I've spent some time working on the installation of StarPi. With using the Pi already, it seemed logical to just build one. I didn't want to spend that kind of money. I looked into the price of telescope tracking systems and found it was quite easy to spend hundreds of dollars on a system. It was the solution I was looking for, but it brought with it another porblem. This acts as a client to telescope to send Goto commands and receive co-ordinates to display the current position the telescope is looking at in the sky. It's full of features, but the one that drew my attention was the telescope control addin. If you don't know it and have an interest in Astronomy, check it out. I had no idea what I was actually looking at.Īfter some surfing I came across Stellarium, An open source sky map. After a little setting up I was able to view the sky at night through the Pi.
After browsing Thigyverse I came across the PiPiece, an adapter to mount the Raspberry Pi camera to the telescope, by dmpalmer. I was fortunate to be given an old telescope, At the time I'd just finished my 3D printer and needed something to print.
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