telescope coordinates calculation script
"Hans Off!" is the name of a university project wherein we must create an automatic telescope that can photograph a variety of local planets & moons and distant stars. The script that is hosted online is used for determining telescope orientation over a desired period of time. Locally, on a Raspberry Pi, are the scripts for retrieving GPS coordinates and time information (that the web script will (eventually) need) and for controlling the telescope based on the calculated results. Instructions for setting this up for yourself (and other documentation) will be made available as the project nears completion (deadline: May 2024), but for now enjoy the manual approach! With the above tool alone, you can still manually find celestial bodies, so I hope it is useful! (Note: stars database only contains stars within a certain belt above the Lubbock sky (24/7) and 96 named stars... so if you are not in a similar latitude, there may not be some of your desired celestial bodies... sorry!)
If you have a bug report, want to use the system but it is down, or have some feedback/suggestion, please feel free to contact me via the social links on my main page. For bug reports, please send me a screenshot of your query, the time of your query (in UTC or in your time zone, if you're fine with that), and what the error message might be. Remember: this is a school project first and foremost, so edge cases that do not apply to the project may take a while to fix.
For the current list of available stars, click the plot below. This will prompt you to download the CSV file. All data in that table courtesy of the European Space Agency