Howdy Brent, It's been a while since I last used the program, but I was surprised to see that TLE's seem to be harder to obtain. Could you let me know where I...
First let me compliment Brent Boshart on a fine piece of software. Rarely have I encountered a program so intuitive. All the main information is gathered on...
There are plenty of programs that will plot satellites on the sky. Those would probably be better to use for this purpose than Satellite Tracker. Just find...
Yeah, I know, there are a lot of astro software packages out there. I've got 3 planetariums, and 2 observation-planners, and 2 satellite- finders on my laptop....
Hi Dan, This might help you for now: 1) Click the "Geostationary Only" option (and "elevation >"). The list will show the general cardinal directions. 2) The...
Satellite Tracker needs to know time and location very precisely in order to make accurate predictions. Not all scopes have GPS, but many of the newer Meade...
... I believe there is freeware out there that will set the time based on the scope's GPS time. ... The calculator included in Windows has a dms<->digital...
... I use Cartes du Ciel almost exclusively for charting (it has satellites) and basic scope control. That cuts down on the confusion. Now if I could just...
I had gone to the trouble of writing a little Excel spreadsheet to help DMS conversions. I didn't realize the dumb-looking M$ calculator had such a smart side...
John, Thanks for pointing out that Carte has a satellite findere in it. I use CDC all the time, for finding and for scope control, but not for satellites. Do...
I'd been doing the conversion manually for years before I found out the MS calculator had it built in. But in my case it was hms conversions. I do some...
I've never used the satellite feature in CdC, but it's been discussed many times on the CdC yahoogroup at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skychart-discussion>. ...
... and the site is in there in decimal degrees. This command can hang indefinitely with older LX200gps firmwares, if you haven't turned ON the GPS receiver...
I'm working on this change for the telescope just to do a regular goto if a geostationary satellite is to be tracked. Can anyone tell me, if you switch the...
Dan, I will look at doing a separate (free) little utility to do this that would be useful to people using software other than Satellite Tracker as well. Brent...
Hi Brent, I use SatTracker, and love it! The short answer is yes. The longer answer is, I use a program called LX200 Park, by Chris Peterson, and, when I...
In my experience, the LX200 GPS keeps its alignment nicely as I switch back and forth several times between TARGETS --> ASTRONOMICAL and TARGETS -->...
... But if a person searches on keyword "geosynchronous" in that group, a thread is shown where people reach the conclusion CdC cannot plot geosats! Drat! I...
Dan, If I have clear skies tonight I'm going to play around with this. Honestly, I've never paid much attention to geosats. Can you suggest a few that you know...
Hi Dan, I've just started exploring a program that may well give you what you want. It's a "cardware" program called Orbitron, written by Sebastian Stoff of...
... I have observed several, but I was not able to identify them, and they were dim -- like, mag 11 or 12. I don't know enough about geosats to predict when...
Messing around with Autostar II, I remembered a person could theoretically use Meade's little ASU Windows program to retrieve ephemerides of comets, asteroids,...
Dan, Try this http://www.heavenscape.com/beta/sat.exe Implemented for the LX200GPS only, when you click "Start Tracking" and it's a geosat, it sets the scope...
Just out of curiosity, what happens if you try a non-geo satellite with the Autostar? "Elements expired" indicates either the file is stale (something went...
Morning all I have been following the discussion on observing objects at geostationary satellite distances with interest. Although I do not use Brents program...
... No, they use Celestrak. (or they did last week, and Celestrak is still "in business") ... If you have a fresh set of TLE's for geosats (the LX200gps will...
Hello ! I just joined the group. I have a 10in LX200 Classic and I am very interested in imaging the ISS and other interesting man made objects in Earth...
Paul, I also have a 10" LX200 (and an old laptop PIII 450 Mhz) and you should be just fine. Important tips: 1) Get the most up to date TLE for the ISS. 2) I...
Thanks for the advice Doug! What are teh vews like of the ISS through the eyepiece? Do you use a barlow and what power eyepiece do you prefer for this task? ...
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