Re: Fw: amature satellite telescope tracking

Len Struttmann (lmstrutt@cca.rockwell.com)
Fri, 05 Mar 1999 06:41:41 -0600

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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