sattools/README.md

Satellite Tracking Toolkit

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

Build

• 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

Run

You will need to set the following environment variables to run sattools:

• ST_COSPAR COSPAR number
• ST_DATADIR path to sattools directory
• ST_TLEDIR path to TLE directory