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README.md

Spacecruft stphot

stphot is a set of python programs to detect and identify satellite tracks on photographic observations of the night sky, and measure the satellite positions to determine and/or update their orbits.

Install

Install thusly.

sudo apt install python3-virtualenv python3-pip python3-dev

git clone https://spacecruft.org/spacecruft/stphot
# Or use upstream:
git clone https://github.com/cbassa/stphot

Optionally, set up python virtual environment:

cd stphot/
virtualenv -p python3 env
source env/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip

Install python dependencies.

pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Configuration

See stvid.

Usage

Hardware

gphoto

Notes.

python3 -m gphoto2
python3 ./env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gphoto2/examples/camera-summary.py

INDI

ASI/ZWO

Proprietary SDK required currently for use.

Upstream

This is a clone of cbassa's stphot. See README-upstream.md.

stphot:

© 2012-2022 Cees Bassa

License

Same as upstream license, GPLv3.

© 2022, Jeff Moe