Re: request for your help = a option I would like to see added to satellite tracker

From: C. Bassa via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:50:14 +0100
Hi Brad, Mike,

Mike informed me that I may have misunderstood your post, and it looks
like I have.

I had not realized that you were suggesting to convert the directions
(azimuth/altitude or ra/dec) for the plane scan into a TLE that can be
loaded by the software controlling your mount. The motion of the plane
scan point you want to look at is very different from the motion of a
satellite, so it will be very hard to convert those into a TLE that
will yield useful results.

Instead, I've just posted the first version of some software that will
compute the plane scan directions given some information (see
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Feb-2016/0143.html). My suggestion would
be to ask the software developers of the mounts that you are using to
see if they can read a list of positions (ra/dec or azimuth/altitude)
with specified times and use those to control the mount.

Regards,
    Cees
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