Over the past few months we have been working on producing smoother video of entire ISS passes. This has been achieved with some new software which Phil has...
Last month we had some good ISS-passes. Because we had optimized our installation, we had more frames to analyse. This took more time, but also results in...
The NexStarGPS and NexStar 5 protocols are different, it will not work. I do have beta-version for the NexStar 5/8. Unfortunately, I do not have access to...
Tobias, Great pictures! - look forward to seeing the animations. What did you think of the video from Ron Dantowitz? I think he seems to capture finer detail...
Tobias, Once again some very good pictures ! I was wondering what you have done to improve your set up ? Also how do you generate your animation stills ? They...
Hi! Since I recently purchased a Meade 10" LX200 f6.3 telescope, I have for sale an 8" Celestron w/Starbright coating and Byers drive. I am asking for $650.00...
Phil, Mike, ... I am not sure if there is some misunderstanding. With the "installation" I meant the telescope and the other equipment. I am also not sure if...
All I have recently been trying to get an image of something other than the ISS which might show some detail. Here is a link to an image of Envisat which is a...
Phil, very good picture! We have also tried to track Envisat, but never seen any detail. Good to see that it is possible to see details. So we will try to...
Tobias, This link has a diagram telling me all I need to know to add Envisat to the simulator and I don't think it will be too difficult. I just hope the...
Phil, From what I can gather, in flight, the major spacecraft longitudinal axis (the X-axis) is normal to the orbit plane, the Y-axis is closely aligned to the...
Paul Thanks for your help. I now have enough information to include Envisat in my simulator. So now I'll find out if it matches my image. Phil ... From: Paul...
Phil, We did another animation, flying around the spacecraft as it goes through a single orbit. This provides a perspective to understand the attitude. ...
Has anyone interfaced some sort of autoguider with the satellite tracker software so that satellites not appearing in the center of the eyepiece can have the...
I have been able to center up a sat and watch it for 5 min or more or have a line of people look at it thru eyepiece. with a mobile set up! For the price of...
From Bill Powers -- ... Well, I've been doing it for less than $200. About $100 for a 0.05-lux B/W video camera and power supply, $15 for a 105-mm F:2 zoom...
I had an idea similar to the one Bill Powers described, and I thought I'd "run it up the flagpole", more or less. I picked up an Intel QX3 USB Microscope for...
Bill sounds really neat! Permanent setup nice. Do you have a web site describing system? Lots of cable between scope and CPU ??? what brand(s) camera(s)??? I...
Bill, Very interest to hear about your work - sounds like a great system! Have you tried it on polar orbiting satellites e.g. Envisat? These are a lot more...
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Hello, Mike -- ... Tried it once, and I had left the very dense green filter (used for ISS and still not enough) on the main-telescope video camera. So I got...
... conmputer ... to the ... information ... so ... clicks ... pattern ... boresighting ... eyepiece, but ... less. ... camera to ... eyepiece) ... though I ...
The main reason a satellite does not STAY centered is not necessarily because of PEC or elset problems. Don't forget that during the pass the scope is pointing...
I was out observing in early May when the ESA launched an Ariane rocket, bringing the Spot5 satellite into orbit. I happened upon this observation, I didn't...
My new 12" LX200 GPS is scheduled to arrive this coming week. I have decided to purchase a used PC laptop (my Mac laptop is not compatible). Does anyone know...
... The processor speed has very little to do with it. RAM is the main contender. I've run Satellite Tracker on a P133 with 32Mb ram - no problem, just don't...
... What's an EGP? ... Not exactly an autoguider but cam be made one very easily, see http://www.electrim.com They sell computer cameras - not video cameras...
