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I was playing around with Stellarium and I noticed that my telescope is (in Occulars) menu is set up with BOTH horizontal and vertical flip. This does seem to be correct I think with the view matching what I see through the eyepiece.

But I thought that a Newtonian telescope only flipped the image vertically? So why do I have to have horizontal flip enabled too?

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Here is a short but effective write-up on this subject from telescopes.com

http://www.telescope...downarticle.cfm

Short but misleading. It says refractors used straight through gives upside down images. The upside down image it then gives as an example is inverted but isn't flipped left to right like it should be if the image was rotated 180 degrees.

This article, again using US licence plates as an example, has it right

http://www.telescope.com/Articles/Current-Articles/Telescopes/Image-Orientation/pc/9/c/192/sc/194/p/99816.uts

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