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    Stargazing Stars in sky given arbitrarily sized/oriented window

    Sorry for any confusion, let me try to clarify. Also, if this isn't the right forum for this, let me know. It starting to feel like it might actually be a graphics programming problem. Let's say I have a rectangular window sitting at 45 degrees elevation. The bottom and top "frames" of the...
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    Stargazing Stars in sky given arbitrarily sized/oriented window

    Hi davenn, Thanks for the response! And yep, Star Walk does this as well and was probably a seed of inspiration for the project, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to implement it myself. I think the problem is I don't even know what to google for or what branch of mathematics to start...
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    Stargazing Stars in sky given arbitrarily sized/oriented window

    Hi All, I've been taking a bit of a crash course in astronomy for a raspberry pi project I'm toying with. I basically want to create a window to the night sky without the actual window but a screen to replace it. Barring the practicality (psh, who needs that) of doing this, it's been a lot of...
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