Just to be clear, I am running SkyX Pro, I don’t know what the other versions can do. In the Pro version, you can go to Input: Satellite: Import from Web: Amateur Radio Satellites. I have a Mach2

Thanks David. I run TheSkyX through ASCOM so I will check it out. I am primarily interested in amateur radio comms satellites and using the Mach2 as a tracking platform, so I will investigate what I

SkyX will download any satellite you want (the easiest way is the download of the 100 brightest satellites). You can then track the satellite with your mount. SkyX has a direct AP connection or you

I will take a look at my copy of TheSkyX. Maybe I can use it to at least track track the satellites that it has its database. -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery -

I don’t believe the site gives you the TLE/Keplerian data. I use SkyX. In it you can download satellite elements and then use it to track the satellite across the sky.

Thanks David, that is a nice resource. I like the "pass details" map that it gives you. Do you know if the site also gives you TLE/Keplerian element data for the satellites that they track? I

The website heavens-above.com. will tell you when the ISS (as well as many other satellites) will be observable from your location and will even plot its path across the sky for your location. Try it

Thanks Curtis. We will see how it goes. I have this nifty high tech mount. Why not use it as a satellite tracking platform too? -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery -

It was probably six or seven years ago, but I once tried using Horizons to track a comet with my Mach1GTO. Yes, I could track the comet. But the resulting images weren't tracked precisely enough for

Hi Ed, the directions in the AP Horizons manual are excellent so I think I am set to go. I am going to try and get a video of an ISS pass just to see if I can put all of the parts together correctly.

Dean, Do you know witch two days yet, I realize it depends on the Weather. Allen

Hey Al, I hope to be out at the observatory at least two times next week. -- Dean Jacobsen http://astrophoto.net/wp/ Image Gallery - http://astrophoto.net/wp/image-gallery/ Astrobin Image Gallery -

Robert, I hope you and your family are doing well. We are well and looking forward to having 4 grandchildren all next week. This post on the Astro-Physics forum about satellite tracking may

That would work for communicating with an amateur radio satellite if the satellite isn't faster than the 1800x rate. I just need something that will keep the antenna array moving with the satellite.

Understood Roland, I remember that you have said that before. There are a lot of satellites up there and perhaps I will find something within the max tracking rate of the Mach2. Is the Mach2 fast

We are limited by Federal law to a maximum controlled tracking rate of 999x sidereal in order to prevent our mount from being used for missile tracking by foreign bad guys. There are programs that

Hello Allen, We think that perhaps your app has sent a bad sync to the mount at some point, perhaps at startup. Some of these programs are not yet properly adapted to a computer mount and may be

Hi Ed, Thanks, I haven't run across that doc yet and it is very helpful. Fortunately, AMSAT issues a bulletin once a week with TLEs of the current amateur satellites:

Thanks Roland. Wes WA5TKU

My first AP mount was a Mach1. I purchased APCC Pro with to use the pointing model. I was not successful in using that with my camera at the time and returned it, and also because SGP by itself met my