Hi all,
Has anybody played with the ETC90C's capability in this area? I seem to
remember reading Meade ad copy (pinch of salt added ;-) that said that
it could use current TLEs to "track" satellites. Is this the literal
sense of track, as in follow across the sky smoothly, or the sky hopping
like an LX200 and C-Sat? Any comments?

Mike

PS- I assume the 125c will have the same capabilities.

Paul Goelz wrote:
>
> At 08:31 PM 5/31/99 +0000, you wrote:
> >Paul,
> >
> > I haven't been able to see any shapes. The way CSat works is that it
> gets ahead of the sat and waits for it. After it passes thru fov, it moves
> >ahead and waits again . At 32x & fov = 1.4 deg, most sats take 3 or 4
> seconds to go thru. If I increase mag enough to see some shape in Mir or
> >STS+ISS, it would probably go thru too fast to get a good look. I haven't
> really tried it at high mag, but I will and I'll let you know what happens.
> >
> >Brad
>
> OOPS. Sounds like at the magnifications involved with prime focus CCD
> cameras, getting it on the chip may be a bit of a problem.

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