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-lReceived on Tue Jun 09 2020 - 23:56:31 UTC
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