SatelliteCameraViewer

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

Description

This 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.

Modules

The code starts with satellite_camera_viewer().

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