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How complicated/expensive would it be to build an open source star tracker nowadays? How accurate of a fix could you get just by pointing a phone at a sky? Or a DSLR on a commercial gimbal?



Your wish is my command. http://openstartracker.org


The accuracy back then:

> were highly accurate, able to lock onto up to 11 stars (even in daytime) and resolve the craft's position to less than 300 feet (91 m)


I'm presuming these were electro-optical star trackers. Compared to that, doing it with a CCD seems like cheating.


Too bad the star tracker on my phone still relies on GPS instead of electro-opitical geolocation.




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