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1. #Stellarium telescope control reticle a few degrees off full#
2. #Stellarium telescope control reticle a few degrees off software#

Part of the reason for the extended time span is many frames of the mosaic were shot, processed, and released as their own individual pieces each of the many astronomical features impressive in its own right. Of course, it wasn’t an absolutely continuous effort to make this one image over those twelve years.

#Stellarium telescope control reticle a few degrees off full#

The photograph, which we highly suggest you go check out in its full glory, has been in progress since 2009, features 1250 total hours of exposure time, and spans across 125 degrees of sky. We can hardly imagine completing a project after more than a decade, but seeing the breathtaking results of ’s gigapixel composite image of our galaxy might just make us reconsider. It’s the finishing part that many of us have trouble with. Then again…who said this technique had to be limited to optical observations? As the StarPointer is an open hardware project, you could always integrate the tech into that DIY radio telescope you’ve always dreamed of building in the backyard.Ĭontinue reading “StarPointer Keeps Scope On Target With Stellarium“ → Posted in Peripherals Hacks, Space Tagged accelerometer, amateur astronomy, astronomy, magnetometer, stm32, telescope While we wouldn’t recommend looking at a bright computer screen right before trying to pick out dim objects in your telescope’s eyepiece, we can certainly see the appeal of this “virtual” finderscope.

#Stellarium telescope control reticle a few degrees off software#

Combined with a known latitude and longitude, this allows the software to show where the telescope is currently pointed in the night sky.Īs demonstrated in the video after the break, this provides real-time feedback which is easy to understand even for the absolute beginner: all you need to do is slew the scope around until the object you want to look at it under the crosshairs. As the ADX元45 accelerometer and HMC5883L magnetometer inside the STM32F103C8 powered gadget detect motion, the angle data is sent to Stellarium - an open source planetarium program. Instead of a small optical scope, his StarPointer is an electronic device that can determine the orientation of the telescope it’s mounted to. Even if your target is too small or faint to see in the finderscope, just being able to get your primary telescope pointed at the right celestial neighborhood is a huge help.īut still thought he could improve on things a bit. The low magnification of the finderscope offers a far wider field of view than the primary telescope, which makes it much easier to find small objects in the sky.

On astronomical telescopes of even middling power, a small “finderscope” is often mounted in parallel to the main optics to assist in getting the larger instrument on target.