DobsonianDSC | Simple low cost circuit to connect

DobsonianDSC is a C++ library typically used in Internet of Things (IoT), Arduino applications. DobsonianDSC has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Amateur astronomers want to know where their telescope is pointing at. For this reason, many commercial telescopes come equipped with "push to" or "go to" features, often based on high precision optical rotary encoders attached to the telescope mount, and a hand control device with a database of coordinates of thousands of stars and other sky objects. There are also commercial Digital Setting Circles, which are kits sold for telescope owners to adapt to their existing telescope, in order to give it "push to" features, costing a few hundred dollars. This project is an open source implementation of Digital Setting Circles for dobsonian telescopes using inexpensive optical encoders and the ESP32 microcontroller, with the goal of enabling amateur astronomers to build their own DSC system. Particular emphasis has been placed on making sure anybody can build the circuit regardless of their experience (or lack thereof) with electronics or arduino, including a step-by-step guide for a very simple implementation that requires no soldering.