Notices

Originally Posted by attila77

Guys, the N900 (or any handheld non-DSLR class) camera is unable to take images of stars without a tripod or sorts, so there is little to integrate. It can guess the ALT component from the accelerometers, but AZ is missing without a dedicated compass (unless you're running in the direction of the sky you're interested in and using the GPS to get a bearing )

Originally Posted by attila77

Live view does not help this... Simply, in handheld operation, stellar objects are indiscernible from CCD noise, except for the Moon, and maaaybe brighter planets that are in opposition at the moment.

What is possible is to try and make an as accurate as possible ALT measurement (like hold N900 an at arm's length and cover/center the object you want to identify). Then, knowing location, time we can narrow the number of objects that are known, observable and at the given ALT (you are supposed to point at something interesting, not a black patch of sky). For example, using this method you could always ID planets and probably some of the more famous/prominent constellations. Not exactly robust or universal, but that could work - but then again, you don't need a camera for that

Another interesting point would be to see how well inertial navigation works, i.e. how much can we move around until we must re-sync to the known object (=AZ).

Originally Posted by jsbigs

Okay, got it working. All I can say is wow! This is truly amazing! Thank you shuairan (and xalioth)!!

Just figured out how to zoom in and out: CTRL+ Up or Down arrow. Superb!

Originally Posted by shuairan

if you have problems with conflicting packages maybe this here will help:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43357
try this as root(for every conflicting package):
apt-get install libqt-maemo5-maemo5
apt-get install ilbqt4-maemo5-phonon
apt-get install libqt4-maemo5-xmlpatterns
if you don't know how to do that you probably should disable extras-devel and don't use it ;-)

Originally Posted by shuairan

Try to update and then report here if it works :-)

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oh theres a problem with the actual version, forget to make the changes to the default configuration. if you had the previous version the config file in /home/user/.stellarium/config.ini it will work fine. for new users, i'll fix it in the next release, until that change the values in the config.ini file:

Code:

181,182c181,182
< screen_h                            = 768
< screen_w                            = 1024
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> screen_h                            = 480
> screen_w                            = 800

Originally Posted by f2thak

this app ROCKS but is BUGGY as HELL