Arduino Telescope GoTo System - completed design 

engineering 2016 award goes to this guy!!! great work!

I enjoy Arduino projects and just learning about telescope motion control. This GoTo System seems like a great place to start getting ideas. 😎 Thank you.

This is EXACTLY wat I was looking for, this is going to be my winter project. Thank you so much for sharing your great project!

Thanks for the tips I'm going to start buying items that you described, I want to do that to my EQ5 mount, and congratulations on your initiative, very good project

Hello Dessislav!!! What a great job!!! I expect to do the same on my old C14...

Building a Smart Phone Camera for a telescope. This idea is basically very easy. I just don't have the tools to built it. The idea is take to the camera lens, software and hardware from a LG7 Thin Q Smartphone and turn it into a telescope eyepiece. The camera lens, hardware and software are already built into the LG7 ThinQ so all that would need to be done is too replicate the software and hardware used to operate the camera mounted in a standard Plossl 25mm housing and amateur astronomers would be able to connect the camera to the telescope and take images with it the same they would if they used a smart phone adapter too connect the phone to the telescope. New types of filters and lens could be developed to screw onto the bottom of the eyepiece as well. Why this type of camera would be great for amateur astronomers is because the camera would see what exactly is being viewed through a standard eyepiece instead of losing images due to low light issues. A camera like this would be perfect for small focal length telescope users who aren't able to get quality images of the night sky as well as being perfect for those who don't want to spend a lot of money on the more expensive cameras designed for larger aperture telescopes. This camera design could be used with any telescope that has an eyepiece.

Im so excited about this project that I watched the whole thing even though I don't speak bulgarian. My Arduino Due it's on its way! great project Dessislav I will be filming my build and will share videos in english (or spanglish rather) in the spirit of helping others.

Really Nice. i´ll be waiting for more information.

Fantastic work.

wonderful. I was trying to do it all. you did it :) congratulations. I have an arduino uno, a 4 axes tb6560 stepper driver and 4 Nema 23 motors, and of course a 6'' Newtonian telescope. but will you give us the instructions, the steps, and the code? I'll be glad if you did. thank you soo much. :)

celestron : give me like $4000 for a 20 year old desgin that I just renewed a little Arduino user with 2 stepper motors :

Wonderful project, please provide the Link to download Arduino code and connection diagram please. It's not available at your provided link in description.

Gents, I'm building a website with instructions, bill of materials and code download: rduinoscope.co.nf/ I assume it will be up and running completely by 1st of May 2016.

Hy great job. This is outstanding. The site is down. How can we accès the page for detailed project pls

This is a GREAT Work of Art a fine job ,however any thoughts of converting to Alt/Az mount or one version for equatorial and another version for Alt/Az . please.

Hi Dessislav,what a huge and impressive work! Thanks for sharing that!I would like to built your project with my eq3.2; RA worm gear is different from DEC worm gear (130 and 65), what should i modify?Thanks again for your fantastic job!Best regardsPierre

Good evening Please I can Installation Other screen Because I did not find ** Touch Module 3.2 "TFT 400 * 240 SD with Shield for Arduino Due **** Please help

Have you got an English version of this important Video ?

I am confused. It appears that it would be a very useful project for me, as my two hobbies are astrophotography and arduino. The displays on the screen and your comments above are all in English, which would tend to indicate that you have a grasp of English. Yet the description is all in your language, with no subtitles ( which could easily be translated into English by Google). i would be very keen to copy your ideas if I could understand it.

Wow.... Im just doing a complete restore on my 8" F/7 Cave and Astrolla GEM, Im very temped to add this to the GEM as full GOTO capability would be awesome!!! This is unreal! I just dont understand how the system knows where the OTA is pointing without encoders....

hi sir i create this project i get an error , ineed your help ,my small request.

saludos , señores, compre una montura ecuatorial que tenia instalado el kit goto rduinoscope y no funciona correctamente , sabeis quien puede repararlo ? gracias . creo que es el jostick se para el motor al cabo de unos segundos de accionar el jostick y bloquea el motor , ya lo he llevado a dos tiendas de la zona pero como si el aparato fuera de marte, nadie quiere reparar... por favor ayuda o algun sitio que pueda comprar el modulo de control goto. mil gracias

Hi friend, what is the possibility of using this system with the EQ5 mount engines themselves? is there any?

Will this 1: 4 reduction work out in my EQ5 mount? thank you

Hello Dessislav, i have just finished to mount the controller, i need to test on the sky! I have seen on github that there is a alpha 9 version; what is the difference with the 8 version? And again, thanks a lot for sharing this impressive work!! With best regards Pierre

and what engine do you recommend and what reductions used in the engines? thanks

Can you host the library pack on some other site? Because that is offline, thx

thank you soooo very much. but the only problem is that I don't understand Bulgarian language. I understand the idea but unfortunately I didn't understand your speech.

Tft screen driver ?

Can be the arduino one r3, rev3 atmega328? thanks

WHY the Temperature Sensor? Thanks!

I am not planning to learn more languages with my 53 years of age so i makes me sad that so many usefull info is not accessable because the unwilling use of english language.

i have been doing some research on these components. and it looks like you got them off aliexpress.com is that true? hehehe

Cool, nice job. Shame i can speak the language.

Fantastic work.