Re: How to find sat IDs in a given image

From: Chris Kuethe via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:37:20 -0700
One way would be to use a tool like stellarium.

I see that you have the object location, but if you don't you can use
astrometry to determine your field of view; online astrometry at
nova.astrometry.net or you can install it locally.

Once you know where you were, where you were looking, and what time, load
up some TLE databases (from celestrak, tle.info, space-track, this group,
trusat,...) into stellarium, turn on satellite display, set the display
time to your image time, and see what shows up in the field of view.

I'm sure there's a better way, which I look forward to learning about.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 02:19 Gianluca Masi via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> very often, when doing CCD images of the sky with my telescopes, I record
> a
> satellite trail and I was wondering how I can find the ID of that
> satellite.
>
> I have the location coords, time and coordinates of the object (RA and
> declination).
>
> I would be very grateful for your inputs.
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Gianluca
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