#Stellarium custom landscape how to#
#Stellarium custom landscape install#
#Stellarium custom landscape free#

There’s also the problem with the plug-in buttons in the bottom bar – if all plug-ins are enabled, the buttons added to the toolbar make it too wide for the screen and the “exit” button is left outside. This will cause problems with the translations, as not all translated strings will fit the narrow width of the vertical menu. There are some remaining problems, though – the tabs had to be fixed size in order to be displayed properly. Now I have only to get hold of the maintainers of the unofficial N900 build and give them the patch… This is probably caused by the new OpenGL 1 text engine, but I’m going to report it when the developers mailing list starts showing greater signs of life. I also made a Simple landscape for Stellarium that has a semi-transparent ground for quick looks at when things are rising/setting. Note the buggy rendering of Venus’ label. Another solution that requires a bit more work is to modify the windows’ layout and make them wider than they they are high: One solution is to add scroll bars to the windows – this was used in the unofficial N900 port.

#Stellarium custom landscape how to#

One of the exceptions is the size of some of the windows – the “Sky and viewing options window” and the “Configuration window” are too “high” to fit in the screen size of 800 by 480 pixels used in both the N900 and the Pandora. Have you ever wondered how to customise Stellarium landscape to your locationCreating a custom landscape for use with Stellarium will change the way you pla. There has also been some interest in porting Stellarium for Pandora, an open-source hand-held gaming device, though it seems that the Qt/OpenGL combination causes problems at the moment.īoth Stellarium Mobile and Stellarium for iPhone use custom GUIs, but Stellarium’s default graphical user interface can be used on the small screens of mobile devices with almost no changes.

#Stellarium custom landscape free#

Please feel free to submit an image using the Submit page.To date, there are at least three ports of Stellarium for mobile devices – the (un-released) Stellarium Mobile port for Nokia N900, the third-party iPhone/iPad port, and another third party port for the N900.

#Stellarium custom landscape install#

To install the Dwingeloo landscape in your own Stellarium, download it, go to 'Sky and viewing options ', and under the tab 'Landscapes' choose 'Add/remove landscape'. Stellarium - Custom Landscape, Knowing where. from xxdxxxx Video Screenshot Preview Gallery. In the meantime, you can install this version 0.1 yourself. Stellarium - Custom Landscape, Knowing where your stars are. Unfortunately, the day I shot the photos it was a bit foggy and there were machines on the road I intend to make a better version some day. Incidentally, the screenshot also shows that the current favorite object of the telescope PSR B0329+54 is often right above the Astron building, highlighting the need for radio quiet at Astron. I more or less followed this guide for the conversion to a real Stellarium landscape. The many photos were then stitched together by the open source panorama tool Hugin. I took the photos from the top of the telescope, using it as a 130 tonne rotating tripod (this is why the telescope itself is absent from the picture). Unfortunately, none of the default landscapes look anything like the surroundings in Dwingeloo. CAMRAS uses it in the Dwingeloo telescope to show where the telescope is pointing. Stellarium is a great computer planetarium program, also for non-astromers.

A Dwingeloo background for Stellarium Submitter: