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Re: PREDICT Version 2.1.0 For Linux Released
Hi Jamie.
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, jamie wrote:
> Hi John,
> Is there anyway to hook this up to a MEADE telescope with motor drives to
> visually see the satellites? Perhaps there is other software too!? Thanks for
> your time,
>
> Jamie Morken
If you can come up with the needed mechanics to drive the telescope, and
the needed interface to connect it to your computer, you could write a
simple program to poll PREDICT for live tracking data, and send the
appropriate signals to the telescope controller to follow the satellite.
A sample program that demonstrates how such data can be polled from the
program using network sockets is included with the Linux version of
PREDICT. The rest is up to you. :-)
73, de John, KD2BD
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