Controlling a telescope with Cellestia

[codrinb]

Hi all,

I know that there are already commercial software that can point a telescope to a certain body or location in the sky.

I am wondeing how feasible would be to create a plugin/extension to Cellestia that could do the same thing

I for one believe that would be very cool.

Such a plugin could become a commmercial option, maybe Meade or others could bundle it with the telescope.

Just another thought

Cheers!
-Codrin

[steffens]

Try a search in this forum for "telescope control" and you will find quite a lot of threads on this topic, for example:

http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7853&highlight=telescope+control

http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59&highlight=telescope+control

http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1390&highlight=telescope+control

I'm not interested in adding telescope control. Celestia is interesting because it's a 3D space simulation that allows you to travel through the solar system and beyond. Telescope control is a feature that I think works best in a program designed around Earth-based viewing.

Telescope control is probably a feature that won't make it into Celestia. There are quite a few programs out there that do this already (and are probably better suited for it than Celestia.) Also, I don't own a telescope that connects to my computer, so I'd have a hard time implementing telescope control anyhow :>

[t00fri]

Just from the layout of Celestia, this issue is not very sensible. Celestia is certainly not a platform for EVERYTHING. It's way more reasonable to implement telescope control into EARTHBOUND precision ephemeris programs like Xephem, Stellarium and others.

Bye Fridger

[selden]

You might want to investigate Iris,. It includes telescope control and image processing, but not a sky map.
http://astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm

[Vincent]

Codrin,

Telescope control is available in the last version of Stellarium...
http://www.stellarium.org/