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\section{SatNOGS Optical HOWTO}
SatNOGS Optical is the nascent distributed network of optical
ground stations.

This chapter gives a top level review what is needed in terms of hardware and
software to build an operating optical ground station.


\section{Toolchain}
SatNOGS Optical Process Overview.%
\footnote{\url{https://spacecruft.org/spacecruft/SNOPO}}
See figure \ref{fig:snopo}, page \pageref{fig:snopo}, described below.

\begin{enumerate}
  \item Hardware --- Hardware, such as cameras and computers, is to be selected and set up.
  \item Software --- The best currently available software is to be downloaded, installed, and configured.
  \item Acquire --- Data samples, typically in the form of \gls{FITS} file photographs, need to be acquired by running a camera outside at night taking pictures of the sky.
  \item \Gls{plate-solver} --- Acquired data samples need to be processed by a \gls{plate-solver}. See \ref{sec:plate-solver}, page \pageref{sec:plate-solver}.
  \item Detect \glspl{satellite} --- Using \glspl{TLE} and the ``solved'' plates, detect \glspl{satellite}. See \ref{sec:satellite-detection}, page \pageref{sec:satellite-detection}.
  \item Identify \glspl{satellite} --- With \glspl{satellite} detected in the previous step, identify what they are. See \ref{sec:overview-identify}, page \pageref{sec:overview-identify}.
\end{enumerate}

\begin{figure}[h!]
	\includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,height=1.10\textheight,width=1.00\textwidth,angle=0]{SNOPO.png}
	\caption{SatNOGS Optical Process Overview}
	\label{fig:snopo}
	\index{process}
\end{figure}