On Sunday night around 2AM EST I was trying to find Pluto (RA: 17h 14m 35.32s & Dec: -13° 27' 35.4") in the constellation Ophiuchus when I observed a very...
You'll have to give us your location to have much chance of identifying this. -John ... _________________________________________________________________ Tired...
Hi John, I was at the Atlanta Astronomy Club's dark-sky site near Blairsville, GA in the N. Ga mountains. The Latitude/Longitude coordinates are: 34° 55'...
Thanks Ron, Can you direct me to where I can find the TLE's? I want to plug these in my star mapping program and see if the TLE gives me a pass through the...
Get the alldat tle file from Mike McCants at <http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/tles/index.html>. FWIW I tried these two satellites in Sat Tracker with your...
Thanks John, I found the file and downloaded it. I'll try these on my Sky Map Pro software and compare against the star field that I observed. Dallas...
Besides your site (which you provided), a vague idea of the -direction- of travel of the satellite would help. And, if you followed it for some time, how many...
Hi Dick, Offline, Ron Lee provided me a chart, and since then I've plotted the two likely objects. It turns out it was probably 23669, moving about 10 arc...
Hi I have loaded tracker into my laptop and am using v 4.4mc on scope. I am having problems from the git go. Guess I'm a little slow on the uptake for this....
Check your time and location carefully. If you're in the western hemisphere, longitude and time zone should both be negative. And of course make sure the...
Don't know if this applies, but as I recall, the program does not automatically compensates for daylight saving time. For example, if you're in the Eastern...
Hi John, Just returned from a camping trip and really enjoyed the transit movie. Congrats on the Spaceweather.com link, as well. You have given us all a great...
Hi Dave, Thanks for the comments , glad you enjoyed the pics :O) My next task is to capture ISS , in daylight , without the transit.....not easy , but I think...
Does anyone know of a source for ISS daylight pass predictions? Heavens Above only shows nighttime passes. I am thinking of leaving my LX200 GPS powered up...
You can set the time ahead on Satellite Tracker and make predictions for up to six hours at a time. Not quite as convienient as heavens above, but it would...
The batch predict has a 6hr limitation. If you select ISS and use the "Predict Pass" button, it will show the next 24hr (you can choose to show daylight...
Hi John, This is an interesting concept.....I never use auto tracking , so catching ISS in daylight is almost impossible when manually guiding the scope. ...
John Locker, I wrote a moon and sun transit prediction program some years ago in hopes of catching what you recorded. If you don't mind I would like to email...
John - I don't know which Meade you have but my 12" LX200GPS will track satellites with ease. If your Meade does not have tracking capabilities a simple way to...
I use Satellite Tracker on a 12" LX200 that is permanently mounted, with a good polar alignment and a well tuned mount, and the software is usually able to...
Thanks for the suggestions re tracking in daylight etc. I'm using the LX90 8 inch , and autostar will track sats with reasonable accuracy in a 25 or 40 mm...
I'm new to the satellite tracking hobby and have a question about magnification. I have a 10" LX200 GPS that I'm using and I'm coupling a sony video camara to...
As a relative newcomer myself, others may have better advice, but my experience might be worth sharing. The first few times out I saw nothing. It took a while...
Thanks for the input Tim, any help I can get from folks with some experience is appreciated. As for a joy stick, I've seen quit a few posts mentioning use of a...
First, definitely get used to using SatTracker visually before trying to image a moving target. And there's no need to bother with leapfrog. That's just...
Thanks again for your help with this. I'll get out this weekend and see how well I can handle tracking a satellite. It sounds like it will be challenging (I...
Any typical computer gaming joystick will work. One word of advice on that- the motion directions on the joystick are non-intuitive- the timing adjustment is...
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