Help with Stellarium settings

[MarvinZ]

Hope someone can help and guide me with this. I am new to astronomy and am thinking of getting a telescope I would like to use Stellarium to get some idea of what I may see (first question is this a good plan?).

I am thinking that the Celestron Nexstar 130SLE could be a good choice, I am mainly interested in DSO observing. My main question is does anyone know what settings I need to put into Stellarium Ocular adding to simulate the above telescope with the suplied 20mm and 10mm eyepieces.

Thanks Peter

[jambouk]

Enter to info of the proposed scope and eye piece(s) into this website:

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

And then select some of the messier objects.

Above the image will be some data, one will be field of view (fov); note the numbers, say 1.5 degrees by 1.5 degrees. Then boot stellarium and use the zoom function to adjust the fov to 1.5 degrees to get a look at a wider range of subjects.

James

[MarvinZ]

Thanks James I think thats exactly what I was looking for.

[Steve Ward]

Try here ... http://www.astronomyshed.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=9172

[almcl]

Sorry to be a bit late, only just seen this.  Within the plug-ins in Stellarium is a one called oculars.  Launch it (I think it comes installed as standard) and select configure.  This allows you to set up eyepieces and telescopes and can be set to give a 'through-the-eyepiece' view.  I find it particularly useful for planning star hops, it accurately depicts what's seen in the finder scope, even putting a circular mask on the screen.