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Yes, starcams are standard equipment on satellites including Cubesats because they provide more precise attitude information than any other available sensor. There are numerous free-software packages for star tracking; a quick search finds https://github.com/spel-uchile/Star_Tracker. I don't know if there's, like, an Android app that will do the required sensor fusion to tell you where on Earth you are.


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