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How to use stellarium software to photograph the milky way
How to use stellarium software to photograph the milky way




how to use stellarium software to photograph the milky way how to use stellarium software to photograph the milky way

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.

how to use stellarium software to photograph the milky way

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.






How to use stellarium software to photograph the milky way