How do I display text RA/DEC file on Stellarium

[Dr Rich Russel]

 I am trying to display the pointing location (RA/DEC) of my telescope on Stellarium. I am producing a text output every time the telescope is moved. This can be configured to time and RA/DEC. How do I take the text output and automatically display on Stellarium?

[Georg Zotti]

The Telescope plugin is described in the Stellarium User Guide.

Displaying arbitrary strings from external sources is not supported.

[Dr. Rich Russel]

Can I produce a plot of RA/DEC positions from a file?

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[Brian Kloppenborg]

Rich, (adding Stellarium group back in)

My new telescope control plugin is functional, but quite experimental. It works well enough that I can track satellites (see attached), but probably has some bugs I have yet to discover. Before we go down that route, I might suggest taking some more traditional path.

The existing Stellarium Telescope plugin supports ASCOM, INDI, Meade LX200, Celestron, and RTS2 telescopes. If you can make your Arduino "appear" to be one of these devices, it would acquire the benefits of using an existing, well-defined plugin and interoperability with many other applications. For example, you could write an ASCOM (Windows) or INDI (Linux/Mac) interface layer. Both of those would also have the benefit of working with other systems by fitting into a standard ecosystem.

I don't know of any way to display the RA/DEC history. That would be a custom plugin as far as I am aware.

Brian

On 6/3/21 3:25 PM, Dr. Rich Russel wrote:

Brian - yes!

I am using an Arduino to control my AZ/EL rotator. The output of the Arduino is text with UTC and RA/DEC.

I would like to display the RA/DEC with the proper reticle size on Stellarium.

Another alternative is to produce a graphic that displays the RA/DEC history and updates with the new data from the Arduino.

What do you think?

Rich

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From: Brian Kloppenborg <...@gmail.com>
To: Dr Rich Russel <...@netscape.net>
Sent: Thu, Jun 3, 2021 3:20 pm
Subject: Re: [stellarium] Re: How do I display text RA/DEC file on Stellarium

Rich,

I recently created a new plugin for Stellarium that controls my telescope. The API is network focused, so if you can adapt your code to provide the relevant data, it should "just work". Let me know if you are interested.

Brian Kloppenborg

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[Dwight Phillips]

Hi All, I am wanting to write my own driver for my telescope. Is it possible to read Stellarium output file directly into my Arduino board? Need desperate help. Dwight 

[Dwight Phillips]

I would very much be interested in any methods that will give me a clue on how to connect Stellarium up directly to the Arduino.

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[Georg Zotti]

Fastest path:

Google: stellarium arduino