When I use my GEM to track Satellites I like to know how long ( or if) it will be till the Sat track will cross the meridian since the mount will need a flip and that totally screws up tracking the Sat.
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Bill Tschumy What is the exact feature you are requesting? Would it be sufficient to show in the Object Info the time at which it crosses the meridian (if at all)? This sounds like a fairly specialized request, but if it is simple, we might be able to ad it.
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Bill Tschumy I will also say that give your title "Show a selected satellite predicted track on the sky", we already do that. If you see the track crosses the meridian, you can run time forward to that point and see the time it will happen.
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GrandpaChuck Hi Bill! Thank you for the quick responses!! Yes, simply listing the time the Sat is predicted to cross the meridian would be enough. Your second reply says SSP already shows the predicted track? I never got it to do that last night? The Sats move along against the star field, but there was no “predicted track” to show where it was going to be going? Is there a way to turn on the predicted track to be able to see where it is going? Many thanks!!!
Chuck
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Bill Tschumy Go to Settings > Solar System and turn on "Show Selected Object Path". This will show the path of whatever solar system object is selected. I use this a lot when observing satellites.
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GrandpaChuck Hi Bill!
That is EXACTLY what I was wanting it to do!!!! I was too dumb to think of Satellites as solar system objects (which they obviously ARE except for the Voyagers). You guys are GREAT!!! Thank you for your patient and expert help!!!!!!!Chuck ( an SSP user for life!)
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Bill Tschumy Glad that helps.
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