[amsat-bb] Satellite Tracking Engine

Andrew Rich vk4tec at internode.on.net
Wed Nov 1 22:25:42 UTC 2017


Awesome !

Cheers guys 

Andy VK4TEC 


> On 2 Nov 2017, at 5:50 am, Don Sandstrom <w7vxs at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> Andrew - If you can use Python, consider the pyephem module. It can predict satellite passes, calculate azimuth/elevation, determine eclipse state, etc based on TLE data. See http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/tutorial.html <http://rhodesmill.org/pyephem/tutorial.html>.
> 
> 73 - Don, W7VXS
> 
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Andrew Rich <vk4tec at internode.on.net <mailto:vk4tec at internode.on.net>> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I used to make use of predict using scripts
> 
> Since then the raspberry pi and arduinos have come along
> 
> What LINUX satellite tracking program could be queried or send data about
> 
> Satellite elevation and angle
> 
> Satellite doppler frequency
> 
> I want to make a multi satellite radio and rotor control box with auto update keeps
> 
> I want to use perl to do the hard work
> 
> I want an arduino or the Pi to do the doppler and rotator
> 
> Andrew
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