Anyone know the website that....

[The_PSY3NTIST]

Does anyone know the website that lets you choose your scope then gives you a rough idea of what various object would look like through it? Cant find it for the life of me?

Thanks

[nephilim]

http://www.12dstring.me.uk/fov.htm

[Schorhr]

I don't know the english one, but

sternfreunde-muenster.de/orechner.php

Hope that helps

[The_PSY3NTIST]

Thats the one! Thank you

[The_PSY3NTIST]

Thats the one! Thank you

[John]

Don't get too disappointed if the views through your scope don't match those simulators. They are useful for working out how much sky a given scope / eyepiece combination will show but the actual views of a number of the objects, especially the deep sky objects, seem rather optimistic to me.

[Schorhr]

I agree with John, especially since all those sites (and the free Stellarium, too) show color objects that are still sharp in the smallest of telescopes ;-)

The site I posted does at least try to simulate the brightness when using too high or too low magnifications, but offers only a fragment of the objects (quick and easy to calculate a few eyepieces though).

[The_PSY3NTIST]

Thanks guys. I went through the minor disappointment in 2009 Was mainly looking for a rough FOV through my evostar on some DSO's. I'll check that link out that you posted Schorhr. I have only ever used the 12strings one.

Thanks

[Schorhr]

Also Stellarium is real nice as you can not only preview what you may see on the field, but also try star-hopping and finding stuff via telrad in real-time;

Plus you can not only enter your own telescope and eyepieces, but also eyepieces you may or may not want to buy :-)

Sorry if I bore you with that, you probably know Stellarium already; I just used it yesterday before heading out, it can hardly be mentioned too many times ;-)

[The_PSY3NTIST]

I have used stellarium in the past but did not know you could enter telescopes into it I've been out of astronomy for about a year so just trying to get back into it. Got myself a little shed at the new house that the gaffa says I can convert into a warm room ;p Time to blow the dust off the scopes

[Schorhr]

Heh, sounds familiar ;-) I just got back into it with the h130p so there's now no more excuse, grab&go...

Stellarium: ctrl+o, alt+o, have fun!

[The_PSY3NTIST]

you too, thanks for the heads up