Hi there, I know this is an older thread, but I am also interested to know how the astrometrica software behaves and how easy it is for satellite detection? My approach is to determine the ra/dec with astrometry.net software. That works reasonably well with the video I have from the Transporter 2 Mission of this June. The satellites I detect myself. But it takes a while for both (my code and the astrometry part). Maybe astrometrica is better there. But before I start the 100 days trial, I would like to know here if this can be applied also to leo satellites. Best regards, Andreas On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:55 AM Fabio A via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: > Marco, > thank you! > > I will try it as soon as weather conditions improve. > > Fabio > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:53 PM Marco Langbroek <marco_at_langbroek.org> > wrote: > > > Op 9-6-2020 om 21:35 schreef Fabio A via Seesat-l: > > > Hello everybody, > > > recently I've been trying to take a photo of a geostationary satellite > > > using a small telescope, I've been lucky and I made it. > > > Now I would like to try to determine its orbit, but I can't find a > clear > > > procedure. > > > I would like to be able to produce a set of TLE and then check it > > against a > > > public available TLE. > > > > > > Can anybody suggest a way to do that? > > > > > > BR > > > Fabio Azzarello > > > > > > Hi Fabio, > > > > You will need more than one photo of the satellite for that, taken many > > hours apart. > > > > Some software to calculate orbits and refine orbits is here: > > > > http://sat.belastro.net/satelliteorbitdetermination.com/ > > > > The input for that software needs to be in IOD format. You can transform > > positions and times in IOD format with my program "IOD Entry" which you > > can find > > here: > > > > http://software.langbroek.org/ > > > > > > But first you will also need astrometric software (e.g. Astrometrica) to > > measure > > the image and determine coordinates of the satellite on the image. You > > will also > > need accurate times for your imagery (to a second or better). > > > > - Marco > > > > > > ----- > > Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. > > e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org > > > > Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com > > Launchtower: http://launchtower.langbroek.org > > Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek > > ----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sat Aug 21 2021 - 17:50:56 UTC
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