SatelliteCameraViewer

SatelliteCameraViewer is a full sky star chart showing the view from a camera mounted on a earth orbiting satellite.

Release v0.5.1. (Installation)

Description

SatelliteCameraViewer is a Python program using Tkinter, matplotlib.pyplot, PyVista, and various astronomy, scientific, and satellite packages (i.e. Astropy, SciPy, and SGP4). It’s goal is to run a simulation of a satellite in earth orbit with an attached camera and caculate which stars would be seen in the cameras sensor. Visualization is provided by default with camera paramaters (like focus length) being capable of being adjusted on the fly.

Install Guide

Install is via standard Python methods; however, you can also install from source or github directly. See specific install pages below.

• Installation
  • Run from source tree
  • Run via pip install
  • Run via pypi and regular pip install
  • Safe pip install with venv

Modules etc

Everything starts with SatelliteCameraViewer and the viewer.py file. The camera, satellite 3d image, star display, and controls are kicked off from there.

• All modules
• SatelliteCameraViewer
• CameraImage
• Cubesat
• SatelliteCamera
• StarCatalog

Index

• Index

• Module Index