diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8ee6d20..5fd1c85 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,6 +2,25 @@ **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. -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. +This software will take over the satellite tracking functionality of my [sattools](https://github.com/cbassa/sattools). By porting the functionality to *python*, and using [astropy](https://github.com/astropy/astropy), and [opencv](https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), the software will be easier to install and operate. -This repository will primarily be used for development, and will rely, for the moment, on progams from the https://github.com/cbassa/sattools repository. +This repository will primarily be used for development, and will rely, for the moment, on programs from the [sattools](https://github.com/cbassa/sattools) repository. + +## Todo +Features to be implemented. + +#### High priority +* Use sunset/sunrise times for starting/stopping data acquisition. +* Manual and automatic astrometric calibration. +* Recognize unidentified satellite/meteor tracks using [3D Hough transform](http://www.ipol.im/pub/art/2017/208/). + +#### Medium priority +* Pause data acquisition of the current line-of-sight (alt/az) is in the Earth's shadow for a particular orbital altitude. +* Investigate sensitivity loss of `significance=(max-mean)/sigma` if the four frame images are stored as 8bit integers instead of floats. + + +#### Low priority +* Implement python based star finding (stick with *source extractor* for now). +* Migrate to [python based SGP4/SDP4 algorithms](https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/python-sgp4) +* Use masks to mask unilluminated CCD areas. +* Investigate automatic submission of IOD measurements to [SeeSat-L](http://www.satobs.org/seesat/).