12-02-2021, 03:34 PM
That's exactly what this is used for, a real-time representation of the sky relative to your current surroundings along with time and date. You might have a planetarium app for your phone such as sky safari or in this case Stellarium.
Without installing you can check it out here https://stellarium-web.org/ to see how it's actually being used.
The quality of my landscape image doesn't really matter. All I need to know is when will my target for the night clear the trees or any other obstructions. I might shoot 5 minute pics for 6 hours and this lets me see about where the telescope is going to start and finish with that particular target.
Without installing you can check it out here https://stellarium-web.org/ to see how it's actually being used.
The quality of my landscape image doesn't really matter. All I need to know is when will my target for the night clear the trees or any other obstructions. I might shoot 5 minute pics for 6 hours and this lets me see about where the telescope is going to start and finish with that particular target.