/stellarium-control

Use Stellarium to send slew instructions to a telescope controller over tcp.

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stellarium-control

Use Stellarium to send slew instructions to a telescope controller over tcp. The target telescope system is the Acre Road 21-cm telescope (colloquially the 'SRT' in memory of a deceased predecessor), controlled by Norman's QP code on an arduino. See http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/distrib/qp/doc/index.html.

Currently just some test files to show proof of principle.

To do:

  • send serial messages to QP reflecting the slew command received from Stellarium
  • receive pointing data from QP and relay it back to Stellarium for the graticule
  • gui allowing tracking on/off and up/down/left/right nudges to check the pointing offsets
  • auto startup and shutdown with Stellarium
  • simple full control with remote stellarium: tracking always on. If alt<0 then stow.