Help with stellarium?

[leo82]

Hi all,

i always seem to get confused with how the stars look through a telescope compared to naked eye, being upside down and back to front  etc (reflector).

If I put my telescope details into stellarium will the layout in stellarium be the same as through my eyepiece?

 

many thanks.

[MarsG76]

Good question.. I was wondering the same thing, more so about how to flip the view in a simulated eyepiece/camera FOV in Starry Night Pro 6, Cartes Du Ciel and WinStars2. 

 

[cloudsweeper]

With my 'scopes I use CTRL ^ H to make the display the same as what I see in the eyepiece.  (Lateral inversion.)

With a reflector, you should use CTRL ^ V to do the same thing - it rotates the view by 180deg.

Doug.

[red dwalf]

you can rotate the view when you use the field of view, but that was putting in camera chip size and so on, should be able to do something similar in ocular view

 

[Dave In Vermont]

This should be covered in the User Guide. If not - send a note to Alexander Wolf here (PM). He's one of the developers, as well as a member here. Here's a User Guide:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.16.0-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.16.0-1.pdf/download

Enjoy,

Dave

[MattJenko]

Refractor/cassegrain telescopes will generate an image that is upside down when used without a diagonal. When a diagonal is used the image will be the right way up, but backwards from left to right, so not rotated, more like a mirrored image. A newtonian will show things upside down, something which caused endless amusement out camping when looking at a field of cows on the opposite side of a valley once.

This information can be plugged into Stellarium when you enter in the details of the telescope for the Occular plugin.