Hey folks,
in this video we want to replace the native landscapes within Stellarium with your very own and personal backyard.
This helps enormously with imaging session planing: When does a Galaxy vanish behind a tree or a building next to your garden? When does the planets appear in the gap between the garage and your neighbors house?
And it’s as easy as it gets: One image with your Smartphone, one textfile with copied text and that’s that!
Come and join me on my journey to the night sky here on catchingphotons!
-Chris
Stellarium: https://stellarium.org/en/
paint.net: https://www.getpaint.net/download.html
Text of the landscape.ini [empty parts are otpional]
[landscape]
name = Hometown
author =Chris on YouTube
description = my backyard in midd Germany
type = spherical
maptex = chrisbackyard.png
angle_rotatez = +5
[location]
name = Hometown
planet = Earth
country = Germany
lattitude =
longitude =
alititude =
25 Comments
Excellent one! Can't wait to try it. I have a lot of obstructions in my back yard, this will help.
great Video Chris. I could Do this, However there Are lots Of Obstruction in my Place, Basically I Do all my Astro from Balcony, lol 😅
We haven't seen you in a long time. Thanks for the tutorial! I downloaded it for, later when I do an observatory above my studio on the roof and connect the goto via Wi-Fi to the computer and the Stelarium. This was a good lesson, you helped me. Have a nice day~
I learnt something new and important today! 😄
Nice to see this documented on youtube!
Been doing that with every personal astro location for years 😉
BTW – you can add an alter the folders in /path/stellarium/landscapes/… directly – no need to zip up every time you edit.
Also if your computer is hefty enough, try adding 4096×2048 panos – works for me and just looks so much nicer 😉
Hello, can we get a Teleskop for our Physik-Sammlung?
🙌 ρɾσɱσʂɱ
Love the greenscreen!
Very informative video, thank you for putting this together!
Planning to do this for the longest time.. too lazy, so far. 😉 Very helpful. cs
I've always wanted to have this custom background! Thanks so much, Chris.
Great video! Just a quick one: For those who have the newest Photoshop CC to edit with… Getting rid of a sky, filling in areas and resizing is amazingly so Simple now! Photoshop CC has taken ALL the hard work out of deleting a sky! For those that don't have Photoshop CC your method is really good. 👍Thanks!
Sadly It didn’t work for me, the app turned pink. I’m not too sure what I did wrong.
Wish I could do this just through the phone app.
Cool Video Chris! Customizing Stellarium with your home Landscape looks very good, and can be useful in many situations
I keep sending the zip file to stellarium but it says it's not a stellarium landscape
I miss your coffee 🙂 ~
My backyard looks like if you stand on top of the everest with a 360 camera and everything is soo close haha
My iPhone 13 pro can’t do full 360° panoramas. I’ll have to stitch together 2 panoramas or find an app that can do a 360° panorama
Excellent tutorial. However, it took me about 4 hours to figure out what I was doing wrong when trying to upload it to Stellarium, but I finally got it figured out. Thanks so much.
Very useful and easy to follow – thank you for doing this, appreciated
Hi Chris, Thank you very much for this video. I already did it following exactly every recommendation and my backyard looks amazing. Please could you explain how you created this video? I will want to create some personal videos like this one to explain my children and some friend's children using stellarium as background. Beforehand thank you.
Which projection should I use? My background looks terrrrrible!
hello, is this Stellarium live feed? how do I update livefeed? for today 2/21/2022 I heard venus jupitor and moon be a line so I am watching in live. but I think this is a recorded.
I've seen two other channels show how to do this, but they nveer elabourated on 'zeroing' your location. Nice video