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This might be interesting to teachers, to amateur astronomers, etc. I am one of the (few?) people using Macs to in my satellite tracking hobby - if there are more they aren't very communicative!
There is an international group of professional and amateur astronomers that track satellites, there are many good reasons to do this that I could talk about via email. Almost all of them use Unix and a few use Windows.
So I track a bunch of satellites using my Macs, a used Nikon D200 DSLR, and my iPhone.
No I have not found a way to monetize this yet! Though I have not tried hard.
Yes there are web pages that help you track or observe satellites but they only give you a part of a larger solution. You can use Heaven's Above, etc to see satellites but I actually get "observations" and hopefully soon will be able to generate the orbits.
If you are interested you could go to my (free!) web page of course:
There is an international group of professional and amateur astronomers that track satellites, there are many good reasons to do this that I could talk about via email. Almost all of them use Unix and a few use Windows.
So I track a bunch of satellites using my Macs, a used Nikon D200 DSLR, and my iPhone.
No I have not found a way to monetize this yet! Though I have not tried hard.
Yes there are web pages that help you track or observe satellites but they only give you a part of a larger solution. You can use Heaven's Above, etc to see satellites but I actually get "observations" and hopefully soon will be able to generate the orbits.
If you are interested you could go to my (free!) web page of course:
Optical Satellite Tracking
This site is to document how to track satellites - computerized mounts and telescopes help. It might be called "how to track satellites more easily, using common cameras or even computerized tracking systems" but that name is too long. At first this site is going to describe how to track with a
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