Using Stellarium to prepare a visual observing session
Hi,
Before a visual observing session I'd like to answer the following questions:
1. Which Deep-sky Objects of magnitude <10 will be at least 15° above the horizon at midnight?
2. Which strongly colored stars magnitude <10 will be at least 15° above the horizon at midnight?
3. Which double stars magnitude <10 will be at least 15° above the horizon at midnight?
I cannot find a way to answer these questions using Stellarium.
1. Turning the DSOs on, setting time to midnight and carefully choosing the zoom level, I can get a set of DSOs. But:
a. I need to click every one of them to record their name and position.
b. I have to scan the sky, because on the needed zoom level only a part of sky is visible.
2. No way to filter stars by color.
3. No way to filter stars by being double/
I would appreciate, if you could share your tips for preparing for an observing session.
- Are there plugins that fit my use case?
- Are there UI features that I miss?
If I get no responses, will file feature requests.
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