New Feature Manual star tracker

[jarlrmai]

This might already be possible, but if I have a video where I know three lights that are always in frame are say Regulus, Jupiter and Mars can I just tell Sitrec these lights are those objects and have it point and set FOV accordingly when the star tracker fails because there are not enough other stars visible for it to work

Like it knows they are lights and puts a ring around them I just want to be able to tell it what they are

 

[Mick West]

Do you have such a video I can use for testing?

 

[jarlrmai]

Do you have such a video I can use for testing?

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...13_110754_e75d91aeb8878185cbf8fb84430abea2.js

 

[Mick West]

Fixed!

Version 2.196.0 (2026-11-13)

New Features

• Name the Star Tracker circles yourself (Video → Star Tracker; right-click a green circle): for a clip with too few stars for Identify Stars (catalog), choose a planet or a bright star in Name, or type a star name or a number such as HIP 49669 in Other name. Set the date, the time and the camera position of the sitch first. When three circles that are on have names, Sitrec fits the camera direction and field of view to them, and with Sync Camera to Star Field on it points the camera to match. Your names show in yellow, and the Status line shows the fit error and tells you when a name may be wrong. Ctrl-click (Cmd-click on a Mac) adds a circle on a point that has none. The right-click menu also has Leave out of identification (or Use in identification), and Delete Point for a circle that you added. If fewer than three named circles stay on, Sitrec removes the fit and puts the camera heading and field of view back on their earlier sources.
• Bright Triples (Video → Star Tracker → Identify Bright Triples): names a few bright points from the triangles that they make, for a clip that shows only planets and the brightest stars. It uses the planets (not the Moon) and the stars brighter than Bright Triples: magnitude limit (3.0 at the start) on the date of the In frame. It uses the whole sky, or only the sky above the horizon when you turn on Bright Triples: above horizon only (both in Star Tracker Tweaks). The names then fit the camera as names that you give do, and the Status line also shows how many other triangles fit and the next-best answer. When Identify Stars (catalog) fails, it tries Bright Triples by itself, unless a circle has a name that you gave. It runs in the background, with a progress window and Abort, and Undo puts back the names that it replaced.
• Stabilize on Stars (Video → Star Tracker): this new checkbox moves and rotates each frame so that the stars stay where they are on the In frame. It uses the result of Find Candidate Stars, so the stars do not need names, and the circles and names move with the picture. It replaces the other stabilizations. A new analysis, Clear, and turning VFR Fix on or off turn it off. It is not saved with the sitch.

The new "Bright Triples" method makes it irrelevant for this particular sitch, as it finds the location using this new method now