2021-10-04, 05:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 2021-10-04, 05:04 PM by theskyhound.)
Hello,
The Eyepiece Viewer is not meant to be used with your finder, nor is it intended to be used for star hopping. It displays the eyepiece field of view only.
SkyTools has another, much better suited, chart for finding objects. It is a multiple-view chart that displays the sky as seen to the naked eye, finding device, and then the eyepiece. Magnitude limits and orientations are matched to what you will see. This allows for much quicker star hopping, because you no longer need to do the "hop."
When you create a telescope in SkyTools a special finder chart is created based on what you entered for that telescope. If you right-click on an object in the Nightly Planner you see a menu. Below "View Naked Eye" will be the currently selected telescope (at the top of the planner). Select this to open the finder chart customized for this telescope. You can open charts for other telescopes from the menu selection below that.
These custom finder charts can be printed and taken to the field, where you use them near the time indicated on the chart (automatically selected to be the optimum time to view the object). Or you can take a laptop/tablet into the field and use the charts on the screen at the telescope.
Suggested Help topics: (open the Help contents)
The SkyTools Observing System
Visual Observing with SkyTools --> Star Hopping with Printed Charts
The Tools --> Charts --> Visual Simulation Charts --> The Telescope Finder Chart
The Eyepiece Viewer is not meant to be used with your finder, nor is it intended to be used for star hopping. It displays the eyepiece field of view only.
SkyTools has another, much better suited, chart for finding objects. It is a multiple-view chart that displays the sky as seen to the naked eye, finding device, and then the eyepiece. Magnitude limits and orientations are matched to what you will see. This allows for much quicker star hopping, because you no longer need to do the "hop."
When you create a telescope in SkyTools a special finder chart is created based on what you entered for that telescope. If you right-click on an object in the Nightly Planner you see a menu. Below "View Naked Eye" will be the currently selected telescope (at the top of the planner). Select this to open the finder chart customized for this telescope. You can open charts for other telescopes from the menu selection below that.
These custom finder charts can be printed and taken to the field, where you use them near the time indicated on the chart (automatically selected to be the optimum time to view the object). Or you can take a laptop/tablet into the field and use the charts on the screen at the telescope.
Suggested Help topics: (open the Help contents)
The SkyTools Observing System
Visual Observing with SkyTools --> Star Hopping with Printed Charts
The Tools --> Charts --> Visual Simulation Charts --> The Telescope Finder Chart
Clear skies,
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound