Thanks Martin I was struggling getting my landscape to line up to North and couldn't find anything on it, your tutorial helped a lot.

Thanks for a really helpful tutorial. :)

I didnt know this was a thing. I just spent a few hours getting this setup. Most of that time was trying to get rid of my sky background scattered with trees. This is awesome! Now I can actually tell what I can see at home and when. Thanks!

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Well done. It’s cool isn’t it! Clear Skies.

Fabulous tutorial, Martin. I'll give it a go this weekend. Thanks for sharing.

Another great video! This was one of those features I didn't know that I needed. My yard has a very limited view, so it has always been difficult knowing what I can see. I just created a custom landscape today following these steps, and after playing around with the angle_rotatez parameter, it looks spot on. Thank you!

Thanks Martin most helpful video. cheers

Greeting from South Africa :-) Many thanks for the very clear tutorial - MUCH appreciated! Wishing you and your family a FANTASTIC 2023 with CLEAR SKIES!

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Nigel. You too!

Thank You, great and easy to follow video.

Thanks for this excellent tutorial.

@martinsastrophotography

3 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

absolutely wonderful Martin. Very clear and a great pace and explanations of every step. Now if I could just get rid of my house and neighbors' lights .... Well Done... Clear Skies everyone

@martinsastrophotography

5 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it! Yes, those annoying neighbour’s lights!!! Clear skies.

Thank you. Fantastic explanation and have been meaning to do this for years. Now have an added planning tool!

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment. Clear Skies!

That's what I was searching for. - Thanks a lot!

Brilliant. This looks simple enough to do. Thanks!

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks David. The tricky part is getting the elevation of the photo in the right place vertically so it matches what you see. Takes some trial and error. Clear Skies!

An excellent well thought out video. Followed your instructions and was successful first try. Of course I had to make the adjustments that you suggested in correcting north and removing some leftover pieces from the transparent area. Will definitely be watching more of your videos. Stan

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Great job Stan, and thank you so much for the positive feedback! Clear Skies.

Thank you Martin to fix my landscape, what a service !!!!!!!!

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

It was my pleasure!

Another really well presented video. I am in the process of setting up in order to change from standing around outside freezing with a dslr on my 80ED refractory to being able to auto-guide using my laptop from the comfort of the conservatory. Your very clear videos have been extremely useful in showing me how to configure and use the various software and equipment. Thank you for all your great work.

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Philip. I really appreciate you taking the time to comment and of course that your comments are so positive!! You will certainly enjoy staying warm while your kit gets cold! One of the best parts of the journey!!! Clear skies.

awesome!

I wanted to give this a try and read the Stellarium user guide first, almost gave up. Then I found this video and it couldn't be easier. Thanks a lot.

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great feedback. Glad it helped you! Clear skies.

Thanks for the great tutorial Martin. I was wondering how to do this properly and this video has made it crystal clear. Gives me something to do while I send my telescope off for repair :( Clear skies pal!

This is brilliant! Thanks

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Clear Skies!

Very helpfull video. I have a very limited space at home to stargaze, and this tutorial will help me a lot, many thanks and clear skies!!

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Joel. Clear Skies.

cool, thanks , Warren

Thank you!

Thanks for an great tutorial. Very informative style. I Just created my own custom landscape within about 1hour. I learned some helpful information from watching your tutorial & also from the other guy, Martin Schoenmaker, who commented below.

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Great stuff Gary. Thanks for the positive feedback. Clear skies!

great video and very helpful thank you~

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jordan. Clear Skies!

Hi there! A week ago I too made a video on how to create custom Stellarium Landscapes. Funny coincidence. Even more so as I am a Martin as well ;-) I used Streetview for creating the 360 panorama. It took a lot less work this way and produces a clean result.

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Martin. Unfortunately StreetView does not cover the view from people’s back gardens, but together your video and mine have all bases covered!!! Clear Skies.

@KopLamp

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography Ah, I think something got lost in translation (not a native EN-speaker). I meant the StreetView app. It has a 360 camera mode in which you can easily create a 360 panorama in your own garden. My video shows it step-by-step. I think you might like it as well.

thanks!

Briliant! I'll have to do this. It'll make planning what I can image much easier. Side question: how do you configure your stellarium to show you all the DSOs even when you are so zoomed out. Some objects for me only show up when I zoom in quite a lot.

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

Stellarium works that way because if it showed all the objects it would be a total mess...there are thousands of them!!! :-)

Was wondering how this was done, Thanks Martin.

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

Great video Martin. Thanks so much. If I had PhotoShop I think I could get it done, but unfortunately, I have GIMP and it is not an easy program to learn or I am unable to learn it. Translating your instruction into GiMP is proving to be a challenge. Thanks anyway. As I learn more I will be revisiting for directions. Good Viewing.

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that. I haven’t used GIMP I’m afraid so can’t help you there. Hope you figure it out.

Thanks Martin - I've been meaning to do this before, but it looked really hard. Actually, I've possibly found an improvement, having obsessed on this for the last few hours. If you use the app Google Street View, you can take photos from a tripod which you can extend spherically (vertical and horizontal) and it will then balance the brightness and merge the edges. Its not particularly highlighted, but there's a "share" option to then email the photo to yourself. Once done, the tweaks you suggest to get the eyeline right and make the sky transparent result in a great look (and a lot less panorama stitch marks). Thank you for the video, I have now got a very realistic view (Now....I need to chop some trees down!)

@pmasters2

3 жыл бұрын

Google street view is on Android and iPhone btw - I used the iPhone version, but ultimately, you just want its panorama abilities)

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Peter. Thanks for the info, I'll take a look. I'm glad you have achieved a good result! Have fun chopping the trees down!

Hi Martin, Great video - just one question - I don't think this can take account of the actual height of obstructions - as the file is a fixed no of pixels, or is it purely visual. I believe you can create a horizon file which uses the alt/az reading - so how would this interface with the landscape file?

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Bill. Thanks for that. Stellarium maps the pixels in the image you generate to the celestial sphere. Best thing is to try it and see what happens. It can take a few goes to get it to work really well, but it’s worth the effort.

Excellent and easy to follow explanation. I followed the sequence given in your video and created a zip file with my png and ini files. When I upload to Stellarium 23.3 I get the message that my landscape has been successfully loaded. The name of my landscape does not appear in the landscape list on the left, only as a blank box. My landscape is just a fuzzy blur. I have tried numerous permutations of both files but no success. Seems like there is a fault with the png but i cant determine what it might be.

great video ,how do you adjust the up down as well as ?

@martinsastrophotography

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. You can shift the whole image up and down in the photo editor until the horizon is in the right place.

@ninjageezer6802

4 ай бұрын

so its a proper trial and error .@@martinsastrophotography

@martinsastrophotography

4 ай бұрын

@@ninjageezer6802 Yes, but once it’s right it’s right.

A note that might help anyone getting the error "No landscape was installed. The selected file is not a ZIP.archive or does not contain a stellarium lanscape" : Martin named his .png simply as landscape.png. If you wanted to use a more specific name, thats fine, you just make sure the .ini points to it correctly....The thing that tripped my up for a while....the .ini file MUST still be called landscape.ini , regardless of your png filename... I was trying to change the name to match my imaging site name, but that causes it to not be recognized.

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

Great tips, thanks Nick.

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

@@Safestassets Please email your files to martinc1966@hotmail.co.uk and I will fix it for you on Sunday.

what software were you using on your pc to merge images etc?

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the question. I used Photoshop.

Hi Martin. I have just tried this on a Mac and just like some others I have a pink screen any ideas? I had to make a copy an .ini file from one of the pre installed backgrounds then change the text in Textedit, as i could not get anything else to be accepted by Stellarium.

@martinsastrophotography

4 ай бұрын

Hi Gary. Hard for me to help you as I don’t have a Mac, only a PC. Could you try on a PC first? If so I can help you get it working, and then you can try to migrate it to the Mac afterwards.

Hey! I know this is 3 years old now but I have a question. I am using Stellarium on an iPad, not the PC. Is it possible to add my landscape and have it sync to the Plus Version on the iPad?

@martinsastrophotography

5 ай бұрын

Hi Steve. That’s an interesting question. I have never tried doing that. I suspect the answer is no but I will do a bit of digging and let you know if I find anything suggesting it is possible.

@SteveHookEm

5 ай бұрын

Perfect Thanks! I don't use the PC while shooting very often. I guess I can since I can connect from station mode to the ASIAir from inside. @@martinsastrophotography

Very Good Tutorial, except it would be Fantastic if you have told all the time what button combination should be used in Photoshop especially when using magic tool and doing the sky, if you like you could add a explanation here in your video and I think you would get 5 Star applauses

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Pekka. Thank you for your comment. For deleting the sky, the magic wand tool is used by left-clicking with the mouse to select an area and then just pressing the DELETE key to delete the selected area. I hope this helps.

I have created everything but can't find my coordinates with that kind of notation. Never seen or heard of it Before. Can you point me in the proper direction. The manual says to just enter it. Doesn't say what it really is called. Where can I find it? Thanks

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Walt. You need to enter your location in latitude and longitude in degrees, minutes and seconds in the format +XXdXX'XX" where XX are numbers. There are many ways to find your location. I use Google Earth, which is free to download and install on a PC. You may need to change the units to degree/minutes/seconds rather than decimal degrees. It will give you your lat/long and altitude. Another way to find your location is to use your smartphone. Apps like Google Earth, myLocation, PS Align Pro are all able to tell you your lat/long position in degrees/minutes/seconds. There are lots of other apps that will also tell you your location. I recommend Google Earth as it gives you lat, long and altitude. I hope this helps.

Hi Martin, another great video. I have copied your method exactly (or so I thought) but when I try to load into Stellarium I get the following error message: "No landscape was installed. The selected file is not a ZIP.archive or does not contain a stellarium lanscape" I know other people have had a similar problem. The two files look fine to me but there is obviously something wrong. Could I send the two files to you to see if there is a problem? Thanks Dave

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

Yes, please send the files (not zipped!) to me at martinc1966@hotmail.co.uk

@troopershill

Жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography Hi Martin, I have just sent them to you. Thank you

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

@@troopershill Ok Dave, I will take a look.

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

@@troopershill Your email has not arrived. Please check the email address you used. (There is a ‘c’ after ‘martin’ that is often missed.)

@troopershill

Жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography Hi Martin, I didnt see the letter c, sorry. Just resent it now

do we need to put the altitude to the postition to sea level?

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Enter your elevation above sea level in metres.

Martin, I have followed the tutorial but when I get into Stellarium to load the zip file I get the following message: 'No landscape was installed. The selected file is not a zip archive or does not contain a stellarium landscape'. I have saved my image as a png and created the ini file and sent to a zip file. Any ideas??? Thanks

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there. If you email your two files to me at martinc1966@hotmail.co.uk I will try to fix it for you.

@triggershotphotography5223

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography ah thanks. I'll email them later. Great tutorial 👌

@pmcenroe96

2 жыл бұрын

I'm have the same issue Martin

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

@@pmcenroe96 Hi Peter. If you email me your image file and landscape.ini file to martinc1966@hotmail.co.uk I will fix it for you.

Help. When I create the zip file with Windows 10 using the PNG file and the INI file . When I try to Open the zip file in Stellarium, it reports the selected file is not a ZIP file or does not contain a Landscape File I have even tried using some of the stored PNG image files ( renamed them and changed the name in the INI file) Stellarium will not recognize / open the file. Any idea What I may be doing wrong. Thanks Steve

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Steve. When you create the zip file are you following the process I use in my video (see 15 min 43 seconds into the video)? I am also wondering if your Windows Explorer settings are set to hide file extensions which can cause problems. I suggest you make sure that this option is turned off then check your file names and extensions are correct. Let me know if this helps.

@stevekaiser4959

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography Thanks for getting back to me on this. Using windows 10 to create the zip file. the file extension is visible, when I open Stellarium and browse to the file location, it "sees" the ZIP file. but for some reason it willnot recognize properly ( either a ZIP problem or Landscape image problem per the ERROR msg) I suspect something in the ZIP operation. For instance: I can take one of the current landscape files ( trees) I copy the ini file and the png files and use them to create a new mytrees.ini and mytrees.png I then zip those into a file. open stellarium , and try to load. it will not extract the file. here is my Modified trees.INI ----------------------- [landscape] name = mytrees author = s kaiser description = Trees in flower mound home type = spherical maptex = mytrees.png # Orientation: South is Top! angle_rotatez = 0 ----------------------- Just can't seem to get this figured out. take care Steve

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevekaiser4959 Hi again. There are significant differences in your ini file. I see no [location] section at all! I suggest you copy mine exactly, with zero changes, even keep the file names the same as mine, then change one thing at a time trying the zip and import each time until it stops importing into Stellarium. My landscape.ini file is available in the comments section of the video. The image file is landscape.png

@stevekaiser4959

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography Hi Yes , I did have location information in the INI but this failed so I had removed the location information from the INI file as a test at one point to see if that fixed the problem. Anyway.. I downloaded your INI example and changed the sample PNG file to your file name. IT WORKED!!!! Thanks so much for your help.! I will start modifying the INI for my location and to make sure all stays working then I will work on a PNG file of my own. Take care Steve

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevekaiser4959 Great! Glad it’s sorted for you. Clear Skies!!

What document do you paste those things into?

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry Matt, can you be a bit more specific? I am not sure what you are asking me. Thanks.

@matthilton8959

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography the details you have posted in the video to make the indi file thing to orientate the landscape

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthilton8959 Take a look in the video description. It contains the full text for the landscape.ini file which must accompany your landscape.png image file. These two files just need to be in a folder that you can browse to from within Stellarium as demonstrated in the video. You will need to edit the landscape.ini file for your location. Hope this helps.

I get the reply in stellarium that the file is not a zip archive or not a stellarium landscape.

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Quite a few people have trouble like this. Please check carefully that the image is the right format and that the landscape.ini file contents and format are exactly right and refer to the image filename. See the description for the video for details of this.

@gooe9561

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography Thank you for the reply. The issue I had was that I included dot ini in the ini file name. I removed that and named it simply "landscape" and that took care of the problem. In fact, I did not have to put these in a zipper folder. I just put the ini file and landscape png into a "custom" folder inside ProgramFiles/stellarium/landscapes. Stellarium loaded that into the landscapes tab within stellarium for me to select. Thank you again for your reply.

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

@@gooe9561 Interesting… I’m glad you fixed it. Thanks for sharing the details. Clear Skies.

cant get it to work- just keeps saying its not a ZIP archive...tried many permutations still nothing!?!?!

@captaincook6666

2 жыл бұрын

I managed to sort it...the .ini isnt recognised unless you save as? But now my image is very compressed- is there a specific size I need to make the image or aspect ratio?

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Please email your .ini file and image file to me at martinc1966@hotmail.com and I will fix it for you.

i tried it as you said but have a magenta color, what to do?

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

I need a bit more I information to help you. Please explain in more detail ... at what step you see magenta colour. Which parts of image etc...

@RigoFromSpain

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography when i load it in stellarium and then when i open it it is only magenta color, strange

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

@@RigoFromSpain The whole ground and sky, or just the ground?

@RigoFromSpain

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography the wole Ground and Sky, thanks for helling me Martin

@martinsastrophotography

3 жыл бұрын

Ok. Can you please privately message me your email address. I will then email you and you can reply attaching your files. I will then try to solve it for you. Here’s how to privately message me: By clicking the username under any video, you're directed to the poster's KZread Channel. Clicking "About" and then "Send Message" directs you to a form on which you can compose and send a private message.

my landscape is too low

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Move your photo up in the image and fill the space created at the bottom with black.

Thank you for your video but I am getting a pink screen every time I try🙄

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

You can email me your files if you want, and I will fix them for you and send them back... martinc1966@hotmail.co.uk

@letsgofishing3249

Жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography Thanks

As usual these instructions never work on KZread. It's always something. "error landscape not installed" keeps popping up. Keep getting Administrator issue even after editing permissions. Windows 10 is the worst to ever happen to PC.

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Paa. Email me your image file and ini file at martinc1966@hotmail.co.uk and I will sort it for you. :)

@DawgcityClev

Жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography I'm just seeing this response. I'll still email it to you if that is still your current email. I was looking into this again the past few days.

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

@@DawgcityClev Yes, email it to me. I will fix it for you and then email it back. The most common error is people not realising that Windows hides the .txt file extension when displaying the filename, so you think for file is called landscape.ini when it is actually called landscape.ini.txt which will not work!!! There is an option in Windows Explorer to hide file extensions for known file types…it needs to be turned off!

@DawgcityClev

Жыл бұрын

@@martinsastrophotography Ok I sent it

@martinsastrophotography

Жыл бұрын

@@DawgcityClev You email has not arrived. Please check email address carefully. (There is a “c” in it after “martin” that people sometimes leave out by mistake.)

You never say how to save that file as .ini Off to the next video to see if anyone can remember to show ever single step, no matter how trivial they think a step is. NOtepad doesn't save files to files caled ".ini"

@martinsastrophotography

2 жыл бұрын

Save the file as a text file using Notepad. Then rename it as I indicated using Windows Explorer by right clicking on the filename, choose ‘rename’, then type the new filename (landscape.ini). Sorry if I missed a step you needed to see.

Excellent and easy to follow explanation. I followed the sequence given in your video and created a zip file with my png and ini files. When I upload to Stellarium 23.3 I get the message that my landscape has been successfully loaded. The name of my landscape does not appear in the landscape list on the left, only as a blank box. My landscape is just a fuzzy blur. I have tried numerous permutations of both files but no success. Seems like there is a fault with the png but i cant determine what it might be.

@kenhaughan5428

8 ай бұрын

Problem solved. When I wrote my own ini. file I used ( ) these brackets instead of these ones [ ] for landscape and location🙄