Hi!

This sounds great!

You could use a script to load a texture that e.g. covers 1x1 or 4x4
degrees and shows your scanning pattern. See Scripting API, function
loadSkyImage:

http://stellarium.org/doc/head/classStelMainScriptAPI.html#a66ce7ef6ee92961e42d558ea10f77ce6

To create the texture you could use any programmable graphics library like
ImageMagick, or a PostScript graphic converted to PNG, your possibilities
are many.

HTH, Georg.


On Di, 29.09.2015, 19:01, Harm Munk wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> We have hooked up Stellarium to the Dwingeloo radio telescope. Having
> this connection is great when operating the telescope for the general
> public. After all, radio astronomy can be done in broad daylight, and
> members of the general public often wonder, and ask, where the telescope
> is pointing at. Having Stellarium to show just that information is great!
>
> But the telescope is also often used by amateur radio astronomers for
> radio observing. And we often do that by scanning a pattern in the sky,
> observing each pointing for maybe 10 minutes.
>
> What we would very much like to have is Stellarium showing that pattern,
> in the form of dots/circels, whatever. The telescope control "pointer"
> then shows where the telescope is in the pattern. The pattern is
> generated by the observation control program. This piece of software can
> spit out sky locations in any form we like. And in any file we like we
> any name we like in any location we like. (Well, within certain
> boundaries, of course.) But the question is: how can we get these
> locations being shown in Stellarium?
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>       Harm Munk
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list
> Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel
>




------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Stellarium-pubdevel mailing list
Stellarium-pubdevel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stellarium-pubdevel

Reply via email to