RE: How to find sat IDs in a given image

Gianluca Masi wrote:

> 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).

When accurate positional data is available, I usually perform a brute-force search of all objects
in known orbits, using software designed for that purpose.

There is Findsat, available from Mike McCants:

https://www.prismnet.com/~mmccants/programs/index.html

I have a similar program called IDSat:

http://www.satobs.org/programs/IdSat/IDSat.zip

Ted Molczan

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