See http://www.merlin.com Chris Peat wrote: > > 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. > > thanks for any information. > > bill briggs > bbriggs@bellsouth.net