How to create custom Stellarium landscapes
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2021
- UPDATE: The Streetview app no longer is available. Please let me know if you know of an easy and free 360 panorama app (both iOS and Android).
Have you ever wanted to plan a session using Stellarium, but upon trying to catch your picked target discovered that it hid behind a house, or that single tree in your garden? Then this is the UA-cam video that will help you solve this issue.
I'll explain how you can create your own custom background of your observation location. See an accurately simulated view of the nights sky in Stellarium. See when your favorite objects show themselves best and when they decide to hide behind obstacles on your horizon.
What I skipped explaining in the video is how to get the landscape.ini file. What I did was copy one from the existing landscapes. There are very complex ones and simple ones, so choose wisely ;-)
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Unfortunately it is no longer possible to install the Streetview app. I will have to look for an alternative and remake this video with the new tool. Suggestions are welcome.
Another satisfied customer here. I followed your tutorial to add my landscape to Stellarium and it has improved my image capturing tenfold. Knowing exactly when a DSO will clear a tree or when a galaxy will set behind my home has made all the difference. No more waking up to 100 x 120s subs of the neighbor's chimney and/or trees, only perfectly unobstructed galaxies and nebulae as they float through our always moonless and always cloud free skies.
Thank you Martin!
- Lewis
What a delightful comment. Thanks!
Now I KNOW you are a liar, you said moonless and cloud free skies...LIES haha.,
Sorry. Moonless cloudless skies are only a perk for the highest tier in my nonexistent Patreon campaign 😇
Excellent Video Martin! Thank you for sharing with me!
hey Martin! Nice to have found your corner of the internet! Thanks for putting together the educational videos, it has helped me.
You’re welcome!
Great video, thanks. I love your unique sense of humour. Ed from Canada
Thanks for watching and thanks for your compliment. People say you could become narcissistic posting videos of yourself on UA-cam. We do not agree. :-P
That's brilliant Martin! This is something that I'll certainly be doing later in the season :) thank you for taking the time to make this 👍
I think it was in one of your videos that I heard mention of a chimney or a rooftop getting in the way. It was one of the small nudges that I needed to get this video out 😊
@@KopLamp That's great to hear! - it'll definitely help me narrow down target selections when I'm going after targets I've never done before :)
Very good tutorial . Just made a custom landscape now using your video. Must make it easier to do your setup with two of you :)
Thanks. Yeah two of me can be a bit awkward... that is why in later videos I started to wear a lab coat and impersonate Dylan O'Donnell ;)
Great information again! It is too sunny today, but it should get a tad bit better this evening. I really liked you cameo on your computer, novel way to move things along!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Martin! Thank you for posting this. Your tip to use Google Street View was brilliant- taking a panorama of my backyard was simple and produced a great image. Also, your Photoshop technique for removing the sky was something I'd never seen before. I was able to quickly edit my image and it looks great in Stellarium. I'm very happy to have found your corner of the internet!
Thanks for this feedback!
@@KopLamp Sadly the app is being discontinued around the end of this month (March)
@@PeterMaddison2483 Really?... Then I'll need to revisit this video soon and find me some new easy way of getting a 360 panorama. Thanks for the heads-up
Very happy to see this video! Great information. Would be great for an Updated Tutorial though... The latest Adobe Photoshop CC provides an awesome and Much Quicker / Easier way to delete the sky now! I've used it often to delete and or replace many skies. Your video is very helpful to show people how to create a 360° photo and also where to put the finished file in the Stellarium program. Many thanks for your info! 👍
Awesome editing skills 😁
Haha... it was quite easy actually. I use Shotcut for my video editing.
I really need to do this soon. Just found your channel and subscribed.
It is very convenient indeed. There are also apps that give augmented views of the stars. But I like the Stellarium way 😇
Thanks for an great tutorial. Love your style. I Just created my own custom landscape within about 1hour.
I learned some helpful information from watching your tutorial & also from the other Martin on Martin’s Astrophotography, where I found your original comment.
In case of help, just find yourself a Martin 😜
Very good I might try this one day👍🙏Thanks
Thanks. There are also tutorials available on the Stellarium website.
Ok, that was a great method to remove the sky, I like it!
Subscribed, creative video !
Awesome, thank you!
That was helpful. You are funny. Thanks.
Thanks. We try our best :P
Great tutorial and I love your conversations with your shadow copy friend 😂👍
Now regarding the tutorial it would be helpful to explain the rotationz value. I guess this refers to what angle (in degree) the _center_ of your panoramic image is pointing to?
Thanks.
You are correct. I briefly touch upon it in the video in which I state that it it the amount of degrees on the compass that your image deviates from reality.
Great video. I have just found your channel from a comment on another channel. Iv been wanting to do this on Stellarium for a while. Didn't know you can do the image on street view so think ill try it out.
Thanks! Let me know if my explanation lacks at some parts. We can have a conversation here in that case, so it might help out others as well.
@@KopLamp I'm on doing it now to be honest following along. Its going ok so far will let you know.
Iv had to keep going back to see where you clicked in Photoshop but other than that its good. I do like your random humour by the way! Iv got as far as the Program files. ............Just wondering how do you create the Landscape.ini file?
I saw that caveat myself too. What I did was just copy one from another landscape. Make sure it is a very simple one (there are landscapes with simulated lights and other stuff, which you don’t need at first)
@@KopLamp Aaah. I was thinking along those lines but wasn't sure.
Really helpful, I tried this before but didn't manage to get it to work, I'll try again with your street view suggestion. Thanks Martin
Don’t hesitate to ask if things don’t work out as described in the video. Especially the editing of the .ini file can be somewhat finicky depending on the orientation of the street view panorama.
@@KopLamp I think that's where I got stuck, I had trouble aligning the image with the correct compass positions. I'll try again and ask if I get stuck! Thanks so much
I don't have Photoshop, I use GIMP and I would use fuzzy select to select the sky. BTW, you've got some great comical editing skills.
[EDITED] As I said Blender, which was wrong, it should have been GIMP
Thanks!
@@KopLamp Another tip would be to take a picture of the sky in summer when there's no cloud and the sun is behind an object or in winter when the sky is completley overcast in one colour.
That is good advice indeed. I make a point in the video of taking the panorama on an overcast day.
I’ll have to redo the video as it seems the 360 streetview app is (going) extinct.
@@KopLamp I don't know why 'they' have to get rid of stuff. Microsoft ICE for example. Luckily I managed to locate a copy. I can't see Google improving on the 360 app so why get rid of it, if it's because not many people are using it, make more noise about it...
A tip for anyone with a google pixel phone. There is a 360 mode in the regular camera app called "photo sphere"! It works the same as the street view one, but it is built into the phone.
Sounds like a great advice. Thanks for this addition!
Hello, Martin.
I hope you keep making videos in English.
Greetings Esben from Denmark
I will. Although an occasional Dutch video will be possible too. I will try to caption them.
So clever… Even if your 2nd avatar seems a bit less skilled than the main one…
Yeah, he just doesn’t listen… did you watch the video where he impersonated Dylan O’Donnell? 😇
@@KopLamp Just right now. The resemblance with the original one is amazingly striking…
Great help! I am a Photoshop newbie, so what are the Photoshop settings you are using?
What do you mean with Photoshop settings? I think I show all the steps I take without making use of shortcuts. What part is causing you trouble?
Thanks for your reply…I was having trouble using photoshop, but I was using a very different version, some of the options you were able to use were not available to me in photoshop premier elements…my problem, not yours. Finally figured it out, and your help was very much appreciated. Thank you.
Enjoy your custom Stellarium landscape. It makes planning ahead so much easier!
Hello mike, is their any chance to read AZ ALT value form stellarim to any basic controllers .
There are ways to setup Stellarium to control a telescope. How, is a mystery to me though as I run the mount with ASIAIR and don’t have a laptop connected to the mount.
I saved the png image I made to the landscape folder but where do I get an ini file. You didn’t explain that very well. Thank you.
Oh oops. Well the best thing you could do is copy paste one from another landscape. Make sure it is one that has the simplest form and a spherical type.
Then you alter the data as needed.
You didn't say what the last file in the folder was, or where you get it. YOu skipped right to stars in Stellarium.
Mine won't load, you didn't complete the recipe.
WTF....?
Hey there. You mean that description.en.utf8.bak file you see in the video? That was just an old file that you don't need. For a stellarium background to work you will only need the PNG file with the removed sky, and a landscape.ini file.
I want to make Yoyle City Landscape in Stellarium!
Yoyle mountain would be in your way… 😅
I have Stellarium for Apple. I tried this method sized the pano to 2048 x 1024 , named the file to match the Ini file. It says that it loaded correctly but there is no name in the side menu for landscapes it's just blank and the landscape does not show up it's just see through. Any one have any tips or came across this problem? I can't find a walk through for Apple if it's different.
I have no idea about Apple. A possible alternative route is to put your changed files into a ZIP file. And then in Stellarium you can use the button that says “Add new landscape” (or something similar). You then get to point to the zip file and it should then be installed into Stellarium.
Unfortunately it appears Street View as described in this video no longer exists.
Correct. I need to revisit this topic soon when I find a worthy alternative to the street view app
Great video , only you did not say how to save the file pixel size , I went and checked others and got a 2048 x 1024 but when I do it the image in stallerium comes out wonkie... That means weird ... BTW just subscribed
I didn’t say because my method of using Google Streetview produced an image of the correct proportion
@@KopLamp Hah ok , my google pic did not come out looking that good I used my phone to take the image but I must be missing something because my image looks wrong in stellerium
@@KopLamp I am trying to put the google image in stellerium without doing the background and see if it looks good ,, then i will take out the sky
Sounds like a good plan. If it doesn't work out, I am happy to look at your files if needed. You'll find my email address in the about section in UA-cam.
I just looked at one of mine and its resolution is 4608 x 2304 pixels. Did you set the ini file to use the file as a spherical type? I think that is essential to have it work as intended with files coming from Google StreetView
@@KopLamp OK my pixel size is different let me save it that way and see what happens
Looks like the street view app is no longer available. :(
Indeed. I need to find an alternative and remake this video.
My whole 360 degree fov is purple when i open it up in stellarium, does anyone know how to fix this?
That is weird... Did you save it as a transparent PNG file?
@@KopLamp yes I did, ive tried saving it as different texture resolutions aswell but i only get a completely purple sky and landscape in stellarium each time
Is it also purple in an image editor when opening the file from your Stellarium landscapes folder there?
@@jacquesloveridge30 If you want you can send me the file on my email address (see my about-tab on my channel). Perhaps I can spot something awry.
@@KopLamp I managed to get it working in the end, it was something to do with the Landscape.ini file just remade that. Thanks for the video and help anyway
Good but lack of information of picture size and what buttons on PS should use, the thing with these tutorials should be to show to non experieced watchers. Those who knows how PS works and knows everything don´t need tutorials, so if you back little bit and think that we who watch are "like small children" every step and every move you make should be with instructions and show "WHAT" button and what setting are and should be used and shown in the screen. If you do such a tutorial you will be famous
I’ll take it into account next time. 👍
Oh, another ting, the Google Photosphere is no longer supported.
Indeed. Will have to redo the video. Is on the todo list. But first that AM5 review I have been promising for months now 🥹🤘😅
@@KopLamp I wonder what is the heaviest OTA it could handle... A 14ft Newtonian with a 12" mirror 🤣
what fucking street view app? lmfao, nothing comes up looking like that.
Yeah it has been deprecated... I think I will need to revisit this story once I find a good alternative