Comments on How to use Stellarium's Oculars plugin to match your optics
The Stellarium virtual planetarium is one of the most widely used open source specialized tools in the world. It features a captivating dome that counts over 600000 starts, hundreds of constellations and asterisms, planets with their moons and realistic sky effects like atmospheric scattering, shooting stars and supernovae simulation. It can serve as an educational tool, telescope guidance software, position calculator, or even as a rendered for fish-eye projection on domes.
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I just wish to say thank you for the above information... I am nowhere near even an amateur astronomer-- I just love matching up what I see in the sky with the Stellarium app-- but I am still familiarising myself with how to navigate around and understand all the terms -- such as you mentioned above ... "calculating sidereal times" -- at this point, I don't have a clue what that means. I took a pic of the moon last night with my mobile phone camera. Of course properties show date and time, which I entered on Stellarium-- but then I wanted the exact coordinates of the moon at that moment and although I searched for it on the top left, I did not know what to look for, the term under which I would find it... and then how to 'freeze' it-- so that I can locate the exact coordinates for the date and time I took the picture? Sorry, know this sounds pretty ignorant, but the only way I am going to learn is by asking until I get to understand it. Thanks again!
I have created a huge list of oculars to test out before I buy the real thing. I have a desktop installed version of Stellarium and a laptop version. I would like to copy the list from one to the other and was wondering if this is at all possible. I have the latest version installed in both, 0.19.3.
Thanks! Still, I was not able to set stellarium for eyepiece projection (Scope + eyepiece + lens + camera). Probably I can mimick this in the Lens tab (like if it were a Barlow), but I don't know the multiplier.
How to simulate iPhone 6s camera used in afocal mode with telescope? When I start to enter the sensor pixel numbers (750x1334), Stellarium crashes.
i love using the occular plugin, but it seems after an update, all the extra eyepieces and sensors are put in after I painstakingly edited the eyepieces and sensors. Is there a way to save off this data after its been set to a user's needs?