GSoC 2019 Idea: Start Pointer with Speech Input

Star Pointer and Optimizations to Go-To Telescopes

Aim To obtain (RA,DEC) coordinates of a heavenly body from the VizieR Catalog using Astroquery of Astropy with Python. Convert these coordinates to cartesian form and a 2 servo setup points to the heavenly body(only for prototyping, real telescopes to be used later). All this will be done in an RPi or arduino+PC.

Student's Contact Info

Email: syedfarhana.ec18@rvce.edu.in
Gitter Username: born-2learn
Github: https://github.com/born-2learn

Skills/Knowledge required

Python
Astropy and Astroquery
NLP for Speech Processing
Raspberry Pi for Prototyping
Arduino and Arduino IDE

Expected results The user speaks the name of the Heavenly object, and the Star Pointing device points to it.

Potential mentor(s) : ~

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