Re: How to find sat IDs in a given image

From: Scott Tilley via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:48:56 -0700
Consider looking into SATTOOLS.  It's Linux based and can process any 
jpeg image so you can ID satellites in the frame.  In fact it will plot 
all of them in onto the image for you.

https://github.com/cbassa/sattools

Here's a great example.  A chap shared a historical observation of 
Salyut 7 and Soyuz T-15 by Daniel Fischer on Twitter.  I took the photo 
and Jonathan McDowell's archive of TLEs and was able to reconstruct the 
event in the photo and even GEO locate where Daniel was that day in 1986...

https://twitter.com/cosmos4u/status/1224113809050173440

Regards,

Scott Tilley



On 2021-03-31 2:18 a.m., Gianluca Masi via Seesat-l wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> very often, when doing CCD images of the sky with my telescopes, I 
> record a satellite trail and I was wondering how I can find the ID of 
> that satellite.
>
> I have the location coords, time and coordinates of the object (RA and 
> declination).
>
> I would be very grateful for your inputs.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Gianluca
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