a plate solving adapter for stellarium
Monitors for new images, plate-solves them locally, and then adjusts Stellarium+Oculars to show the latest image's location on the sky.
Very rough but basically works.
- Stellarium w/ Oculars + Remote Control plugins configured + enabled
- UNIX-like OS
- astrometry.net installed locally, with suitable indexes (see their docs)
- Python >=3.6
- ASIStudio, or just drop
Preview-*.fitfiles in ~/ASIImg/
Install all dependencies, then:
python3 -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
nohup python solve.py &
If things are set up correctly, new FITS images dropped into ~/ASIImg will be plate-solved and Stellarium's view will be moved and zoomed to the area of the image and the Oculars reticle will be rotated to match the image orientation.