It will still let you enter your coordinates, but for me it then just sits there doing nothing, and the globe animation is never displayed.

The main reason I am interested in this is that the sun can only be used during spring and fall solar outage times, but the moon tends to get near any specific satellite several months out of the year (hopefully during nighttime hours). Are there any other sites (or desktop applications for that matter) that let you track when the moon will be close to a specified satellite as viewed from your geographic location?

It works for me just fine in Firefox. However, click the box and read this post I made a month ago:

Post in thread 'Aligning motorized dish without Zenith sat'

May 5, 2025

This may seem like an exercise in self-inflicted headaches, and I haven't found any info on this, but here goes:
My location isn't great for "looking" at my southernmost sat, which is 82W. I pretty much can't put my C band dish where it can see that part of the arc due to trees (well I could but it'd be 5' off the road, no thanks). For Ku it's not as bad, I can put a motorized dish to see 82W, but it wouldn't see anything west of 110W at best. For C band I chose the location of the pole where I can see 97W-135W (possibly 139W, again, trees). Maybe in the winter I could see to...

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