Re: OFEQ 11

From: Jonathan McDowell via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:48:51 -0400
Bjorn - that's great to hear. By the way SAOImage ds9 development (and the
developer) has now been assigned to my team so if you
have feature requests for display features specific to satellite observing
I'm open to hearing them
(although of course our primary focus is astrophysics data)
  Jonathan


On 24 September 2016 at 14:46, Björn Gimle via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org
> wrote:

> Another first for me - I viewed Derek's OFEQ 11 wmv, took a few
> screenshots, convert them at Astrometry.net to fits, and simply read the
> coordinates in SAOimage DS9 ! Quite fast and easy.
> It might work for faint stars/small fields also (they have 0.1 degrees FOV
> as minimum in the dropdown)
>
> 41759 16 056A   8739 G 20160724031535642 26 25 1956300+281328 37 R
> 99999 16 768A   8739 G 20160724031535642 26 25 1952017+245923 37 s
> 41759 16 056A   8739 G 20160724031533707 26 25 2005617+273867 37 R
> 99999 16 768A   8739 G 20160724031533707 26 25 1947883+251490 37 S
> 41759 16 056A   8739 G 20160724031533707 26 25 1700180+305545 37 R
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Björn Gimle, COSPAR 5919
> 59.2617 N, 18.6169 E, 51 m
> Satellite observation formats described:
> http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> From DCB Prowler obs:
> 2016-07-24 21:18 GMT+02:00 Derek C Breit via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org
> >:
>
> > ...
> > FOV - 1.98 x 1.48 Degrees. Time by IOTA-VTI GPS Time inserter (from
> > VideoTimers)
> > ...
>
> Satellites are simple. Reducing them with ObsReduce - not so much. Without
> > a new reduction method for stars to mag 17, I have just made things
> vastly
> > more difficult..
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
>
> Here are measurements for the initial part of your video, before you
> > started slewing.
> > 41759 16 056A   8739 G 20160924031531905 17 25 2014160+270355 37 S
> > 41759 16 056A   8739 G 20160924031532672 17 25 2010570+271919 37 S
> > 41759 16 056A   8739 G 20160924031533773 17 25 2005385+273959 37 S
> > 41759 16 056A   8739 G 20160924031534306 17 25 2002878+274916 37 S
> > 41759 16 056A   8739 G 20160924031534807 17 25 2000439+275825 37 S
> >
> > Regards,
> >     Cees
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