At 08:44 28/03/01 , Allen Thomson wrote: > >The May 2001 issue of Sky & Telescope contains a very interesting article, >"Automated Meteor Observing", by Sirko Molau, which I think might be >relevant to video satellite observations. The author (in Aachen.de, should >any SeeSaters be in the vicinity) has automated the detection process, so >that painful frame-by-frame searches don't need to be done by humans. > >There is a relevant page by Mr. Molau at > >http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Colleagues/molau/meteore/metrec.html > His software has already found a satellite Allen. Rob McNaught is running it with an intensified video camera with lenses such that he has an 11 deg field of view. . The other day it picked up ISS. A question about the timimg prompted me to ask about using stable satellites for calibrating PC clocks. Answere sufficiently by Bjoern Gimle just the other day. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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