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 > > ----- > Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. > e-mail: sattrackcam_at_langbroek.org > > Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL > Cospar 4355 (Cronesteyn): 52.13878 N, 4.49937 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL > Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com > Twitter: _at_Marco_Langbroek > ----- > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Thu Jul 11 2019 - 16:20:13 UTC
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