Can't lock telescope tracking to a satellite
Bug #1019426 reported by
Howard Shaw
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Stellarium |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Petr Kubánek |
Bug Description
This is a wishlist item, not really a bug but I can only see how to submit bugs.
After configuring the satellites plugin a satellite can be located and held at screen centre with the Search window (F3) and space bar. I want to slew my telescope to the satellite and follow it but CRTL+n or ALT+n takes the telescope to the location of the satellite at the instant the command was given, but do not track as the satellite moves. My drive can certainly keep up with a satellite and it would be fun to photograph ISS or HST which have a well defined shape.
Changed in stellarium: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
tags: | added: telescope-control |
Changed in stellarium: | |
status: | New → Opinion |
Changed in stellarium: | |
assignee: | nobody → Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) |
tags: | added: plugin |
Changed in stellarium: | |
assignee: | Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) → Nick Fedoseev (nick-ut2uz) |
Changed in stellarium: | |
status: | Opinion → New |
Changed in stellarium: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Bogdan,
I was trying to track the satellites using virtual telescope and have same issue as Howard. I have looked at the plugin wiki page and there's a note saying that tracking satellites is unsupported and tracking planets is not advised.
I'm not a programmer, but I looked at the code and TelescopeContro l::slewTelescop eToSelectedObje ct() which gets called when ctrl+{1-9} is pressed does the job pretty well (I also tried pressing ctrl+1 few times to trigger the event and it seemed to work). If I understand correctly when telescope is moved to a selected object it doesn't track it, rather just sits in the sky (although it moves with the planets and the moon, but gets out of sync pretty quickly), perhaps checking if the selected object isn't moving along the equator and triggering slew would be the way to go? I'm sorry if this sounds lame (;