Novice needs help

[DrOsborn]

Hello All.
I am new to Celestia and I need help on how to turn it into a planetarium. What I want to do is position myself on the Earth surface (or a few miles above it) and look North (or any direction) and see what would be in the sky.
The position I want is Fort Wayne Indiana (US) Longitude minus 80 Latitude 40. I can go to this position and then look back using * but that just gives me a streight up view. How can I look due East at a 45 degree inclination? Can anyone give me instructions on how to choose a direction and inclination of the view?
Thanks for any help, DrOsborn

[Adelvunegv_waya]

Actually there are a lot of planatarium software available, much of it freeware, such as starcalc. all very good and all very informative.

as far as using celestia as a planetarium, i wouldnt begin to tell you how.

the most intersesting part of this software, IMO is the fact you can model so much of the stuff in our own back yard.

[selden]

0) Select the body from which to observe
1) use the GoTo menu to specify the Longitude and Latitude
2) type a y =Sync Orbit
3) type a Ctrl-G =GotoSurface under Windows
or
3) Ctrl-S =GotoSurface under Linux
4) type a Ctrl-F =change Arrow keys to AltAzimuth mode

Unfortunately, there is not (yet) an alt-az coordinate system display, but typing a ; will turn on the equatorial coordinate system display.

This has come up frequently enough recently that I probably should add it to the "preliminary user's FAQ"

[Guest]

Thanks Seldon, this gets me half way to what I want.
DrOsborn