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
