Echo, echo, echo......

[lindendave]

I know I haven't been the most visible entity around here lately but it does seem that I'm not the only one. Where's everyone at? 

[Jean-Yves]

Hi Dave,

I'm back!
Work, work, work + clouds, clouds, clouds so not very active !

Anyway, I managed a view of the ISS last tuesday evening ... will try to improve next time, monday morning





Cheers

JY

[Ron]

Dave,

I'm ashamed to admit I've sort of given a back seat to Astronomy since I've become interested in RC Flying

Still repairing my little Firebird Phantoms, I'm amazed that they are still going.  I had to replace the little motors in both the planes because is seems the brushed motors don't have a very good life span, especially with the abuse I give them

JY,

Nice job on the ISS   I need some help on how to plug in the information needed to track the Satellites though?

I still manage to keep up with the latest happenings in our universe though especially with Mars.  The white stuff that the Phoenix uncovered has disappeared

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-113

Ron

[lindendave]

JY,

That's pretty cool! Do you use Satellite Tracker? I understand that the owner Ray Gralak has made it available for free and there has been quite a bit of activity since on the Yahoo group.

Ron,

Unless you're a much better RC pilot than I am that would be a daytime activity and astronomy is mostly done at night! 

Now that I have only a couple things left to do on my observatory I should be spending more time on line. Unfortunately I no longer have PeoplePC as my ISP as they could/would not resolve my inability to edit my personal website there. My new ISP, COPPER.net, is only email and internet connectivity so until I find another free site or bite the bullet and pay for one I have one less thing to keep up. In the meantime I will post images on my Flickr site but don't look for too many as construction winds down.

I think now that I have mechanized the roof and have added air conditioning I's getting spoiled, but I like it! 

[Ron]

I think now that I have mechanized the roof and have added air conditioning I's getting spoiled, but I like it! 

Nothing like a spoiled Astronamer

[Jean-Yves]

Hi Dave, Ron,

Just manual tracking ... I tried satellite tracker some years back but had no success ... not enough opportunities to tune the software, too many passes under the clouds.

Manual tracking at 1/1000s exposure time kind of works, I get one frame here and there with the ISS.

Cheers

JY

[twilbur]

Super cool Jean-Yves!
Great job.

[Jean-Yves]

Thanks ... I can't wait for the next good pass ... without clouds ... they are very rare!

Cheers

JY