Elite Observatory Core

Tool for reading/monitoring Elite Dangerous journals for interesting objects. Successor to the original Elite Observatory.

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IMPORTANT

Observatory Core is a perpetual work-in-progress. New features are being developed and even the current ones may experience a degree of flux.

Noteworthy planned functionality includes, but is not limited to:

• Integration with Frontier's Companion API
• Data submission to IGAU
• Data submission to EDDN
• And more...

How To Use

For detailed information about Elite Observatory and how to use it please see the official docs page here.

Prerequisites for use

Ideally just a copy of Elite Dangerous. The installer should grab necessary prerequisites for you, but if for some reason that fails you can manually install the .NET 8 Desktop runtime.

The portable build has no prerequisites due to bundling the .NET runtime along with the program, though this does make the exe commensurately larger.

Prerequisites for building

C# 9.0, .NET 8.0, and ObservatoryFramework.

Linux

1. Install the .NET 8.0 sdk: MS .NET Install scripts

2. Build the project using the Makefile (just run make)

3. Create a wineprefix (at least wine 10)

4. Run the winesetup (with WINEPREFIX env set): make winesetup

5. Finally, you can run the app: wine bin/ObservatoryCore.exe