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Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
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Save CCD FOV, Import MPC Sky Coverage #486

Open alex-w opened 6 years ago

alex-w commented 6 years ago

Original description: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/stellarium/+spec/sky-coverage

This would be amazing.

Basically, when you load up the CCD FOV, there would be an option to save out the CCD location (the red square indicator). So it is tagged with the location and date for later use as an overlay. So you'd be able to load up some date range that that shows all previous saved FOVs for that date range.

It would also be amazing to import the sky coverage of the large observatories found here: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/SkyCoverage.html

They give access to the raw data for the survey's sky coverage. It would be awesome to be able to import their coverage for the last few nights and display it in Stellarium.

This would help amateurs like myself avoid areas the large surveys recently hit easily, so we have a better chance of finding something new :)

alex-w commented 2 years ago

This is a good task for the community to participate in the contribution into Stellarium. Who wants to help us?