Re: An open-source program’s Call for Help: Coordinated team-up observation for StarLink and NOAA satellites in July. Contribute to the satellite observing community 2019-07-19 until 2019-07-21!

From: Chris Lewicki via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 14:19:20 -0700
While not in the cheap category, this is an interesting 2019 paper on an all-sky solution, with automated object detection as well.  
https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/neosst1/paper/438/NEOSST1-paper438.pdf <https://conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/proceedings/neosst1/paper/438/NEOSST1-paper438.pdf>

Marco - the WATEC workflow also requires a frame-grabber, and possibly a time injector?  Leo Barhorst as a Sattools setup described in the “Manual Sattools” linked at the bottom of his website: http://www.satlist.nl/ <http://www.satlist.nl/>. I suspect all this could be run from a Raspberry Pi, but I haven’t tried sattools in that environment yet.

As someone who has also recently gotten much more involved in the hobby - there’s a lot of “peripheral” considerations with respect to total system cost (add in your jokes here about the budget for your hobby ;-)
ATIK 11000M
-Chris
_at_interplanetary


> On Jul 11, 2019, at 1:31 PM, Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:
> 
> Op 10-7-2019 om 22:46 schreef Andreas Hornig via Seesat-l:
>> What would a newbie like me need to start to join the optical tracking?
>> It should be really simple and within my tight budget. And I would like to
>> automate a lot. I checked on www.hackaday.com because they have a lot of
>> crazy good projects there. But a "satellite dot tracker" they do not have
>> yet.
> 
> 
> On an old skool (but effective!) way: binoculars and a stopwatch.
> 
> More sophisticated: a WATEC 902H and a 1.8/50 mm lens (can be an old
> photographic one fitted with an adapter), and Tangra software or, especially if
> you want to highly automate things, Cees Bassa's SatTools software.
> 
> I would like to point out that second-hand WATEC 902H camera's need not be very
> expensive. I bought mine for 80 Euro through eBay. The lens is an old Canon FD
> 1.8/50 from my old analogue DSLR I still had lying about, fitted through an FD
> to C adapter.
> 
> Note that for meaningful positional work you need to achive (a) a decent
> limiting magnitude of your equipment; and (b) a good resolution. This usually
> translates to: a limited field of view. If you want (semi-) all sky coverage,
> you'll have to use multiple camera's, there is no way around that. A single
> (semi-) all-sky video cam will neither have sufficient limiting magnitude nor
> sufficient resolution.
> 
> 
> - Marco
> 
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