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Re: Stellarium Apparent RA & Dec
From: Peter Blaskett
Date: 2023 Nov 5, 18:03 -0800

Frank, thanks for your quick response. I am aware of those setting options. I will elaborate a bit.

What I can get from Cartes du Ciel is J2000 RA & DEC; RA & DEC of date ( proper motion is applied );

and Apparent RA & DEC of date ( abberation, nutation, precession, and parallax are applied ).

Apparent RA & DEC are what is needed for navigating or surveying, and the Nautical Almanac and ICE and MICA

and the USNO website ( and your Clone of that ), and the Star Almanac for Land Surveyors all give Apparent positions.

Seemingly, Stellarium does not give this, but in reality I think it should do. I have not found out how.

Screenshots are attached.

Thanks for any/all sugestions

Peter

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