Stellarium

request for search for objects by altitude/azimuth

Asked by fulano

Hi,

I am a photographer and use Stellarium to find when I will be able to photograph which celestial object when and where. It would be very nice to have a feature to search for the time and date that an object will be in a given position.

For the sun and the moon there is a simple calculator for this here:
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/sunmooncalc/

This is not only limited to the sun and the moon, but is generally only concerned with their rise and setting.

I envision a window with parameters for altitude and azimuth within a variable range, perhaps also with a relation to the sun/moon rise/set times, additionally a moon phase parameter. This would bring up a (hopefully printable) list which would allow jumping to set the displayed time to the search result.

Is a feature such as this possible in Stellarium?

Thanks.

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treaves (treaves) said : 		#1

Yes, it's possible, just unlikely.

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Best Khalid AlAjaji (kajaji) said : 		#2

I believe you can use the new Observability plugin in Stellarium 0.11.4.

For any object it will give the following info:

-Rise, set and culmination time for today (or the day of simulation)

-Largest sun separation date
-The range of nights when the object can be seen.

-The date when the object will rise at the same time as the sun
-The date when the object will set at the same time as the sun

-The date when the object will rise at the same time when the sun sets
-The date when the object will set at the same time when the sun rise

This will greatly narrow your search for the suitable days when the object can be photographed.

You can also use the ocular plugin to see what your camera frame can capture with a particular lens

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fulano (78luphr0rnk2nuqimstywepozxn9kl19tqh0tx66b5dki1xxsh5mkz9gl21a5rlwfnr8jn6ln0m3jxne2k9x1ohg85w3jabxlrqbgszpjpwcmvkbcvq9spp6z3w5j1m33k06tl-c94cs2xk0-a811i2i3ytqlsztthjth0svbccw8inm65tmkqp9sarr553jq53in4xm1m8wn3o4rlwaer06ogwvqwv9mrqoku2x334n7di44o65qze67n1wneepmidnuwnde1rqcbpgdf70gtq) said : 		#3

Thanks Khalid AlAjaji, that solved my question.

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fulano (78luphr0rnk2nuqimstywepozxn9kl19tqh0tx66b5dki1xxsh5mkz9gl21a5rlwfnr8jn6ln0m3jxne2k9x1ohg85w3jabxlrqbgszpjpwcmvkbcvq9spp6z3w5j1m33k06tl-c94cs2xk0-a811i2i3ytqlsztthjth0svbccw8inm65tmkqp9sarr553jq53in4xm1m8wn3o4rlwaer06ogwvqwv9mrqoku2x334n7di44o65qze67n1wneepmidnuwnde1rqcbpgdf70gtq) said : 		#4

Thank you very much! The observability plugin helps a great deal! And yes the ocular plugin is very useful indeed.