Stellarium

Star Counts within FOV?

Asked by Jon Seamans

Over the years Stellarium has evolved to be a great academic tool as well as a great observational one. As an astrometry geek, I've had an ongoing interest in star-count data within various FoVs and limiting magnitudes. I finally decided to ask this question:

Within Stellarium, is there a way (scripting?) to access star-count data within the displayed field of view and a user-settable magnitude limit?

It seems it should be straight forward to do - everything is "there". I just can't see a way to do this within Stellarium. Using other programs, I've created an involved manual method using Stellarium screenshots. I believe I get pretty good counts to 10's of thousands of stars but there must be a better way :)

Thank you.

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Best Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#1

No simple way for count of stars within FOV. You can set specific FOV and limit for magnitude for stars, and you can get visual magnitude for selected objects within scripts. I guess it can be implemented as additional function for scripting engine - you need fill the feature request (through bug report) with description of wanted features and use cases for it.

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Jon Seamans (silvy5) said : 		#2

Thanks Alexander Wolf, that solved my question.