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From: Dave Walden
Date: 2010 Sep 12, 06:21 -0700
"angles from the images. This is not rocket science."
Actually it is. Star trackers are widely used in space and available off the shelf from multiple vendors.
Interestingly, the software usually handles the LIS mode. (Lost in Space) it has somehow lost any orientation information and reverts to a global image matching method.
http://www.ballaerospace.com/page.jsp?page=1
http://www.aeroastro.com/index.php/components/minature-star-tracker-mst
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/odin/Pictures/hardware/hologram/images/startracker.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/odin/Pictures/index.html&usg=__pN2qaP9oi3nB_CERBVVS5CFx0qY=&h=447&w=300&sz=129&hl=en&start=9&zoom=1&tbnid=pg6Th01jHHBlmM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dstar%2Btracker%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DG%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1440%26bih%3D683%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1
(and many other when searching google images for star tracker)
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