stellarium telescope control plugin download

STELLARIUM TELESCOPE CONTROL PLUGIN DOWNLOAD HOW TO

In the default menu, you can choose to configure the plugin, activate a CCD, or activate the Telrad finder. NOTE: the numbers after the menu items should be activations keys however, I have been unable to get thee to work. The up and down arrow keys move the selection up or down the menu, and the left and right arrow keys display or hide sub-menus. The menu is navigated by either the arrow keys on your keyboard, or by your mouse. The default popup looks like the following. What options are available on the popup menu depend on what you are currently doing. The menu will popup where your cursor is located. This can be changed in the configuration dialog. By default, the hot key to display the popup is Option-O (Alt-O for non-Mac users). The plugin is controlled through a popup menu (hot keys were disabled because of a lack of global ability to edit the keys used throughout the application). NOTE: this describes the 1.0 version of the plugin, which is distributed with the 0.11.0 release of Stellarium. None of these activities can take the plce of hands-on experience, but they are a good way to supplement your visual astronomy interests.

STELLARIUM TELESCOPE CONTROL PLUGIN DOWNLOAD HOW TO

This can be very useful if you have a non-GOTO telescope, and to get an idea of how to star-hop from a known location to an area of interest.

lastly, with the help of the Telrad sight, understand where object in the sky are in relation to each other.

Also to better plan what type of telescope (or camera lens) to pair with a particular camera to capture what you want.

to show what a particular camera would be able to photograph of the sky.

And with the support for binoculars, you now have the ability to understand just about any type of visual observing. This can also be very useful in deciding what telescope is best suited to a style of viewing.

I wanted to be able to get an idea of what I should see when looking through a physical telescope, and understand why one eyepiece may be better suited to a particular target. the primary use is to see what the sky looks like through a particular combination of eyepiece and telescope.

Stellarium telescope control plugin download