STELLARIUM LANDSCAPES HOW TO
STELLARIUM LANDSCAPES UPDATE
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STELLARIUM LANDSCAPES TRIAL

STELLARIUM LANDSCAPES TRIAL

So, I had to do a bit of trial and error for this until it was as close as I could make it. Then finally for this file the last part is use to line up your image with North. The altitude you can find from many sites on the internet, I just used. It will be more precise that you need so just ignore the remaining numbers. I did this by going to Google Maps and clicking on the map where I took the image, then at the bottom of google maps it shows you the longitude and latitude. Your location will likely be Earth and you'll need to find your latitude and longitude. From there you can change the name of the landscape, the author and the description. Change the file to a plain text file by clicking on the menu Format->Make Plain Text.Ĭopy the text above starting at into the new file.

STELLARIUM LANDSCAPES UPDATE

Copy your png that you created earlier and rename it to be landscape.png (or you can call it something different but you'll need to update the value after 'malted = ' above.Ĭreate a new text file in that folder, so one Windows you can right click and select New->Text File or on Mac you will need to open TextEdit then click New Document. What you need to do is create a folder on your machine, (it doesn't matter where). name = Home Landscape author = Marc Thomas description = Back of the back garden type = spherical maptex = landscape.png planet = Earth latitude = +52d34'07' longitude = +1d49'25' altitude = 126 angle_rotatez = 70

Some people for example, don't import an image they just superimpose lines onto the sky so they can see what is coming up, which is helpful too.įor this example we are using spherical. So, depending on your input image you will need a different shape. Basically, there are many different image types that you can import into Stellarium, from fish eye, spherical, polygonal to 'old_style'. This file is needed to instruct Stellarium on how it should process the image when importing it. The next step is to create a configuration file for your landscape. Creating the necessary files to import into Stellarium To do this click on the menu File->Export->Quick Export as PNG, select the location and then your file is saved and ready for the next step. All you need to do now is save the image as a transparent PNG. However, the photo that I used I just took the photo I used with one shot! Taking the panoramic photoīefore the days of panorama functionality in smart phones, you would need to create your own panoramic photograph of the landscape manually, and stitch it together using photoshop or some panoramic stitching tool.

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These instructions should work for other versions but things do change with the software over time and so might not work.

One fantastic feature of Stellarium is to be able to customise the landscape used in the foreground which is really helpful if planning a shoot at home and you have lots of trees in the garden like I do.īefore I get started, it's worth letting you know that these instructions work for version 0.20.3 of Stellarium. You can use this to just look at what is in the night sky, plan your viewing evenings ahead of time and also control your telescope to find targets in the night sky. Stellarium is a fantastic, free, application which works on many platforms, from Windows, to Linux and Mac.

STELLARIUM LANDSCAPES HOW TO

Most tutorials talk about how to do things on Windows and but there is very little out there for OS X. My particular favourite for iOS is Sky Guide, however, this article will be talking about Stellarium on OS X and Windows. There are many star gazing apps out there for both desktop machines and mobile devices.

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