METHOD FOR PRECISELY DETECTING STARS AND CENTROIDS

• Main Authors: RODRÍGUEZ HALCÓN, Manuel, QUERO REBOUL, José Manuel, MORENO CASTRO, Antonio Luis
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; Spanish
• Published: 05.10.2023
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING

Disclosed is a method for detecting stars in a photo from a star tracker and subsequently identifying the centroid thereof, these steps being necessary to determine precisely the attitude of a moving platform or satellite, without the need for storage in a memory device (3), and preventing the impac...