Stellarium Horizontal/Vertical Flip - query

[Gasconman]

Bonjour a tous,
OK, total newbie here, taking a cautious, but exciting, first step into astronomy, I have just received a Sky-Watcher Explorer 130M together with some BST Star Guider eyepieces and I have it set up and ready to use for tomorrow night which  is forecast for clear skies here.  In the meantime I'm trying to get my head around a few issues. If I want to match the view of the sky in Stellarium to the view in my scope's eyepiece, should I select both Horizontal flip and Vertical flip in the Telescope section of Stellarium's Ocular settings?

Edited August 31, 2020 by Gasconman
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[lenscap]

2 hours ago, Gasconman said:

If I want to match the view of the sky in Stellarium to the view in my scope's eyepiece, should I select both Horizontal flip and Vertical flip in the Telescope section of Stellarium's Ocular settings?

Yes.   A Newtonian scope flips the view horizontally & vertically.

By the way, this double flip is exactly the same as a 180 degree rotation, so when using a planetarium app on a phone I  just rotate the phone in my hand (with the display orientation set to "fixed") to match either eyepiece or naked-eye  view. This saves a lot of "flipping" & "unflipping".

Hope your skies are clear as expected.

[Gasconman]

Thank you! Yes, clear skies still forecast. Really looking forward to my first time out observing. I'm fortunate to live in rural south-west France, with an unobstructed 360° view of the sky.

Edited September 1, 2020 by Gasconman