Re: [amsat-bb] Telescopes & Satellites

[Mahlon Haunschild <mahlonhaunschild@xxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

You are correct, but that feature is specific to TheSky version 5 (level
II) or above.

But I wonder if TheSky can actually drive a telescope mount.  Ordinarily
the program is used with a pair of encoders on the telescope axes to
sense the pointing angles and convert them to a field-of-view on the
star charts.  I don't have very much experience with this aspect of the
program, so can't offer any more thoughts.

regards,

m.


Paul Williamson wrote:
> 
> At 07:49 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, Mahlon Haunschild wrote:
> >TheSky's coordinate system is in terms of right ascention and
> >declination, so no joy there.
> 
> Are you sure about that?
> 
> http://www.bisque.com/Products/TheSky/StandardFeatures.asp
> indicates that TheSky can display artificial satellites from standard
> two-line elements. It can also point a telescope at an object. Given
> that, I would be surprised if it couldn't point a telescope at a satellite.
> 
> 73  -Paul
> kb5mu@amsat.org
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