This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_018A_01BE66FF.66A16760 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I received this message from a visitor to our site. Telescopes are not = my strongpoint, could someone please help him? Thanks very much, Chris PS. We have now dramatically increased the size of our location database = to over 1 million places worldwide, including almost every town and = village in most countries. New countries are being added regulalry, and = my aim is to cover the whole world in the next few weeks. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Briggs <bbriggs@bellsouth.net> To: Chris.Peat@dlr.de <Chris.Peat@dlr.de> Date: 21 February 1999 04:50 Subject: amature satellite telescope tracking I have a Mead 8" with alt/az drive. I assume there is no way to track a = satellite with this SLOW drive, but is there a commercially available = system for tracking satellites with this telescope, or any other, or = even with binoculars? It seems this would require a special machine. =20 thanks for any information. =20 bill briggs bbriggs@bellsouth.net ------=_NextPart_000_018A_01BE66FF.66A16760 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">