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Telescope + Raspberry Pi + Stellarium = iTelescope

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  • 28-01-2016 5:34am
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    Bongalongherb
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    I found this video interesting by using the Raspberry pi with Stellarium for astronomy. Great little project for anyone that's interested and that has a Raspberry pi board.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRAF6LnHk1A


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    Mr Bloat
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    Wow, that's amazing. This just went to the top of my to do list. Thanks OP.


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    Thargor
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    Telescope and the Pi bit is easy, its installing the servos to move it with any accuracy that would be the hard part, or does that model of Sky Watcher come ith them already installed?


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    Popoutman
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    I've got something similar already set up.

    I've a C6N 6" f/5 Newt on a Celestron AVX mount, and using a Samsung SCB-4000 camera in the focuser. Connected via serial cable to the handset I have a SkySafari Skyfi box, and I'm using SkySafari Pro 4 on an Amazon Fire 7 tablet.

    Tap on target on tablet, watch scope slew to object, watch object appear on the screen. I can see galaxies down to 15th mag at least with the 10sec exposures available to me pretty much in real time, and I can actually go quasar hunting with this setup. It's pretty nifty.


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    Popoutman
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    I've got something similar already set up.

    I've a C6N 6" f/5 Newt on a Celestron AVX mount, and using a Samsung SCB-4000 camera in the focuser. Connected via serial cable to the handset I have a SkySafari Skyfi box, and I'm using SkySafari Pro 4 on an Amazon Fire 7 tablet.

    Tap on target on tablet, watch scope slew to object, watch object appear on the screen. I can see galaxies down to 15th mag at least with the 10sec exposures available to me pretty much in real time, and I can actually go quasar hunting with this setup. It's pretty nifty.


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