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How complicated/expensive would it be to build an open source star tracker nowadays? How accurate of a fix could you get just by pointing a phone at a sky? Or a
by tgsovlerkhgsel 3y ago
How complicated/expensive would it be to build an open source star tracker nowadays? How accurate of a fix could you get just by pointing a phone at a sky? Or a DSLR on a commercial gimbal?
- LeoPanthera 3y agoYour wish is my command. http://openstartracker.org http://openstartracker.org
- vdfs 3y agoThe accuracy back then: > were highly accurate, able to lock onto up to 11 stars (even in daytime) and resolve the craft's position to less than 300 feet (91 m)
- supportengineer 3y agoI'm presuming these were electro-optical star trackers. Compared to that, doing it with a CCD seems like cheating.
- xjlin0 3y agoToo bad the star tracker on my phone still relies on GPS instead of electro-opitical geolocation.