Comet Neowise and Stellarium

[Anthonyexmouth]

Can anyone help me, having trouble finding and importing the details for C/2020 Neowise into Stellarium. When searching it doesn't find it in the catalogue

[happy-kat]

c/2020 f3

[Corncrake]

or even just  neo  in the search box and it should be at the top of the list.

which cat are you looking at ?

edit: here you go should be :-  MPC's list of observable comets

 

Edited July 10, 2020 by Corncrake

[Anthonyexmouth]

23 minutes ago, Corncrake said:

or even just  neo  in the search box and it should be at the top of the list.

which cat are you looking at ?

edit: here you go should be :-  MPC's list of observable comets

 

thanks, just copied and pasted the text file from the website into notepad and imported it. for some reason stellarium wasn't donwloading the catalogue

[goodricke1]

The great thing about this comet is you don't need Stellarium to find it! 😀

[JamesF]

8 minutes ago, goodricke1 said:

The great thing about this comet is you don't need Stellarium to find it! 😀

Indeed not.  It's a very easy star-hop from Capella.

James

[StuartJPP]

1 hour ago, Anthonyexmouth said:

Can anyone help me, having trouble finding and importing the details for C/2020 Neowise into Stellarium. When searching it doesn't find it in the catalogue

I had the same issue with Stellarium v0.15 but updated to the latest version v0.20 and it worked fine. I usually don't like updating applications on my astro laptop (if it ain't broke).

Managed to find it with the binoculars so happy about that.

[Anthonyexmouth]

10 hours ago, goodricke1 said:

The great thing about this comet is you don't need Stellarium to find it! 😀

I only wanted it in Stellarium for easier telescope control. Much easier to plate solve on Capella in APT and then use stellarium to GOTO the comet.