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-# stvid
-Satellite tracking with video cameras
+# STVID
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+**stvid** will be a set of *python* programs to detect and identify satellite tracks on video observations of the night sky, and measure the satellite positions to determine and/or update their orbits.
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+This software will take over the satellite tracking functionality of https://github.com/cbassa/sattools. By porting the functionality to *python*, the hope is that the software is easier to install and use.
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+This repository will primarily be used for development, and will rely, for the moment, on progams from the https://github.com/cbassa/sattools repository.