Thanks for the posting.Several such cameras operate around the world-called CONCAMS- and we have/had(?) one in South Africa at the Sutherland outstation of the South African Astronomical Observatory-Im not sure if its still in operation. Anyway when it first came on line I thought that this would be a great tool and examed quite a number of images etc but did not find very many satellites. If the stellar limit is around 6th magnitude I would not normally expect it to see satellites fainter than about 3-4th magnitude. The other problem is the resolution which makes it a bit difficult to see thin faint satellite tracks. However if one were to use (say) four cameras-each covering say 40-60 degrees ,one could get somewhat better results and it would be worthwhile for amateur satellite trackers to attempt such. One would also need time stamping on the images captured. It would not be too difficult to build such a system- use a quad video capture card will allow input from 4 cameras along with time stamping- this is common in multi-camera commercial surveillance systems. The program SKYPATROL that I use for wide angle monitoring was actually written for 4 cameras so the software is free- all I have to do now is buy another three MINTRON cameras ( or similar) and four identical lenses - somehow I think I will have a job convincing my wife that such is essential for my happy state of existance. Another complication is that the data from (say) four cameras will be rather considerable so I need two or three nice young blondes or brunettes to go through the data - that my wife will NOT allow :-(( Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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