So great! What I would do next is to add two stepper motors and by adding coordinates, or by selecting a target on stellarium to drive the telescope there automatically.
a future upgrade you may want to consider would be replacing your potentiometers with stepper motors, that way you could precisely move it by software.
Im in the process of building my own mount. I have a 12 inch newtonian im putting on it. Im hoping to just control it with stellarium on my phone or laptop.
Hello Simon, It is very nice to see your video. I am being thinking of motorizing my hand made 5" Newtonian reflecting telescope with Dobsonian mounting. I love your way of pursuing things without using any sophisticated engineering.
hey Simon, I'd like to have a complete wireing diagram for this set up, I won't be using stelarium though due to having down loaded a copy and finding a "Trojan" in it. the telescope I will be working with is a 12 inch/305 mm Orion, I will be building a complete new mount including worm gears with slip clutch.. I also plan to up grade the guidance with an auto guide scope.
This is absolutely awesome. I have the same telescope and have been looking for something like this. How easy, or hard, is it for a complete novice to set this up? Any chance of you emailing me a complete parts list and the best place to get them? I know I am asking a lot but I'm a bit desperate... Lol. Kind regards, Daniel
J'ai regardé la première vidéo finalement vu les 2 autres. SUPER. Un peu plus de détails du matériel utilisé (et aussi le software) serait le bienvenu. Serait-il possible de motoriser votre système. Mais de toute façon vos vidéos donnent envie. Merci..
I was searching for an automated photo taking with arduino, for example everynight i wanna take photos of sirius till morning in every 5 min ?Is it possible ?
It would have been nice to see you control the telescope from the laptop, i.e pick an object in Stellarium(?) and have the telescope orient itself automatically.
I agree that'd be cool but I believe this type of system simon designed will be more functional for the AltAz type mounts in the field. Don't have to wait on slow slew times. Simply explore stellarium and push to. If this were an EQ mount though, it would be more useful to have a lock on/tracking mount like you said.
Fantastic - thx. I'm not familiar with raspberry Pi : why python ? How do you interface with stellarium ? Could you you give a starting point/specs on that issue ?
great stuff. i was considering doing something similar untill I gave up on dobsonians. Your solution came out very elegant, most of the ideas I had were much more clunky, but I had no experience with programing and I was making it up as I went along. Where are you taking this next? Any new funciton you´re considering? once again: good job :)
Great project Simon. Given the timeline that I am watching this after a while, where are you in terms of this project? I would love to see what latest features you have cooked up.
hello I have a SKYWATCHER DOBSON 203/1200 SKYLINER and I would like advice on which (P U S H TO or other system) and which encoder? And is it compulsory to have a laptop to do the encoders? I am a beginner and your help would be very precious. if you had the links of the pages it would be even better thank you. have a good day.
Is there any chance you could do a full on tutorial of how everything is wired together, as well as a parts list? Information is very sparse online. It would be greatly appreciated :D
this is an amazing project....i am working on something similar..just that its an eq mount. how do yiu connect trellarium to the raspberry pi...???and make the scope slep from one object to another and track it through the night...??
Is it possible to control the telescope with a USB Joytick connected through a PC? Is it an open-source project? Could you provide the source code for it? Thanks in advance!
Hi Simon, great work and thanks for sharing your work! have you had any thoughts about motorisation? I have the 200P dob and thinking about ways to motorise the base to make a tracking alt/az base!
It should be possible to make a remote-controlled telescope this way, with a camera connected to the RPi. I'm actually thinking about making something like this when I have more money.
What a cool project! I bought a 10 inch DOB, I guess the same one as yours and really wanting to give it more functionality. Just a newbie question: will all these electronics survive dew exposure? What about cold weather? All in all, seems like a great project to delve into if the budget allows it.
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This is well done and I appreciate that it’s open source. Open source could be the legacy of humanity because of people like you.
So great! What I would do next is to add two stepper motors and by adding coordinates, or by selecting a target on stellarium to drive the telescope there automatically.
@SaltyBrains wow ! brilliant ... is this not a thing ???
Stars is something, that will unite people in future! Great vid, and project!
very nice Raspberry Pi project. I have an Orange Pi 5 and have plans to do a similar Stellarium, GoTo, PHD2 and this video really helps. Thank you.
Swap the green LCD for a red one. Other than that ..... BRILLIANT!!
Or red plastic over the lcd
This is almost the exact project that I had in mind for my pi! Fantastic!
My plan is to use my Pi in Radio Astronomy. I cannot wait.
a future upgrade you may want to consider would be replacing your potentiometers with stepper motors, that way you could precisely move it by software.
Im in the process of building my own mount. I have a 12 inch newtonian im putting on it. Im hoping to just control it with stellarium on my phone or laptop.
Hello Simon, It is very nice to see your video. I am being thinking of motorizing my hand made 5" Newtonian reflecting telescope with Dobsonian mounting. I love your way of pursuing things without using any sophisticated engineering.
hey Simon, I'd like to have a complete wireing diagram for this set up, I won't be using stelarium though due to having down loaded a copy and finding a "Trojan" in it.
the telescope I will be working with is a 12 inch/305 mm Orion, I will be building a complete new mount including worm gears with slip clutch.. I also plan to up grade the guidance with an auto guide scope.
This is absolutely awesome. I have the same telescope and have been looking for something like this.
How easy, or hard, is it for a complete novice to set this up? Any chance of you emailing me a complete parts list and the best place to get them?
I know I am asking a lot but I'm a bit desperate... Lol.
Kind regards,
Daniel
Knowledgeable video 💖💖💖🎉 thank you for sharing 🙏😀🎉🎉🎉
Could you make a tutorial on how to make it
simply brilliant Simon
That is absolutely amazing. Now I have to finally go buy that dobby so I can do this too!
Awesome project..... wow!
wow what a great system you made. recently i bought my first scope. i have a rasp pi 3 laying around somewhere. do you have a guide how to make this.
Классная штука фотографировать спутники и КА!
Did you ever make a build video?
Where can i purchase this ...looking to purchase a skywalker 10 inch scope
Can I make this with a Sky Watcher Heritage 130P Telescope? That is an awesome contraption you made and looks very cool. Congrats!!
J'ai regardé la première vidéo finalement vu les 2 autres. SUPER. Un peu plus de détails du matériel utilisé (et aussi le software) serait le bienvenu. Serait-il possible de motoriser votre système. Mais de toute façon vos vidéos donnent envie. Merci..
I was searching for an automated photo taking with arduino, for example everynight i wanna take photos of sirius till morning in every 5 min ?Is it possible ?
Very nice indeed.
Does anyone know what the command set is from stellarium? Im making my own telescope controller using a raspberry pi. Thanks!
It would have been nice to see you control the telescope from the laptop, i.e pick an object in Stellarium(?) and have the telescope orient itself automatically.
I agree that'd be cool but I believe this type of system simon designed will be more functional for the AltAz type mounts in the field. Don't have to wait on slow slew times. Simply explore stellarium and push to. If this were an EQ mount though, it would be more useful to have a lock on/tracking mount like you said.
Fantastic - thx. I'm not familiar with raspberry Pi : why python ? How do you interface with stellarium ? Could you you give a starting point/specs on that issue ?
great stuff. i was considering doing something similar untill I gave up on dobsonians. Your solution came out very elegant, most of the ideas I had were much more clunky, but I had no experience with programing and I was making it up as I went along.
Where are you taking this next? Any new funciton you´re considering?
once again: good job :)
Awesome stuff Simon
why do you use ra and dec when you just have to calculate alt and az
Great project Simon. Given the timeline that I am watching this after a while, where are you in terms of this project? I would love to see what latest features you have cooked up.
hello I have a SKYWATCHER DOBSON 203/1200 SKYLINER and I would like advice on which (P U S H TO or other system) and which encoder? And is it compulsory to have a laptop to do the encoders? I am a beginner and your help would be very precious. if you had the links of the pages it would be even better thank you. have a good day.
hello great video. Where can we find wire to Pi ?
do you plan to use the raepberry pi 3.
Is there any chance you could do a full on tutorial of how everything is wired together, as well as a parts list? Information is very sparse online. It would be greatly appreciated :D
this is an amazing project....i am working on something similar..just that its an eq mount. how do yiu connect trellarium to the raspberry pi...???and make the scope slep from one object to another and track it through the night...??
can this be work with a German eq mount?
where in the UK are you ? as I'd love to look further into this.
Another thought .... with GPS receivers being sooooooo cheap, why not add one to the Pi and use it for time and location?
You can get an accurate time from it as well instead of relying on the computers time.
Is it possible to control the telescope with a USB Joytick connected through a PC? Is it an open-source project? Could you provide the source code for it?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Simon, great work and thanks for sharing your work! have you had any thoughts about motorisation?
I have the 200P dob and thinking about ways to motorise the base to make a tracking alt/az base!
hi do you have wireing to pi ?
will this setup work in outer space (to trace sun)
or will there be any error due to altitude change?????
plz answer soon its urgent.
Nice, very interesting project!!
It should be possible to make a remote-controlled telescope this way, with a camera connected to the RPi. I'm actually thinking about making something like this when I have more money.
Great Job
the name of telescope?
cool setup!
Awesome! Good job!
Really amazing
hi simon, that is awsome!
have you got an idiot proof tutorial, i never heard of rasberry pi until i watched your video.
thanks.
...thats pretty cool....thumbs up....
This is fucking amazing.
Wow very nice Projekt :-)
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! 😮😮😮
What a cool project! I bought a 10 inch DOB, I guess the same one as yours and really wanting to give it more functionality. Just a newbie question: will all these electronics survive dew exposure? What about cold weather? All in all, seems like a great project to delve into if the budget allows it.
WOW!! COOL!
whats the folder of doom lmao come on please tell :P
brilliant!!
It would be cooler to have a motorised telescope
genial!!!
Has Sky-Watcher offered you a job yet?
Thankyou
Wow
He is running ubuntu operating system
My God he's from Liverpool
wooowwwww....
fuck yhea!
incredible project. just awsome use of python. Wow