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UROP — Satellite-Tracking Telescope

An Imperial summer UROP tracking and imaging satellites with a motorised portable telescope — computing a target's path and driving the mount to follow it across the sky.

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A summer UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme) at Imperial College London, working on tracking and imaging satellites with a motorised portable telescope.
Satellite-tracking telescope

Key Details

  • Computing a satellite's apparent path across the sky and driving the telescope mount to follow and photograph it as it passes overhead.
  • Working on the closed-loop pointing and tracking problem: predicting position, commanding the mount, and correcting to keep a fast-moving target in frame.