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djiuser_T5Wegm3UGfEK Posted at 10-4 11:37
Hello, I would love to be able to have a sky-tracking mode on the DJI Osmo Mobile 5 in order to take beautiful sky photos. It isn't too hard to implement, either: - The phone's GPS location can easily be harnessed to know the user's latitude and longitude and thereby compute the proper inclination of the gimbal required to align with the ecliptic plane. - The phone's compass can be used to track the North and allow for full alignment. For refined alignment, a custom heading offset can easily be added by the user, akin to what the Night Sky app offers. - The three-axis gimbal already allows for smooth tracking of objects, so having it follow a elliptical path portion at a set speed (360/86,164 deg/s) is already possible (software-enabled). Long exposure isn't difficult to achieve, and BULB shooting would be ideal — perfect with a gimbal to stabilize the camera, too . So all the hardware is present and this would make for an amazing selling point too, appealing to photographers as well as videomakers. Since the OM5 has now been released and the new build of the Mimo app along with it has this request been built into the Mimo app? Did this request make it into the software roadmap? If so where is sky tracking in the pipeline? Just picked up my first gimbal (the OM5) and if it can do sky tracking it would be a GAME CHANGER for my astrophotography content creation. DJI, please make this happen!
I doubt the motors in these gimbals are fine enough to do celestial tracking. Typically, that requires very precisely geared motors in an alt-azimuth mount in order to cancel out earths rotation. |
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