Telescope Control for a Meade LX200 Autostar telescope. This is an ongoing project.
- Speed
- Movement
- Zoom.
- Tracking low earth orbit satellites - Tracking math is complete and tested, just need to integrate with telescope controls.
- Kivy - Used for the interface to handle the commands
- PySerial - Used to interface with telescope
Connect to the Telescopes serial port and other end to computers usb. The Telescope is instantiated with a serial port location. Default is '/dev/ttyUSB0' on linux. May be different on your operating system.
Wait for connection to be established via sockets with client and then good to go!
Run the application and then use arrow keys to move telescope. 1,2,3,4 will specify speed.