Electronic maps down to 15th magnitude?

[jambouk]

Stellarium seems to show some 11th magnitude stars, but is there a plug-in to get to list even fainter ones down to say the 15th magnitude?

Or if not, is there any other software (free or cheap ideally), which does?

Thanks.

James

[Psychobilly]

You will probably find that it's the star catalogs the program is using that will "limit" the magnitude......

I remember spending a whole Christmas once downloading one of the larger USNO It took ages due to the single file  per "IP address" and bandwidth limits imposed on anonymous FTP users.. I used to pop into the office once a day to select another file  while also downloading at home...

I have used the catalog with The Sky6 and CDC.. you just want to make sure that you  set it up so the magnitude limits scales with zoom level...

Peter...

[daz]

See the Stellarium Wiki - http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Stars

[jambouk]

daz, that looks really helpful, thank you, i will try this later when i get home.

Jd

[jambouk]

Yup, that has solved the issue nicely. Thank you so much.

James

[Martin Meredith]

If you're still on the lookout, SkySafari Pro is relatively cheap and appears to show stars and DSOs down to mag 18 and lower. I used to use Stellarium a lot but having used SkySafari I just can't get on with it.

With a web connection the Aladin server is also excellent, deep and free. http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr

Martin

[daz]

Glad it helped

Another free one is C2A - it's a bit like CdC, once you get used to the interface, it's pretty powerful

[jambouk]

Daz, can that plate solve too?