Satellite Tracking Toolkit

Sattools is a collection of tools to facilitate Photographic and Video satellite tracking.

Install notes

Clone locally the code repository
Install common dependencies
- gfortran
- gcc
- libpng-dev
- libx11-dev
- libjpeg-dev
- libexif-dev
Build & install required libraries
- qfits-5.2.0: ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/qfits/qfits-5.2.0.tar.gz
- pgplot-5.2.2: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/
- gsl-1.15: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.15.tar.gz
- wcslib-2.9: http://www.epta.eu.org/~bassa/wcslib-2.9.tar
Run make on the sattools folder
Helper scripts install_dependencies.sh and install_sattools.sh are available at scripts directory. You can try run these scripts to install or use them as install guide.
If you re-run install_sattools.sh you should previously rmdir sattools directory or otherwise souces will not be fetched even if they are not present at that dir

You will need to set the following environment variables to run sattools. These vars are set with default values after running install_sattolls.sh. ST_COSPAR COSPAR number ST_DATADIR path to sattools directory ST_TLEDIR path to TLE directory ST_OBSDIR path to observations directory
If you have multiple capture devices you will need to add a /etc/udev/rules.d/99-server.rules file to add symlinks and use them to address a particular camera. Sattools will automatically select the camera that is scheduled for each observation. You may use a command such as 'udevadm info -a -n /dev/video0' to get your capture device attributes and use that to create the rules file. A sample rules file is available as guide in data/ Note that symlinks to the rules file do not work, the rules file must be modified to suit your needs and copied to /etc/udev/rules.d/
You should install NTP support on the system and configure time/date to automatically sinchronize to time servers.
Modify stget.sh for your space-track.org login and password (--post-data='identity=login&password=password')