Stellarium 9.1 Help

[flearosie]

I've just downloaded the 9.1 version of Stellarium as recommended in another thread. Is there anyone or anywhere I can obtain a 'how to use menu' apart from the 'Help' window which comes with the program? I have used all the bottom icons etc showing the different settings etc but would like to actually see or know what this program is capable of doing etc. Thanks people:help:

[dannat]

You can download the userguide, about 1.5mb - google stellarium userguide gives more info

[rider]

two suggestions...

Dont forget to download the extra star sets and nebulas from the Wiki link.

And if you add the following lines to your config.ini file, you will get circles representing the field of your eyepiece/telescope. (you move these to a selected object by holding the ctrl and pressing the number representing the telescope) This feature alows you to see the scale you can expect from your scope when you look at that object.

[telescopes]
1 = NonexistingTelescopeDummy:params
1_ocular_0 = 0.22
1_ocular_1 = 0.48
1_ocular_2 = 1.12
2 = NonexistingTelescopeDummy:params
2_ocular_0 = 0.2
2_ocular_1 = 0.54
2_ocular_2 = 1.2

The "= 0.22" is the FOV of your lens /telescope combination.
If you need help in calculating this, there are several scope sites which have formulas for calculating this. I think televue might be one.

for more on this, see the wiki forum.

regards Rider

[koputai]

Rider,
There was a typo there, should be another colon thus

1 = NonexistingTelescope:Dummy:params
.................................^ here

You also need to go to the [astro] section and change 'flag_telescope = false' to 'flag_telescope = true' otherwise the change has no effect.

I actually use it a little bit differently, so I can use ctrl-1 for the finder view, ctrl-2 for the widefield eyepiece FOV, and ctrl-3 for the tighter eyepiece FOV, like this:

[astro]
flag_telescopes = true
flag_telescope_name = true

[telescopes]
1 = Finder:Dummy:params
1_ocular_0 = 5.0
2 = Pan35:Dummy:params
2_ocular_0 = 1.48
3 = Nag13:Dummy:params
3_ocular_0 = 0.67

Unfortunately, you can't toggle them on/off, and also the names are placed on top of each other.

Cheers,
Jason.

[rider]

thanks for the qualification, the typo happened when I tried to edit out the emoticon icon which I notice has appeared in your post too.

I turn off the names in the config file so they dont overwrite.

flag_telescopes = true
flag_telescope_name = false

regards Rider

[koputai]

Ah yes, I didn't realise that when I posted! Will try to turn that off.

*** Nope, don't seem to be able to turn smilies off, kinda silly..... ***

Cheers,
Jason.

[Galactic G]

That's a great tip Jason. :thumbsup: I'm opening my config.ini file and cutting and pasting that one!

[koputai]

Thanks.
The [astro] entries are just changes to the existing lines, so don't just paste these ones in.
As Rider says, if you don't want the labels there writing over the top of each other, leave the flag_telescope_name = false

The [telescopes] bit you can just paste in at the bottom of config.ini
You will want to change the numbers to suit your eyepieces as well.

Cheers,
Jason.