Hello Christian,

From your description there's several possible causes for the no-show.

Have you set up your location correctly? An error here will easily
make you miss a satellite.

Have you calibrated the telescope's setting-circles?

And are you sure that you want to use a short focal-length eyepiece for
wide fields? Use the longest focal-length eyepiece you have.


Jari
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"christian sturm" <chstur-@...> wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/guide-user/?start=314

> 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
>
>