Paul,

CSat is useless with a CCD camera, since it doesn't do smooth tracking. I've used it with a video cam going to a video monitor and was able to see
the sat go across the screen, but still can't use enough mag to see any shape. If you want to try something like that, let me know. Maybe we can help
each other.

Brad

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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