Hello all, I am from Montevideo-Uruguay. I have been following the SeeSat List from some years and my main interest is on the technical side of the satellite observation hobby. I particularly enjoy developing enhancements to the capabilities of average enthusiast. I have got a background in Electrical Engineering and am a radio amateur with a bias toward satellites. Something I had fun with a couple of years back was extending a free Android app to enable following LEO sats with Celestron scopes without jumps (continuous motion). This app is useful for keeping the sat (i.e. ISS) very well centered in the FOV during a complete pass. Main trick is to introduce scope pointing corrections by sliding your thumb over the touchscreen of the phone without taking your sight from the camera monitor. Now I have recently setup a simple observation site based on Cees Bassa´s Sattools. Right now it is producing some data using a single fixed camera. The (very recently) assigned COSPAR Id. is 0899, some site´s details: Camera: Samsung SDC435 with 50mm 1:1.4 Zoom lens adjusted at half it´s range FOV: 20deg x 16deg Mount: Fixed at Az40deg (0deg=South), El30deg Location: Lat-34.8961, Lon-56.1227, 30m above mean sea level. With aid from Cees Bassa I am working on extending Sattools package with the intention of making it a bit more user friendly and hopefully in the future also more autonomous. This is being done as a fork to Cees´s github repository. To date some few features have been added to try ease star field calibration, camera device switchover (multi-camera sites) and housekeeping (less command-line hassle). And of course I also humbly expect to contribute from now on with sat observations from this part of the world. Clear skies! Fernando Mederos _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Oct 10 2017 - 12:06:05 UTC
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