


png ' ) % milky way stretches horizontally across image, centered on galactic core, magellanic clouds in upper - right quadrant tempfile = ' temp. % Convert Milky Way image from galactic coords to J2000 equatorial coords for Stellarium 0.13 clear all A = imread ( ' milkyway - desired. To install it, just replace the original milkyway.png under Stellarium's program files (.textures/milkyway.png)Ĭredit to Nick Risinger's Photopic Sky Survey image from which this image is based. You can find the new 3000px texture for download here: I think that a higher resolution image should come in future versions of Stellarium. Here it is at 6.0) that's particularly great for previewing the "look" of a wide-field astrophoto.

The result is a much more detailed Milky Way view (when the Milky Way Brightness option is turned up. The image shared on the APOD link above is 3000 pixels wide so I figured I would try using it to make a better texture and replaced it under Stellarium's program files (Mac: Stellarium/Contents/Resources/textures/milkyway.png) It was made from Nick Risinger's Photopic Sky Survey image here: and The original texture is 512px*512px in size. One of the things that I'm not a huge fan of is the resolution of the Milky Way texture. I personally use Stellarium for planning astrophotography shoots and workshops.
