Included with KStars is Ekos astrophotography suite, a complete astrophotography solution that can control all INDI devices including numerous telescopes, CCDs, DSLRs, focusers, filters, and a lot more.

time graphs for any object, print high-quality sky charts, and gain access to lots of information and resources to help you explore the universe! Find out interesting objects in the 'What's up Tonight' tool, plot altitude vs. For students and teachers, it supports adjustable simulation speeds in order to view phenomena that happen over long timescales, the KStars Astrocalculator to predict conjunctions, and many common astronomical calculations.įor the amateur astronomer, it provides an observation planner, a sky calendar tool, and an FOV editor to calculate field of view of equipment and display them.

The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. This code is still pretty new, and there will likely be issues when connecting to specific hardwares.KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software. Once you define the type of link between the scope and phone, this is basically it! Stellarium Mobile Plus will try hard to automatically recognize the protocol, the type of mount, and mount status and all other available information about the hardware whenever possible. SynScan app really is a TCP connection to a local socket opened by the SynScan app. SynScan App running on the phone: this also currently work on Android only. This one works only on Android, because iOS doesn’t allow apps to use Bluetooth SPP. Currently bluetooth 2.0, using SPP profile. This covers Wifi enabled telescopes, or LAN connection.īluetooth connection. Network connection (serial over a TCP socket). In order to have your phone talk to the telescope controller, you first need to connect it to your mount or hand controller. or any compatible telescopes (most of the current GOTO telescope are compatible with one of these protocols).

This new update finally allows to control a GOTO telescope directly from the phone, by using NexStar/SynScan or LX200 serial protocols.

We have just released version 1.1.0 of Stellarium Mobile Plus, featuring major improvements to the telescope control capabilities.

Stellarium telescope control accuracy