[guide-user] Observing artificial satellites

Christian Sturm Feb 13, 2000

Hello,

I tried to observe artificial satellites using my LX200/8" and guide7.
I checked the time of my computer, the time of the LX200 - both with an
accuracy of one second roughly.
I loaded down the newest TLEs from the internet and used an eyepiece
with a short focal distance to see a great area of the sky. I set Guide
into realtime mode with a refresh of 1 second. I adjust the LX200 to
the sky and pointed it then to the area where orbiting objects with a
magnitude greater than 10 should appear after a few seconds. But I
didn't saw any objects.

I also didn't saw objects a few seconds before or after the predicted
time.

What's wrong?

Christian