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Mesu e200 exercising on satellite tracking

Posted on February 15, 2020November 1, 2020

Few nights ago I started a serious exercising on the Mesu mk2 mount.

It’s not all about deep space, sometimes when you want to follow rocks on the space you need to use your mount in a different way.

Here on this link you could find my collection of rocks reported to the MPC.

If you pretend to follow artificial satellites from the earth surface-.. it’s a different history. The relative speed of this targets above our sky is higher and it’s necessary to do a camera expo some seconds. That’s means you need to keep the movement following the satellite all this time.

After to obtain the visible passes and their orbits of some artificial satellites (because they are illuminated by our sun at night) I started these collection as mount exercise.

Each satellite has a TLE orbit describing with two text lines the relative state base on his velocity and position.

As example, the chinese satellite BEIDOU 3M15 has this TLE:

1 43647U 18078A   20046.14555854 -.00000079  00000-0  10000-3 0  9998
2 43647  55.1789  19.8582 0007789 329.5852 289.6563  1.86232910  9076

This satellite is one of the caughted, it has an orbit on a order of 21,556.7 km above the earth and it was launch on October of 2018. The amount of time to take one revolution to the earth is 773.2 minutes, it’s fast….

It’s used for the chinese Beidou navigation system.

Here the capture of the BEIDOU 3M15

(I know…. it’s only one light point…. 😀 )

and here a compilation of some of this satellites captures

Don’t forget that at this time (2020 Feb) more that 2000 satellites are crossing above your head just at this moment…..

And of course, all these efforts are… for capture the International Space Station at some point….

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5 thoughts on “Mesu e200 exercising on satellite tracking”

  1. uw says:
    April 1, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    Fantástico ,Jose….es increíble lo que consigues.

    un saludo afectuoso

    Pepe

    Reply
  2. desgrees says:
    May 25, 2020 at 8:41 am

    Bonjour,
    I am waiting for a MESU mount delivery and I tried without large success to shoot the ISS with my SW EQ8
    at the end did you get it with the Mesu ?
    Merci
    JPa

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    1. Jose says:
      May 25, 2020 at 9:12 am

      I am waiting to the end this COVID crisis to open again the observatory and try 😀

      Reply
  3. Shaun says:
    July 8, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    I’ve been following you and Tom from Tom’s Man Shed on YouTube. I was a bit nervous about the price but now I’m convinced I must buy it. I’m just waiting to get a shipping quote. I’m expecting it to be in the order of 400 Euro as it cost me $400 to ship the EQ6R Pro from the USA a few weeks ago. If the shipping comes to around this figure I’m hitting the BUY button

    Reply
    1. Jose says:
      July 31, 2020 at 9:24 am

      I hope you get the right deal 😀 and join our small club

      Reply

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