A star camera and aspect determination system for balloon borne payloads

Details A star camera and aspect determination system for balloon borne payloads A star camera and aspect determination system for balloon borne payloads

Feb 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987nimpa.254..186h&link_type=abstract

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 254, Issue 1, p. 186-191.

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A self-contained aspect system has been developed to record and analyze star fields and report the pointing direction of a payload which uses an altitude azimuth pointing system. This system uses a commercially available solid-state CID television camera and a custom-built microcomputer to take ``pictures'' of star fields and compare them with position information contained in an onboard star catalog to compute the right ascension, declination, azimuth, and altitude of the payload with 0.1° accuracy. This paper describes the hardware and software of the system and reports on the results of the first balloon flight.

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