Drive for telescopic satellite tracking

Allen Thomson (thomsona@netcom.com)
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 13:12:09 -0700 (PDT)

    It appears as if the latest version (Skysensor 2000) of the Skysensor
telescope drive comes with the ability to track satellites built in.  The
following message from a user appeared in sci.astro.amateur, as recovered
from DejaNews:

http://xp10.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?recnum=14591986&server=db97p4x&CONTEXT=877722886.1078526719&hitnum=0


   And a bit of sleuthery led to this page describing the system:

http://www.astromedia.se/vixen/skysensor_eng.html


   FWIW, this somewhat interesting item on amateur adaptive optics fell out
along the way:

http://voltaire.csun.edu/ao.html