It doesn't support ASCOM for total observatory integration, but it does support a number of telescopes, including CelestronSky-Watcher and Meade. The computerized telescope support is lacking. I use the angle tool, computerized telescope support, and ocular extensively. Stellarium can be extended with plugins, and comes with several out of the starting gate. What it does do, it does relatively well. There are a lot of times when you don't want to wait for Starry Night Pro and all it's features to load just to discover where a particular planet is located. It's rather short of features, compared with commercial programs like Starry Night Pro. What I wanna automate is importing a digital elevation model (many countries offer this under a liberal license), and perhaps stitching the aforementioned photos into the Stellarium landscape (although I bet this provides little actual value).Stellarium is short and sweet, to the point, just the way I like an application.

I open the landscape, set the location, and then check out where the sun is in the sky at several times per year. Then I go to my country's mapping authority website and find the property and the same landmarks and buildings, and simply re-create them as super-crude rectangles in a Stellarium landscape. Short summary: I go see the property, take properly geolocated photos in several important parts of it, trying to keep the camera level and pointed in known directions (or verift that the compass is calibrated), and trying to keep easily visible landmarks and buildings in view. Your comment made me want to get this done though, thanks :-)

I've been meaning to hack together some scripts to automate the whole process, with an accompanying writeup, but I've been lazy.

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