What happens when the satellite crosses the meridian with AP mounts? Usually the mount will automatically change the telescope to the other side of the mount...
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Philip Masding
philip.masding@...
Sep 3, 2001 7:13 pm
Dirk, Everyone I'm glad to see someone managed to get pictures of STS105. As Mike mentioned I tried but failed. The telescope was several degrees from the ISS...
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Brent Boshart
brentb@...
Sep 3, 2001 10:56 pm
Andrew, I have never tested an AP scope live myself so I can't answer your questions for sure. 1) Satellite Tracker sends a series of set object coords. and go...
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andrewj@...
Sep 4, 2001 6:33 am
Brent, If you do a GOTO on the AP mounts and you cross the meridian the mount will move the scope to the other side so that the scope is always higher than the...
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Tobias Lindemann
TobiasLindemann@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:58 pm
Brent, we have tried out the new version with finer increments on "normal" satellites. It works very good. I can move the field of view very smooth with the...
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dirk.ewers@...
Sep 6, 2001 7:47 am
Philip and Mike, The TLE's I use are from Celestrak, the file of 08. 14. 2001 is attached to this mail, if you want to compare it with your's. I don't you use...
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Philip Masding
philip.masding@...
Sep 14, 2001 10:07 pm
Hi everyone, Mike and I have now completed a Virtual Reality Simulator for the ISS ( and in fact any satellite with known TLE's ). This means you can produce a...
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koolie99@...
Sep 15, 2001 2:49 am
How goes the battle with that celestron ? Getting it figured out yet? kelly....
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koolie99@...
Sep 15, 2001 3:11 am
I have recently made a 16in f4.5 dob. It is a truss tube design,and it rides on teflon pads. I was thinking of making it a "satellite tracker" or just giving...
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James Lerch
jlerch1@...
Sep 15, 2001 2:55 pm
Kelly You need to check out this site by Mel Bartels, http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~mbartels/altaz/altaz.html or browse thru the archive of messages at scope-drive...
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bobrose500@...
Sep 16, 2001 2:31 am
Kelly Also check out http://people.txucom.net/bedair/ScopeStuff.html bob rose...
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david@...
Sep 20, 2001 2:40 am
I have put together some serial cables that let you connect your Autostar #495 or #497 to your PC for software downloads, object downloads, or PC control of...
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Tobias Lindemann
TobiasLindemann@...
Sep 20, 2001 5:50 pm
Hi Phil, Thanx for this great software, but something doesn't work on my computer. I have IE 5.5 and the cosmo player. When I click on the >simulate< button it...
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G6GAK - Mike Tyrrell
g6gak@...
Sep 20, 2001 9:23 pm
Tobias, Glad that you've tried the software out. You are correct than when you press the simulate button and say yes to the run the active-X then a new iss.wrl...
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koolie99@...
Sep 25, 2001 1:24 am
Thanks James. I found your web page very thought provoking. That is an excellent idea using metal epoxy for a drive gear(ill have to try that one), also I...
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James Lerch
jlerch1@...
Sep 25, 2001 1:20 pm
Kelly, No backlash in the gear train, but I erred on the shaft that connects the Az drive wheel to the ground board, its only 5/16" in diameter and flexes...
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t@...
Sep 26, 2001 3:56 am
A couple questions if you don't mind. The gps add on...I am totally new to gps...don't even have one yet. but intend to...my question is, I have an lx200 8"...
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t@...
Sep 26, 2001 3:58 am
Also any recommendations for a good gps?..t...
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tomdiederich@...
Sep 26, 2001 6:29 am
You can't align the scope with the GPS, but you can update the current position and time of the scope. You still need to do a one or two star align. Even the...
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Tobias Lindemann
TobiasLindemann@...
Sep 26, 2001 11:55 am
hi Phil, you are right. The regional settings was the problem. Now it works very good. I have not enough time to test it on our observations now, but I send...
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t@...
Sep 27, 2001 2:48 am
thanks Tom..will look into that gps and thanks for the info...am still new to my lx...but love it..t...
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seas909ml@...
Oct 6, 2001 4:39 am
I use two computers with satellite tracker. Is there any way to merge the observation log from one computer with the log from another computer? I wish to...
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Brent Boshart
brentb@...
Oct 7, 2001 1:18 am
To merge the two files: 1. Make a backup copy of both obslog.dat files. 2. Rename one log file, say obslog.da2 and place it in the lxsat folder with the other...
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N. Foldager
nf@...
Oct 8, 2001 2:11 pm
... That is true; I've tested it. However, the recently released version 3.0 of the keypad software let you move the meridian up to 6 hours east or west. After...
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Brent Boshart
brentb@...
Oct 9, 2001 12:06 pm
Version 2.2.1 of Satellite Tracker is now available for download. An interface for Celestron Ultima 2000 and NexStarGPS telescopes is now included. No other...
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G6GAK - Mike Tyrrell
g6gak@...
Oct 13, 2001 10:16 am
Hello again from Manachester, The past couple of nights have provided some opportunity for ISS videos but we have been plagued with technical problems having...
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Brent Boshart
brentb@...
Oct 13, 2001 1:37 pm
Mike, The TLE I prefer is http://www.celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/visual.txt It is always very up to date and I get good results with it. To assess the age of...
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bradtest1@...
Oct 14, 2001 3:54 am
Mike McCants' page is at: http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/tles/index.html Is this where you were looking? I just downloaded highdrag.zip and mccants.zip with...
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G6GAK - Mike Tyrrell
g6gak@...
Oct 14, 2001 4:28 pm
Hi Brent, Thanks for the tip on T+epoch - I'd missed this feature! It would still be useful to have the date decoded on the other page though as sometimes...
Finally after several frustrating nights of equipment problems we got some decent video footage tonight of the early evening ISS pass. We should have also had...
