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Tutorial: Your Custom Backyard in Stellarium

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May 3, 2022
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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 =

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