
I won’t explain this stuff, due to its wider availability on the web.
Now you can transfer your real view into this program and enjoy the stargazing simulation. Today I would like to discuss the custom horizon option available.Ĭustomizing the landscape in Stellarium can be a really fascinating exercise, especially when you are doing it for your own landscape, which has been known by yourself for a very long time. The current version of this program at the moment, when this article is producing is 0.19.1. One of the most popular software, which is both easy to use and contains most of the relevant stuff for night observers is Stellarium. No source code.If you like watching the night sky, you must have been using at least one of the stargazing (night sky) apps or software. Registered version includes extra types of projection. The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:
The user guide, section 5.7: Customising Landscapes. Landscape Rotation - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north. NASA Images are released into the public domain Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to theĬonfiguration dialog. Varyies depending on your operating system. Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium dataĭirectory, or the /landscapes directory. Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file: This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars. Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium The readme.txt file should look something like this: Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March.ġ815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.pngĢ11 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.iniġ096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)Ĭentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany. User contributed landscapes (by continent) Europe
1 User contributed landscapes (by continent).