Enhanced Manual Control

When you need to take over control and tell OpticTracker what to track. OpticTracker offers an optimized way of manually pointing the telescope at a moving target with fast response and high precision. Although no longer required by OpticTracker, a joystick is still the most efficient way to tell machines how to move. OpticTracker maps all important commands to joystick axis and buttons. You can do everything without touching the mouse.

It gets better, instead of maneuvering the big telescope, you can control a fast and responsive seeker on the realtime video. Like playing a video game, just make sure the seeker is on top of your target, OpticTracker will makes sure your telescope follows the seeker the best way it can. With a bit of practice, you can track any moving object without even turning on the auto track.

 

Real Time Image Enhancement

OpticTracker is equipped realtime image enhancement technologies such as digital stabilization, realtime frame stacking and digital zooming, providing a bright and stable image of the target in real time. (Note, realtime stacking doesn’t work well on highly dynamic targets)

Dual Camera Automated Tracking

Traditional video tracking softwares depends on specialized electrical and mechanical hardware, which is prohibitively expensive to general consumers. OpticTracker utilizes proprietary self-adjustable computer vision, digital signal processing and control algorithms, making the same task manageable on commercial-off-the-shelf equipments.

Just like how it sounds, at your command, OpticTracker takes over control of your telescope. It automatically acquires and tracks any visible object. In addition to the camera mounted right behind your telescope, you can have a secondary camera with a wider field of view to help you scan larger part of the sky, detect and acquire targets more easily.

Pre-guiding for Satellites, Comets, and More!

You may know exactly where all the interesting celestial objects are, but how about a satellite, a comet or your drone? OpticTracker can use a variety of information to point the telescope to where your target should be, helping you establish a visual lock.

OpticTracker can download satellite orbit data and report to you the exact time they will pass over head. You can follow it rising up from the horizon. When it becomes visible, OpticTracker will get the visual lock.

OpticTracker can also read comet and dwarf planet orbit elements. Use them to pre-guild your telescope, turn on the built in stacking feature, and see if your telescope is powerful enough to pick up the image.

One more thing, for advanced users, you can feed target GPS locations into OpticTracker’s REST API, and all those targets become pre-guide-able.

Watch OpticTracker in action!

OpticTracker is an electro-optical tracking software that enables your computerized telescope to lock on and track any moving object visible through your telescope.

Features


Video User Interface

With OpticTracker, the realtime video is the interface. Click anywhere on the video image, your telescope will point there. Click a target in the video, OpticTracker will lock on it and follow its movement.

All the crucial information you need is also merged with the realtime video stream. There is no need to take your eyes off what you are tracking.

Watch more OpticTracker videos on YouTubehttp://www.youtube.com/user/optictracker/featured

Remote Control (Beta Feature)

If you have a home network, you can run OpticTracker on one computer and control it remotely from another one. All you need on the second computer is a browser.

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