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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

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.

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"

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