STELLARIUM CUSTOM LANDSCAPE INSTALL
STELLARIUM CUSTOM LANDSCAPE ZIP FILE
STELLARIUM CUSTOM LANDSCAPE ARCHIVE

STELLARIUM CUSTOM LANDSCAPE INSTALL

If your screen comes up blank after installing the landscape, close Stellarium, download this zip file: johnglennastroparkmedium.zip and go through the steps above to install this medium resolution version making sure to select the medium zip file.

The graphics cards in some computers may not be able to handle a file that large. By default the largest, highest quality 4096px X 2048px image is installed. I’ve created two versions of the image file used for the landscape. You do not need to set the location, it’s built in to the landscape file.

Before closing the View window, check mark Use this landscape as default if you want Stellarium to always use the park when it opens.

STELLARIUM CUSTOM LANDSCAPE ZIP FILE

Navigate to where you saved the johnglennastropark zip file, select the zip file and click Open.

STELLARIUM CUSTOM LANDSCAPE ARCHIVE

Under Options make sure all of the boxes are checked marked except Use this landscape as default then, at the bottom, click the Add/remove landscapes button, in the new popup window make sure Switch to the new landscape after installation is checked then click the Install a new landscape from a ZIP archive button. In the Sky Viewing and Options box, click the Landscapes tab. Move the mouse pointer to the lower left of the screen to make the options menu pop out and click the S ky Viewing and Options button, or hit F4 on your keyboard. InstallationĪfter downloading and installing Stellaium, open it. Right-click this link to download the johnglennastropark.zip Remember where you’ve saved the file, but you don’t need to unzip it. What does that mean? It’s free, but you can’t change it and you can’t be greedy and try to make money from it. They are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License. I’m making the custom JGAP landscape files available to everyone for free. Fortunately it was an overcast day so the lighting on the park was flat and even. Last week I stopped into JGAP during the day to take a 360 degree panorama and used that to create a custom Stellarium landscape for the park. The program comes with several pre-made, generic landscapes, but also allows users to create their own custom landscapes for specific locations.

You enter a location, date, and time and Stellarium shows you the sky. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux from It’s like having a planetarium on your desktop! John Glenn Astronomy Park Custom Stellarium Landscape If you’d like to preview the night sky over the park, you can use a free program called Stellarium. Parking along OH-664, a winding, two-lane, unlit rural road, is just plain stupid. There are limited parking spaces available so on Friday and Saturday nights during the peak months of summer you may want to arrive early or make a reservation here: Located at 20531 OH-664, Logan, OH 43138 JGAP is free and open to the public. John Glenn Astronomy Parkįortunately, last year, the John Glenn Astronomy Park () opened in Hocking Hills. Most of the Hocking Hills region has skies dark enough, Bortle Class 3 to 4, to see and photograph the Milky Way, but finding a clear view of the sky is hard. Here in central Ohio, one of the hardest aspects of Milky Way photography is finding a publicly accessible dark sky location. Milky Way season has returned to the northern hemisphere and in a few days, if the weather is clear, we’ll have our first opportunities to photograph the colorful galactic core again.

Stellarium custom landscape