I may be conceiving the reinvention of the wheel, and if so, I apologise in advance. I bring this up because it came to me as I attempt to do video of satellites. It should be possible, with current computing ability, to calculate the set an equatorial mount of a telescope such that with movement of only one axis one could follow any given satellite. All one would need is the azimith latitude of the point where the polar axis of the telescope should point. It would be great if this were listed somewhere (Heavens-Above?) for the different satellite passages of each day. Another useful parameter would be a drive rate but now I may be getting greedy. If this has already been done, great, just tell me where! Best, -Rik ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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