8" Meade LX200 Classic
SBIG ST-2000XCM
AO-7 Adaptive Optics
Music by Stellardrone
Channel members get exclusive access to compiled executables of my programs, including SatTraker. The source code is freely available at GitHub:
https://github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUCjDOoUhRE
ISS was tracked at an INSANE 11 meter equivalent focal length using SatTraker. The footage was stabilized in post, but the raw footage was also live streamed last night without stabilization.
SatTraker: https://github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker/blob/master/SatTrakerBetaV5.py
All channel members get access to compiled executables of SatTraker and UFOTraker!
Music: Ascent by Stellardrone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvO0ut63BDA
Tracked using my custom Teletrak software. Recorded with an 8" Meade LX200 Classic and Canon T5i. Additional footage courtesy of Reds Rhetoric using a P900.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQ41VIaL3Q
Music: Rendezvous with Rama by Stellardrone
Highlights of launch day at the SpaceX CRS-8 NASA Social which culminated in a successful launch and first stage landing of the Falcon 9.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDy9sSx3Hh8
A live discussion of Higher Truth Channel's claims.
Venus Spreadsheet:
http://dropcanvas.com/tfe1t
Newcomb's Tables of the Sun and the Inner Planets:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005816399;view=1up;seq=281
1850 Farmer's Almanac:
https://archive.org/stream/farmersalmanacfo00phil#page/n3/mode/2up
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wvG5ZfYICE
Analysis of the satellites most at risk of a collision with asteroid 2012 DA14 in February 2013. The risk of an impact with any satellite is extremely low, but if it does collide, it will be with one of these.
Monte Carlo solutions calculated with FindOrb, solutions displayed and compared to satellite positions using ORSA.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJHsAb9urxw
Please consider donating to support further development of this software:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JTMV8EKRTHFEC
SatTraker on GitHub:
https://github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker
Python installation tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gjCwJrkiAU
Additional dependencies needed (use "pip install ****"):
geocoder
pyserial
pypiwin32
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcLM4xUpBEo
This is the view STEREO Ahead's Heliospheric Imager had on June 5th-27th, followed by a zoom-out to show the "big picture" in that same time period. This was recorded with Celestia and the following orbital elements for
STEREO-Ahead:
"STEREO-A" "Sol"
{
Class "spacecraft"
Mesh "rosetta.3ds"
Radius 0.005
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_2gjqMvF-g