Stellarium

[vince 66]

I've just down loaded stellarium as alot of people here seem to use it I was wondering do you have to put in youre own coridinates for your location if so how do you do it as the one I have is set in france or is that the way its supposed to be.

[atharh]

No you can choose your location.

There are a bunch of preset locations defined already. To Choose one:

1) Press F6

2) Next to magnifying glass enter your city it will then give you a set of matching locations.

3) Choose a location

4) Make sure the "Use as Default" checkbox is checked.

If your location is not in there then you'll unfortunately have to find out your co-ordinates (Google Maps?).

Athar

[vince 66]

Ok thanks for that I'll have a look now.

[vince 66]

Thats that sorted thanks

[Suffolkgazer]

No you can choose your location.

There are a bunch of preset locations defined already. To Choose one:

1) Press F6

2) Next to magnifying glass enter your city it will then give you a set of matching locations.

3) Choose a location

4) Make sure the "Use as Default" checkbox is checked.

If your location is not in there then you'll unfortunately have to find out your co-ordinates (Google Maps?).

Athar

Was about to ask the same question until I saw this thread and then this helpful reply . Just gotten mine sorted, was hoping to have Saturn within view before I hit the sack tonight but not to be for a fair few hours, and my Binos been buried by a ton of toys and clothes from my sons room.

Helpful program to help learn the night sky:iamwithstupid:

Jason.

[black5f]

If you want to be more accurate but dont have a GPS, Google earth? Zoom in on your house, gives lat, long and altitude at the bottom of screen. Mine is in reasonable agreement with the gps. Tom

[rll1288]

If you have a mobile phone with GPS ( I have an HTC Legend Android one) you can downlaod free apps that lets you use the in built GPS to get your co-ordinates. Great if you are out and about.

Roy