Dear Harm Munk, 2015-09-29 23:01 GMT+06:00 Harm Munk <harm.m...@camras.nl>:
> 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! > 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? > You can use scripts for visualization place of the "pointer" on the sky as suggested Georg. It's fast method. Other method, still the fast - using Telescope Control plugins for manage virtual telescope, who can (in latest betas) visualize rectangle of FOV of the telescope+CCD and he understand the sequence of observable points. And last method (slow) - create a plugin (or update Telescope Control plugin) for management of the radio telescopes and enhancement feature of saving data from Stellarium. -- With best regards, Alexander
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