print a chart

[ken rigg]

Hi fellas, is it possible to print a chart off stellarium?

[Photosbykev]

use Configuration (F2) menu, go to Tools, next to Screenshots then set the Directory where you want the screenshot files to be saved. Then press Ctrl S to capture the screen to an image file, then print off the image file

[Odd Dob]

If you want printed charts you might find cartes du ciel/skychart gives better results. Positively user hostile compared to the ease of use of stellarium, but once it "clicks" it's a fantastic bit of software.

[Bizibilder]

Cartes du Ceil produces far better charts than Stellarium for printing on an ordinary home printer. You can also put your own finder or Telrad circles on the chart - a very useful feature.

As Odd Dob says stellarium for ease of use and pretty pictures on the screen but CduC far better fot the technical stuff!

[Astro Imp]

Hi Ken,

From Stellarium, hit print screen to put a copy on the clip board then paste the copy into your graphics program. Before printting you might want to invert the image to print black stars on white background - saves a lot of ink !

HTH

[Jack123456]

There is an option on stellarium (where you chose the directory to save the screenshots) to invert the colours, so you get black stars on a white background.