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Originally Posted by Pazuzu

I guess I meant than *other* than the ISS (which we've all seen photos of, transiting the sun, etc) every other satellite is tiny and will be unresolved. Even the ISS is only big enough to see something under somewhat idea situations (high overhead). Once you get something like his 5SE scope cranking away at a degree a second in two axis, the mount will be shaking enough that it might not even be able to resolve the ISS...

Ah, ok, I assumed it was something that I wasn't understanding about what you were trying to say. I was pretty sure that would be the kind of thing that you would know.

I assume the best bet for something like this is a decent web cam where the EP would normally go, then track however you can.

The way that I did it that one time was cool for a 1 time thing, but otherwise not something to do repeatedly.

What you really need is something like the guns from the Millennium Falcon that you can sit in and track with a telescope mounted in place of a gun where you just sit in-place and the whole thing follows your object through the sky while you observe.