Smart Radio Telescope 1.1

Smart Radio Telescope controls a self-built Azimuth, Elevation, and polarization radio-telescope mount over local WiFi, allowing you to aim the dish and monitor its operation from an Android phone. It accepts horizontal Az/El coordinates or equatorial RA/Dec coordinates for precise pointing. Manual controls drive all three axes, run the homing routine, and display live position, movement, and status telemetry from the mount.

The built-in sky-view canvas shows stars and constellations, while radio-sky overlays include Haslam 408 MHz and HI4PI data. An object catalogue provides rise and set times, and raster scans produce a live heatmap that can be shared as an image. Version 1.1 also tracks eight bright radio sources, adds a virtual joystick, displays a live signal chart and Raspberry Pi health, uses the phone’s position to set the observing site, and brings landscape layouts with many fixes.

Designed as a school demonstrator for radio astronomy, the app suits classroom experiments, student projects, and hands-on observations with a home-built instrument. It requires the matching open-source telescope hardware and Raspberry Pi backend from the same project, with the Pi running its FastAPI service. Communication takes place with a device you operate on your own network; the app contacts no external servers and collects no data.

Smart Radio Telescope is open-source education software for Android 8.0 or newer, supporting arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64, and x86 devices. The application depends on that motorized telescope assembly and its Raspberry Pi controller rather than functioning independently.