The Meade Autostar II (and presumably other telescope controllers) has a nifty feature: The ability to point at and follow a satellite in the sky. I've done it once with my LX200, and I hope to try it with the Meade at Onan. I was visually able to actually see the shape and colors of the ISS as it was moving quickly in the sky.
This relates to this thread because I needed to enter recent orbital elements into the Autostar II for this to work, then I just needed to select "ISS" and press "GOTO". I was able to obtain the orbital elements from the Heavens Above / ISS / Orbit page.
https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.asp ... 000&tz=CST
The orbit data is extracted from the following two-line orbital elements:
1 25544U 98067A 19206.95507013 .00016717 00000-0 10270-3 0 9027
2 25544 51.6390 168.9328 0006639 180.7328 179.3814 15.51017206 21268
Epoch (UTC): 25 July 2019 22:55:18
Eccentricity: 0.0006639
inclination: 51.6390°
perigee height: 409 km
apogee height: 418 km
right ascension of ascending node: 168.9328°
argument of perigee: 180.7328°
revolutions per day: 15.51017206
mean anomaly at epoch: 179.3814°
orbit number at epoch: 2126
All but two of the orbital elements had the same name on Heavens Above and in the Autostar II. For the remaining two, the naming was confusing, but with a little deduction, I was able to figure out which number fit the required orbital element. Next time I do this on the Autostar II, I'll write it all down and add it to this thread.
Matt