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#Stellarium custom landscape full#
#Stellarium custom landscape software#

Try to keep the horizon in roughly the same place in each photo it probably helps with lining things up later to keep it in the middle of the shot. I started with north at one edge of the first photograph, because I know exactly which direction that is, but it's not a major problem wherever you start.

#Stellarium custom landscape full#

You need a full 360 degrees with plenty of overlap in each shot - a third is good. If the sky is the same colour as anything else in the image then things will get a bit more awkward later. Ideally choose a day on which the sky is a uniform colour because we'll want to get rid of it later. Please let me know if you have any corrections or suggestions.įirst take a sequence of shots with a camera from the viewpoint you'll be using to create a panorama. To get the view from your inputted settings, click on the white circle with the rectangle in it (Image Sensor Frame) in the same top right menu.Ok, here's my first cut of a set of instructions to create a Stellarium landscape using Linux. You can access these settings by clicking on the spanner icon in the top right of the screen. Put your camera details in the “Sensor” tab and Telescope/lens details in the “Telescope” tab. To make things even easier, input your telescope/camera specs into the Oculars Settings and you can see what image you will get with your camera/telescope combination. I had to fiddle with both hight (by adjusting the actual image) and rotational direction (by adjusting the “Angle_rotatez” field in the landscape.ini file) to get North in the right place) Oculars Settings If the image needs rotating to get North aligned, adjust the “Angle_rotatez” field in the landscape.ini file If the image of your new horizon is too high or low, you may need to go back and adjust the landscape’s vertical position in the PNG image –

Open up Stellarium and your new landscape should be accessible by pressing F4 (Sky and Viewing Options menu) > Landscape’.Using Notepad, open the landscape.ini file (and change the fields to match your location and new stitched image (shed1.png for example), coordinates and altitude.Make a copy of one of the landscape folders (including its contents) in Stellarium and rename it to reflect your new landscape I have 2, “Shed” and “Patio”.This will be the new ‘maptex’ file mentioned in the landscape.ini file. Save the image as a PNG file (mine is shed.png).Use the eraser tool to delete the area above the horizon (leaving in houses, trees etc.) this area will become transparent and show the stars and night sky.

#Stellarium custom landscape software#

Use Photoshop or another image editing software to create an image 2,044px by 1,276px with a transparent background – then paste your new stitched image onto it as a new layer.

Use an image mosaic software such as Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) to stitch the images together to create a flat panorama, and save it.

Make sure you have a good overlap – save them in a folder.

Using your phone or camera, take a set of overlapping images of your new landscape (back garden) from the position of your telescope.

Image editing software (I used Photoshop).

Mosaic-stitching software (I used Microsoft ICE).

To create a custom landscape you will need: It takes a bit of time to tweak and get right, possibly a few hours but well worth it! Customising the landscape in Stellariun for one showing my own back garden has been a real game changer it makes it so much easier to plan an imaging session.