Brent, Your program looks great...nice work! Runs fast, not too much memory, necessary features. I don't have an LX200 but have been looking closely at buying one for both satellite observation and general astronomy. A couple of questions: Was the scope designed to slew this fast on a continuous basis? I imagine it was designed to goto other parts of the sky for more traditional viewing. So this begs the question of whether it can keep up kind of activity for a sustained period of time without overheating, wearing out gears, motors, etc. Does the pointing accuracy degrade over time as a function of how much it is used for this purpose? If they start showing wear, can the drive mechanisms be rebuilt? What about warranties from Meade? I know you're not a Meade rep but thanks in advance! Tom -----Original Message----- From: Brent Boshart [mailto:brentb@micro-man.com] Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 8:25 AM To: seeSat-L@lists.satellite.eu.org Subject: Freeware for Satellite tracking Please see my homepage http://sattracker.hypermart.net for free satellite tracking software. Interfaces to Meade LX200 and can do smooth continuous tracking! Uses SGP4/SDP4 orbital model calculations. Predicts passes. Couple of mapping options. ________________________________ Brent Boshart brentb@micro-man.com http://sattracker.hypermart.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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