[amsat-bb] Re: Camera on an antenna

[Joe]

The ONLY problem with this method, is, Daytime while the moon can be 
seen, it is usually very difficult on a camera, and then clouds,,,,, day 
or night they kind of block the view,

Joe WB9SBD
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On 9/9/2012 4:49 AM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> On 09/09/12 10:47, Robert McGwier wrote:
>> K2UYH has a camera mounted on his dish. I love the felt tip marker on
>> his monitor showing where the moon should be!
>
> Now, could you do something like use a capture card and OpenCV to use 
> the camera to aim the dish by observation rather than by prediction?
>
> Could you track the ISS with such a device?  If you could I wouldn't 
> want to get in the way of the rotator and beam as it swings.  It would 
> probably bat you into LEO!
>