How to display the sky above an earth location plus... ?

[sigismond]

Hello to all,

I am a newbie to Celestia 1.5.0 which I am discovering mostly with very impressive downloaded scripts. Being quite experienced with Redshift I have here some difficulties in achieving simple results.
Most nagging how to display the sky above a given location on earth and
know the declination/right ascensions of the line of view ?
After a goto command to a selected a location on earth you are in fact looking above and towards this earth location location and I haven't found any straightforward way to turn round precisely.
Is it possible to display the ecliptic only?
If several planets can be seen on a same screen can you indepently modify their apparent sizes ?

Thanks

Sigismond

[LordFerret]

I can't answer all your questions, but as far as looking behind you...

First is a keyboard command (after you've used that goto command), the asterisk "*" key.

Second is the cel script command "lookback {}".

Hope this helps a little.