erik replied to the topic 'Satellite confusion' in the forum. 4 years ago

Thanks. So summerize things up:
- INDI still misses the capability to differentially track satellite, we can make up for that by leapfrogging along the satellites pass, for once.
- KStars can show satellites on screen, you can select them and drive towards their current position, but there is no tracking, neither differentially nor leapfrogging. For leapfrogging you'd have to slew onto a future position which is not possible at the moment.
- No automated imaging of satellite when in FOV

So, to get things started, it might be interesting to implement the leapfrogging. I'm not too deap into KStars and Eko, so where would I want to add this feature? Make another Ekos tab?

During my work as scientific student here at the TU Braunschweig, I wrote a standalone program, using INDI, to "measure" satellites orbits via leapfrogging, given a telescope and a camera as equipment. But the complexity increases somewhat drastically with added functionality, and using KStars/Ekos, with its many already existing functions, such as taking Dark Images, etc, might be the logical next step.

I'd be happy to contribute something, although I'm just a mechanical engineering student :D, all I know about programming is what I taught myself.

Cheers
Erik

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