GPS in Stellarium and StellariumScope

[grantboxer (Grant)]

I am using StellariumScope (SS) to drive my mount and I can set the location using my GPS for EQMOD in SS, but that does not update the location in Stellarium. Is there a way to synchronise locations in both pieces of software? Or do I have to do it manually?

[NeilW]

Hi Grant,

I don't think so. I use a Garmin GPS which is read by EQMOD and Alignmaster, but I always manually enter the coordinates into Stellarium. Unless there's a plugin that I'm not aware of.

Cheers,

[grantboxer (Grant)]

Maybe we should suggest it to the Stellarium people to get a GPS plug-in.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by grantboxer

Maybe we should suggest it to the Stellarium people to get a GPS plug-in.

It should be simple enough. Most GPS provide a serial output that's easy to decode. Any one of these would do for lat/lon and time, but $GPGGA provides height and $GPRMC the date:

$GPRMC,hhmmss.sss,A,lat,[NS],lon,[EW],0.00,,ddmmyy,,,A*6C
$GPGGA,hhmmss.sss,lat,[NS],lon,[EW],1,06,1.3,hhh.h,M,22.2,M,,0000*49
$GPGLL,lat,[NS],lon,[EW],hhmmss.sss,A,A*49

lat/lon in dmm.mmmm, height (hhh.h) in metres, and date/time in UTC.