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Hardware
Mel Bartels' telescopes and telescope making pages
Mel Bartels - Computer Operated Telescopes
Working With Stepper Motors - A very nice beginners overview Tutorial
Control of Stepping Motors - a very nice tutorial by Douglas W. Jones
Lots of links and sources for good Stepper Motor information
Parallel Port Central - A collection of files and links to material about the PC's parallel port
Parallel Port Complete - Programming, Interfacing, and Using the PC's Parallel Printer Port
Interfacing the Standard Parallel Port - very nice tutorial
Lots of links on controlling all kinds of motors, including Steppers
Freeware software to calculate various CCD/lens/pixel parameters
Prediction Software
Mike McCants' Homepage - the author of QUICKSAT
Dr. Tom Kelso's Homepage - from TRAKSTAR fame
heavens-above.com
- The best site out for Online Satellite Predictions
Fresh Element Sets
For beginners - VISUAL.TXT - a list of the 150 or so brightest objects
T.S. Kelso's NORAD Two-Line Element Sets - Current Data
Mike McCants maintains an extensive list of fresh elements including ALLDAT.ZIP containing all available elements (about 8300 odd)
NASA/GSFC Iridium elements
VSOHP's comprehensive links page for getting fresh satellite orbital elements
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