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Originally Posted by winensky
Another great capture Rick. I am not sure how to go about feeding orbital data into my Auto Star for tracking but I have more than enough to learn about other things at this stage so I might leave the NEOs for a few years down the track. Awesome work and thanks again for posting. Perhaps the woo-woos could concentrate on wayward satellites for a while. Certainly a more satisfying bang or splash.
Kind regards
Matt
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I'm not familiar with that mount and software. The Minor Planet Center can give you the elements in the form for most software. I imagine yours is included. That's how I get it into the computer. Then The Sky takes it from there. I just check the box to add orbital offsets and it does the rest. Since there is no guiding, you do need very accurate polar alignment. I'm permanent so that's not a problem like it was in the decades I had to work portable.
Rick