Ep 036 - Mapping your local horizon for Cartes du Ciel (or Stellarium)
Last night, I went to start imaging an object, and found that instead, I was imaging trees!
I couldn't quite work out when the object I was trying to image would come out from behind those trees, so I did some research and found that Cartes du Ciel (the planetarium software I primarily use) has the ability to map out your horizon. https://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/start
Using a Theodolite app, I was able to map the horizon, and create a virtual horizon so I could avoid this problem in future (or at least make it a bit easier to deal with).
This works in Stellarium (https://stellarium.org/) as well. If that's your software of choice, then watch the following • Displaying Your Local Horizon in Stellariu... by James Lamb which is a great tutorial.
The Theodolite app I used is linked here (for the Australian App store at least) https://apps.apple.com/au/app/theodol...
NOTE: I skipped this by accident in the video - you MUST start the first data point at 0. Just copy the first one you had and make it the same value.