[ATMoB-discuss] ISS/Atlantis

[Paul Valleli]

As I recall, the Bisque brothers were asked to provide mounts for DoD 
that could track satellites and SB made some upgrades.
I believe Ron Dantowitz purchased the upgrade version for the 24-inch 
at BMOS and again for the Clay Center.
Let's see what Bruce has to say.
 From what I hear, many astronomy related companies are being pinched 
by tightened budgets and free-bees are becoming a rarity.
Paul



At 12:43 AM 6/29/2007, John Boudreau wrote:
>Thanks Paul, that's what I was afraid of--- I seemed to recall Bruce 
>mentioning that balance was critical on the club's GT1100 in order 
>to prevent stalling.
>
>I could be interesting if a motor upgrade can fix that, but as of 
>yet I haven't found anything on the web indicating that the GT1100 
>can track satellites with The Sky 6. on the web, I'm only finding 
>such references for the Paramount ME...
>
>...but I seem to recall that tracking satellites was included in the 
>early GT11000 ads in S&T in the late 90's.
>
>---John
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:valleli at rcn.com>Paul A. Valleli
>To: <mailto:jeboud at comcast.net>John Boudreau ; 
><mailto:atmob-discuss at atmob.org>atmob-discuss at atmob.org ; 
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>Subject: Re: [ATMoB-discuss] ISS/Atlantis
>
>John,All
>
>I don't think the GT1100 is powerful enough to move the C14 fast 
>enough and stay on course - I measured 15 degees in 10 seconds last 
>week, using Al Takeda's and Mike Schexnaydre's images which show the 
>Dipper in the FOV .  That's 1.5 deg. per sec. It would have been 
>faster than that when overhead.
>
>If Bruce Berger can get the motor/controller  upgrades installed 
>from SBIG, It should do it.
>
>Paul
>
>
>
>
>---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:43:22 -0400
>From: "John Boudreau" <<mailto:jeboud at comcast.net>jeboud at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [ATMoB-discuss] ISS/Atlantis
>To: <atmob-discuss at atmob.org>, <stmlist at yahoo.com>, "Paul Valleli" 
><pvalleli at axsys.com>
>
> >I'm not sure if our club's GT1100 mount can do it, but I know 
> Software Bisque's 'The Sky 6' can be used to make a Paramount ME 
> track satellites pretty accurately. It certainly would be something 
> to look into. If the GT1100 can do it, the club may already have 
> most of the equipment to image the ISS with surprising results.
> >
> >You may remember my hand tracked webcam ISS shots from last week, 
> with a TEC140 refractor working at f/7:
> >http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/satellites.htm
> >
> >Well, here's a couple of shots also taken with a TEC140 by Domenik 
> Wos in Poland--- but at 4x the effective focal length, a more 
> sensitive video camera, and auto-tracked on the ISS with an AP 1200 GTO:
> >http://www.astrophotography.pl/solsys/iss/07.06.16/07.06.16.html
> >Atlantis is visible at the RH end of the ISS in both shots.
> >
> >Remember, that's still only a 5.5" refractor resolving it that 
> well. Think what the C14 could do!
> >
> >---John
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Paul Valleli" <pvalleli at axsys.com>
> >To: <atmob-discuss at atmob.org>; <stmlist at yahoo.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:13 PM
> >Subject: [ATMoB-discuss] ISS/Atlantis
> >
> >
> >> There is an amazing and incredibly sharp picture of the ISS and
> >> Atlantis STS-117 taken by Ron Dantowitz and Marek Kozubal with the
> >> 25-inch scope at Clay Center.
> >> Go to APOD -astronomy picture of the day for today June28.
> >>
> >> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Paul
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