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An Observatory Control System for the PANOPTES citizen-science project designed to help find transiting exoplanets! :telescope: :stars:
https://pocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Get horizon/obstructions from image #364

Open wtgee opened 6 years ago

wtgee commented 6 years ago

@brendan-o had done some work to automatically find the horizon images from a picture, it would be nice to get that back in.

wtgee commented 4 years ago

This is labelled as a good first issue but is not necessarily super simple.

The basic idea would be to take an image that has a visible obstruction in it and figure out what the altitude and azimuth of that location is given the WCS (or other mount information).

Example obstruction (the Iron Giant!)

Iron Giant