It is well known that star sensor is an accurate attitude sensor in various real applications, which however has not been fully used to observe stars and the moon simultaneously. This paper investigates how the moon and stars can be observed by the star sensor, and how to process the images taken under different light conditions to extract information to determine attitude and location of the observer. Experiments are conducted to show that the star sensor can be efficiently applied as an integrated celestial sensor, providing economical, reliable and autonomous benefits to the missions conducted on the earth, in the air, on other planets and so on.


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    Title :

    Simultaneous extraction of the moon and stars at night


    Contributors:
    Huajun Du (author) / Huosheng Hu (author) / Yunfeng Ai (author)


    Publication date :

    2016-08-01


    Size :

    475678 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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