Stellarium plugins

It's been a devil of a time finding the compiled plugins for the latest version of Stellarium. It was ultimately via Matthew Gates's blog that I found a link to the plugin download page back at Stellarium's wiki.

I downloaded the bundle with the Compass Marks, Ocular, and Angle Measure. Nice!

I tested the Angle Measure on Mercury and the Pleiades as we had seen them last weekend. It works good.

I had heard of the Compass Marks but I didn't know what it did. Now it's clear that it is something of a compass rose. It shows an azimuth scale in degrees along the horizon.

The Ocular is intriguing. Sounds like you can program you eyepieces... I'll have to test it...