Celestial Vision Navigation, or: How I Found Where an Elite Dangerous Screenshot from 2015 Was Taken, Using Computer Vision
From 2015 to 2019 the Elite Dangerous: Horizons main menu showed an unlit wheel-shaped station that players tied to the Dark Wheel legend. I used frame stacking, plate solving and a Perspective-n-Point search against the Hipparcos star catalogue to find where its starfield was rendered.
October 20, 2026
