AbstractThe photographic plate provides a medium of measurement recording, from which it is possible to work out the directions to the satellite positions. This medium contains not only the field of reference points in the form of numerous breaks in the star tracks, but also the new points in the shape of the interrupted satellite tracks or the records of the light flashes of the satellites. Emphasis will be laid on that method which uses the broken satellite track, because its calculation procedure covers those of all other recording methods. Along with this photographic record there is the other record of time readings by means of which the individual observations are referred to World Time (UT2).