GOTO telescope using arduino and Stellarium

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My plan is to create GOTO-Telescope using arduino or any other equivalent controller with stellarium, for targeting and tracking the celestial objects .

Recent update:
Successfully Pulling the data from stellarium using python script 

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Successfully getting Alt Az data from stellarium, so you can directly feed the data Arduino to move stepper motors

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Screenshot from 2021-12-13 17-43-52.png Pulling the Al Az data from stellarium Portable Network Graphics (PNG) - 642.64 kB - 12/13/2021 at 12:14		Preview

Screenshot from 2021-12-13 17-43-46.png Portable Network Graphics (PNG) - 640.68 kB - 12/13/2021 at 12:14		Preview

Screenshot from 2021-12-13 17-43-37.png Portable Network Graphics (PNG) - 628.38 kB - 12/13/2021 at 12:14		Preview

Components

1 × ARDUINO MEGA
1 × NEO-6M GPS MODULE
1 × STPPER MOTORS WITH DRIVERS
1 × POWER SUPPLY UNIT
1 × ELECTRONICS MISC

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daz_aii wrote 02/16/2023 at 15:54

hi, do you have a copy of the code used please, doing the same project. thanks

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WILLIAM wrote 05/20/2022 at 04:18

How do you get this data from stellarium. Using api ?

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shashikanth wrote 09/16/2022 at 10:01

Yes WILLIAM. From stellarium Remote server API

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Dimdimtri wrote 11/07/2022 at 14:42

Hello, congratulations for your project. I wanted to know if it was possible to see the python used to recover the data and the use for the arduino? Thanks in advance

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GOTO telescope using arduino and Stellarium

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