Not exactly what you're looking for, but spacecraft can use optical star trackers which compare what they see to a catalogue of known stars to determine orienta

Not exactly what you're looking for, but spacecraft can use optical star trackers which compare what they see to a catalogue of known stars to determine orientation. See, for instance: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/space-systems/satellite-components/star-trackers/ https://www.rocketlabusa.com/space-systems/satellite-compone... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker