Re: Two scope-related questions/answers

agruener Nov 14, 2002

> I _have_ heard of software that does a decent job of tracking by
> sending directional slew commands ("set the following guiding/slew
> rate... move left... move up... stop..."), all timed so that the
overall
> motion will be passably close to that of the target object. Dunno
how
> well this works, and don't remember any details. Anybody know
> what I'm talking about?

Hi Bill,

perhaps these links will help a bit ?

http://www.iss-tracking.de/projects/ufas.html (from
http://www.iss-tracking.de - very good page from people of my
observatory in Munich, Germany)

http://www.heavenscape.com/

This software is used to track satellites (and ISS) and should solve a
few problems (I personally never used it but saw it in action...).

Greetings,
Alexander