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A Big Year for Dwarf Planets

Liz: For us, one of the most powerful features of the Wolfram Language is the way it understands real-world (or, in this case, real-solar-system) objects, making it easy to incorporate data on all kinds of things into your projects. In this rather lovely instance from the good people at Wolfram, you can calculate and visualise the relative size of a number of those things on your Raspberry Pi, including the state of Texas, the dwarf planet Ceres, the former dwarf planet Pluto, and the Moon.

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A Big Year for Dwarf Planets

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Controlling Telescopes with Raspberry Pi and Mathematica

Eben: Here’s a guest post from Tom Sherlock, describing how he’s been able to control a telescope using a Raspberry Pi, Mathematica and the Wolfram Language. As an amateur astronomer, I’m always interested in ways to use Mathematica in my hobby. In earlier blog posts, I’ve written about how Mathematica can be used to process and improve images taken of planets and nebulae

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Controlling Telescopes with Raspberry Pi and Mathematica

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Astrophotography with the camera board

Cristos Vasilas from from Dash One , a lover of astronomy and electronics, has been trying out the Raspberry Pi camera board as an astrophotography tool. He’s captured some amazingly sharp, short video of the moon, and of Saturn, rings clearly visible, swinging across the sky

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Astrophotography with the camera board

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