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Landscapes

2013-03-27T06:11:59Z

Matthewg42: /* Europe */

==How to install landscapes==
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

===Automatic===
<div style="float:right">http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/stellarium-0-11-1/add-remove-landscapes-button.png</div>
If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" feature to install landscapes automatically:
*Open the "Sky and viewing options" window by clicking on the appropriate button in the left button bar (or press the F4 key).
*The "Add/remove landscapes" button is at the bottom of the "Landscape" tab.
*When you press it, the "Add/remove landscapes" window will appear. It allows you to install <tt>.zip</tt> files containing landscapes. It also lists the user-installed landscapes and allows you to remove them.

Note that while this makes installing landscapes easier, it may also cause you to overlook what else is included in the ZIP archive. Landscape packages created without this feature in mind may contain other files, such as alternative textures in different sizes.

<div style="align:center">http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/stellarium-0-11-1/add-remove-landscapes-window.png</div>

===Manual===
If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/wiruna-field.zip] (Wiruna field Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/egarden-new.zip] (Egarden 8 panel Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/neven-new.zip] (Como area Sydney Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !
===Interplanetary===
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{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip|name=Apollo 11 landing site|author=Mathew Myrup|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :)}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip|name=Apollo 17 landing site|author=Mathew Myrup|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan.}}

===Africa===
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{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip|name=Sahara, Libya|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|compat=0.10.x|description=This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Libya.}}

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{{Package|image=http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip|name=Cap Masoala, Madagascar|author=Matthias D. Frei|license=GPLv2+|compat=0.9.x|description=This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]}}

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===Asia===
{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip|name=Mount Everest|author=Makc|license=©|compat=0.9.x|description=Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.}}

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===Australasia===
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===Europe===
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'''Note:''' If you have problems with this landscape (landscape doesn't appear because of low memory on the graphic chip), use the corresponding ''old style'' landscape below or use a smaller resolution (see the README file in the package).}}

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{{Package|image=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip|name=Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=CC BY-NC-ND 3.0|compat=0.10.x|description=La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008. '''[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz KMZ file]'''. }}

{{Package|image=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip|name=Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=CC BY-NC-ND 3.0|compat=0.10.x|description=Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010. '''[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png|url=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip|name=Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland|author=Christian Waldvogel|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096). }}

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Gianfranco Mazzani photographed this panorama in july 2004 by using a Nikon Coolpix 8700, and stitched
the original 10 pictures together into a spherical panorama using Hugin program. The panorama has been
than cutted into 8 alfa channel pictures and re-dimensioned the width to 2048 pixel and then dimensioned
the height to 32 cm by using Photoschop elements 2.
}}

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{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip|name=River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK|author=Jan Wedekind|license=CC SA-2.0|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0] }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip|name=Ares, Galicia, Spain|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17. }}

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{{Package|image=http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg|url=http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip|name=Munegu, MC|author=[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/Bahia_de_Cadiz.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/Bahia_de_Cadiz.zip|name=Bahia de Cádiz, Spain|author=José Codejón|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=A new bridge is being built across de bay. The 360° panorama image was taken at noon of September 10th, 2012, from the pier of the small marina just closed to the Cadiz head of the bridge.

The final picture is the result of stitching 11 frames, taken out of a 63 seconds full HD video, using PhotoStitch and Gimp 2.6.8. }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg|url=http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip|name=Amstelveen, The Netherlands|author=[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb) }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.png|url=http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.zip|name=Sirene Observatory, Lagarde d'Apt (84), France|author=[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene] accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb) }}

{{Package|image=http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png|url=http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip|name=Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland|author=[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb) }}

{{Package|image=http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png|url=http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip|name=Woodhenge near Stonehenge|author=[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Woodhenge near Stonehenge was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.

The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. }}

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{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip|name=Rila Monastery, Bulgaria|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

{{Package|image=http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg|url=http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip|name=Silistar, Bulgaria|author=[http://bg360.net BG360]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano]. }}

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{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip|name=Central Munich|author=Markus Dähne|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-) }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip|name=Leist, Switzerland|author=Bernd Lang|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist. }}

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{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip|name=Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip|name=Roman Theatre of Orange|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_cambridge_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_cambridge.zip|name=Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK|author=[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_grantchester_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/grantchester.zip|name=Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK|author=[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Panorama from Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March. Flat horizon. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip|name=Pico do Areeiro|author=Filipe Gomes|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip|name=Caniga Country|author=[http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg|url=http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip|name=Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia|author=Peter Lynch|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip|name=Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France|author=[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov AAAOV]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip|name=Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France|author=[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov AAAOV]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip|name=La Guardia|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_uvalno_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_uvalno.zip|name=Uvalno, Czech Republic|author=|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=A view from a garden in the village of Uvalno, Czech Republic. }}

{{Package|image=http://astro.sentvid.org/stellarium/sentvid-thumbnail.png|url=http://astro.sentvid.org/stellarium/sentvid.zip|name=Šentvid, Ljubljana, Slovenia|author=|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=View from the roof of the observatory of Gymnasium Šentvid, Ljubljana, Slovenia. }}

{{Package|image=http://astronomia.zagan.pl/pliki/stellarium-moczyn.png|url=http://astronomia.zagan.pl/pliki/moczyn.zip|name=Poland,Zagan - sity Johannes Kepler|author=[http://astronomia.zagan.pl/articles.php?article_id=21 Jacek Patka]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=View of the old quarter. }}

{{Package|image=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip|name=Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.

[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file] }}

{{Package|image=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip|name=Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.

Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file] }}

{{Package|image=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png|url=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip|name=Frantoio Rodiano, Italy|author=Christian Waldvogel|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096). }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/luene.jpg|url=http://www.ausgerechnet-jetzt.de/lueneburg.zip|name=Top of Water Tower of Lueneburg, Germany|author=Uwe Prolingheuer|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view from the top of old Water Tower 56m above ground, constructed 1906/07, in Lueneburg, a town with many retained medieval houses. Northern Germany. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/gas-gao.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/gas-gao.zip|name=GAS GAO, Russia|author=[http://www.kepler-observatorium.ru/ Andrey Kuznetsov]|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Russia, Caucasus. The astronomical science station on the mountain Shadjatmaz. This is the view from amateur's observatory (by Andrey Kuznetsov, Sergey Kiselev). }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/caucasus.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/caucasus.zip|name=Caucasus, Russia|author=[http://www.kepler-observatorium.ru/ Andrey Kuznetsov]|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=North Caucasus, Elbrus. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/fenino.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/fenino.zip|name=Fenino, Russia|author=Jerfolld|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Cozy russian village, 50 km northwest from Tver. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/junost.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/junost.zip|name=Jynost', Russia|author=Jerfolld|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Russia, Tver, st. Planernaya. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_cuneo_thumbnail.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_cuneo.zip|name=Cuneo', Italy|author=Robybasso|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Cuneo, Italy. }}

===North America===
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{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip|name=San Jose, California, USA|author=BrendaEM|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically. }}

{{Package|image=http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg|url=http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini|name=Berkeley, California, USA|author=Lee Trampleasure Amosslee|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.jrctech.net/landscapes/wiki-photos/tn_School-Image2.png|url=http://www.jrctech.net/landscapes/chesterton_school.zip|name=Chesterton Elementary School - San Diego, California, USA|author=[http://www.jrctech.net John Chester]|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=This landscape was taken to help encourage students to learn about science and astronomy using Stellarium. The panorama was taken at the playground area of Chesterton Elementary School on October 23, 2011. The image was constructed using the Multiple Image Method using 8 overlapping images to provide a high level of detail. The original composite panorama image was 22442 (width) x 2418 (height) pixels . Composite photo reduced to 5 equally sized photos of 2048 by 1024 pixels. Many trees created complex horizon background but left details, such as tether-ball poles, in place during transparency development to keep landscape realistic. The lines of the playground provide an interesting perspective with Stellarium. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip|name=El Tajin, Mexico|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

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{{Package|image=http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png|url=http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip|name=University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA|author=Martin C. Doege|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=View from Farrand Field at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University], with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb) }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jasperpyramidisland_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jasperpyramidisland.zip|name=Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada|author=[http://www.jasperdarksky.org/stellarium Rogier Gruys]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Pyramid Island dark sky observation site in [http://pc.gc.ca/jasper Jasper National Park], Alberta, Canada - world's largest [http://www.jasperdarksky.org/ Dark Sky Preserve]. This site is only 15 min from the town of Jasper, yet nearly perfectly dark. The panorama was taken just before sunset in October 2011. }}

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The full panorama, including sky, can be viewed at [http://www.360cities.net/image/heritage-park-museum#0.00,0.00,70.0 360Cities].

This collection of early 20th Century log buildings shows the diverse construction styles used by immigrant settlers of the Skeena Valley. The two story Kalum Lake Hotel is the centrepiece of the park. To the right of the hotel a summer student talks with two of the fifteen or so young visitors attending a children's day.}}

===South America===
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{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip|name=Cachi, Argentina|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip|name=Laguna Verde, Bolivia|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia. }}

{{Package|image=http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png|url=http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip|name=Swiss Euler Telescope, ESO La Silla Observatory, Chile|author=[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots] }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip|name=Divinópolis, Brazilia|author=[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira] photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. }}

===Polar regions===
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===Special===
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==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [[Customising_Landscapes|Stellarium User Guide]], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email to any Stellarium developers and we'll put it on our site.

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north
*The user guide, section 5.7: [[Customising Landscapes]]

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| class="wikitable"
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
|[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
| Windows; may also run on Linux using [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine]
| Shareware/demo
| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No source code.
|-
|[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
|
|-
| Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Image Composite Editor]
| Windows
| Free (costless)
|
|}

==External links==
*[http://stargazerslounge.com/primers-tutorials/122628-tutorial-custom-stellarium-landscapes.html Tutorial: Custom Stellarium landscapes], thread at the Stargazers Lounge forum
*[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/3759113/ Stellarium landscape image of my back porch], thread at the Cloudy Nights forum (discusses using a home-made fish-eye lens from a peep-hole to create a "fisheye" landscape)

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2013-03-27T06:10:59Z

Matthewg42: /* Europe */

==How to install landscapes==
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

===Automatic===
<div style="float:right">http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/stellarium-0-11-1/add-remove-landscapes-button.png</div>
If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" feature to install landscapes automatically:
*Open the "Sky and viewing options" window by clicking on the appropriate button in the left button bar (or press the F4 key).
*The "Add/remove landscapes" button is at the bottom of the "Landscape" tab.
*When you press it, the "Add/remove landscapes" window will appear. It allows you to install <tt>.zip</tt> files containing landscapes. It also lists the user-installed landscapes and allows you to remove them.

Note that while this makes installing landscapes easier, it may also cause you to overlook what else is included in the ZIP archive. Landscape packages created without this feature in mind may contain other files, such as alternative textures in different sizes.

<div style="align:center">http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/stellarium-0-11-1/add-remove-landscapes-window.png</div>

===Manual===
If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/wiruna-field.zip] (Wiruna field Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/egarden-new.zip] (Egarden 8 panel Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/neven-new.zip] (Como area Sydney Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !
===Interplanetary===
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{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip|name=Mars Opportunity Rover|author=Mike|license=Public Domain|compat=0.9.x|description=Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip|name=International Space Station|author=Makc|license=GPL|compat=0.9.x|description=Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip|name=Apollo 11 landing site|author=Mathew Myrup|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :)}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip|name=Apollo 17 landing site|author=Mathew Myrup|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan.}}

===Africa===
{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip|name=Idehan Ubari, Libya|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|compat=0.10.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Libya.}}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip|name=Leptis Magna, Libya|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|compat=0.10.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].}}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip|name=Sahara, Libya|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|compat=0.10.x|description=This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Libya.}}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip|name=Volcano Waw al-Namus, Libya|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|compat=0.10.x|description=This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.}}

{{Package|image=http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip|name=Cap Masoala, Madagascar|author=Matthias D. Frei|license=GPLv2+|compat=0.9.x|description=This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip|name=Mbabane, Swaziland|author=Quinton Reissmann|compat=0.9.x|description=Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.}}

{{Package|image=http://stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/gizapyramids.jpg|url=http://https://sites.google.com/site/bytes9365/stellarium/gizapyramids.zip|name=Giza Pyramids|author=Ricardo Liberato|license=CC BY-SA 2.0|compat=0.10.x|description=Shows a view of the pyramids of Giza looking North East. The main three pyramids (left to right) are Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu. Khafre looks largest in this shot but in fact Khufu is slightly larger than Khafre.}}

===Asia===
{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip|name=Mount Everest|author=Makc|license=©|compat=0.9.x|description=Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip|name=Jantar Mantar|author=Barry Perlus & Stellarium team|license=CC BY-NC-SA 3.0|compat=0.9.x|description=Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].}}

===Australasia===
{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/beaumont-hills.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip|name=Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia|author=Barry Gerdes|license=GPLv2+|compat=0.9.x|description=Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide].}}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/transit-hill.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip|name=Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia|author=Graeme Ewing|compat=0.9.x|description=Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip|name=Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia|author=Clive Nelson|compat=0.9.x|description=Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.}}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_largsbay_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_largsbay.zip|name=Largs Bay in South Australia|author=Martin Lewicki|license=GPL|compat=0.9.x|description=Panoramic view of Largs Bay in South Australia 8 panel old style landscape. Largs Pier Hotel facade in SSE and Largs Bay Sailing Club due east. Jetty extends to Gulf St Vincent to the west.}}

===Europe===
{{Package|image=https://raw.github.com/martignoni/ependes-landscape/master/ependes-thumbnail.png|url=https://github.com/martignoni/ependes-landscape/raw/master/ependes.zip|name=Épendes Observatory, Fribourg, Switzerland|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Mina Nicolas Martignoni]|license=CC BY-NC-SA 3.0|compat=0.10.x|description=The [http://www.observatoire-naef.ch/ Épendes Observatory] ([http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?params=46.76236_N_7.13938_E 46°45′45″N 7°08′22″E]) is located near the city of Fribourg, Switzerland. The images for this landscape were taken in August 2006. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096). File size is about 2.4 MB.

'''Note:''' If you have problems with this landscape (landscape doesn't appear because of low memory on the graphic chip), use the corresponding ''old style'' landscape below or use a smaller resolution (see the README file in the package).}}

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{{Package|image=http://michael.nadev.net/pub/wurania.png|url=http://michael.nadev.net/pub/wurania.zip|name=Urania Observatory, Vienna, Austria|author=Michael Prokosch|license=CC BY-ND 3.0|compat=0.9.x|description=The [http://www.astronomie-wien.at/astronomie_urania.html Urania Observatory] (48°12′41.88″N 16°23′1.53″E) is located right in the middle of the city of Vienna, capital of Austria. Built in 1910 under emporer Franz Joseph I. it's the countries oldest non-scientifical observatory still in use for people's education. This landscape was taken in August 2011. If you are not distracted by the stars, you can even see St. Stephan's cathedral, the Viennese Giant Wheel and the Danube Canal. File size is about 11.5 MB.}}

{{Package|image=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip|name=Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=CC BY-NC-ND 3.0|compat=0.10.x|description=La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008. '''[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz KMZ file]'''. }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png|url=http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip|name=Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland|author=Christian Waldvogel|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096). }}

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Gianfranco Mazzani photographed this panorama in july 2004 by using a Nikon Coolpix 8700, and stitched
the original 10 pictures together into a spherical panorama using Hugin program. The panorama has been
than cutted into 8 alfa channel pictures and re-dimensioned the width to 2048 pixel and then dimensioned
the height to 32 cm by using Photoschop elements 2.
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{{Package|image=http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg|url=http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip|name=Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain|author=Uwe Buecher|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter). }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip|name=English Garden, Munich, Germany|author=Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/voksenlia.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip|name=Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway|author=Steinar Midtskogen|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0). }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip|name=Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland|author=Friedrich Noelle, Barry Gerdes|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip|name=Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland|author=[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB) }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip|name=Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England|author=[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub. (1MB) }}

{{Package|image=http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg|url=http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip|name=Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales|author=[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB) }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/ponta-da-piedade.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip|name=Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal|author=Johan|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip|name=Gurnigel, Switzerland|author=Martin Mutti|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/tishinka-ardashev.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip|name=Tishinka, Russia|author=Dmitri Ardashev|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow (55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195). }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip|name=T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France|author=Sylvain Rondi|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip|name=T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France|author=Sylvain Rondi|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France). }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip|name=River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK|author=Jan Wedekind|license=CC SA-2.0|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0] }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip|name=Ares, Galicia, Spain|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip|name=Ovindoli, Italy|author=Pierluigi Panunzi|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip|name=Rustrel, France|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France. }}

{{Package|image=http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg|url=http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip|name=Stintino, Italy|author=[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip|name=St Peter's Square, Vatican|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

{{Package|image=http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg|url=http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip|name=Munegu, MC|author=[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/Bahia_de_Cadiz.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/Bahia_de_Cadiz.zip|name=Bahia de Cádiz, Spain|author=José Codejón|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=A new bridge is being built across de bay. The 360° panorama image was taken at noon of September 10th, 2012, from the pier of the small marina just closed to the Cadiz head of the bridge.

The final picture is the result of stitching 11 frames, taken out of a 63 seconds full HD video, using PhotoStitch and Gimp 2.6.8. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg|url=http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip|name=Cocentaina, Spain|author=[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg|url=http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip|name=Amstelveen, The Netherlands|author=[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb) }}

{{Package|image=http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png|url=http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip|name=Son & Breugel, The Netherlands|author=[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB) }}

{{Package|image=http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.png|url=http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.zip|name=Sirene Observatory, Lagarde d'Apt (84), France|author=[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene] accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb) }}

{{Package|image=http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png|url=http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip|name=Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland|author=[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb) }}

{{Package|image=http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png|url=http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip|name=Woodhenge near Stonehenge|author=[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Woodhenge near Stonehenge was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.

The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg|url=http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip|name=Stonehenge|author=[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip|name=Rila Monastery, Bulgaria|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

{{Package|image=http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg|url=http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip|name=Silistar, Bulgaria|author=[http://bg360.net BG360]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano]. }}

{{Package|image=http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg|url=http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip|name=St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria|author=[http://bg360.net BG360]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano]. }}

{{Package|image=http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg|url=http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip|name=Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria|author=[http://bg360.net BG360]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano]. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip|name=Central Munich|author=Markus Dähne|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-) }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip|name=Leist, Switzerland|author=Bernd Lang|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist. }}

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{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip|name=Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

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{{Package|image=http://astronomia.zagan.pl/pliki/stellarium-moczyn.png|url=http://astronomia.zagan.pl/pliki/moczyn.zip|name=Poland,Zagan - sity Johannes Kepler|author=[http://astronomia.zagan.pl/articles.php?article_id=21 Jacek Patka]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=View of the old quarter. }}

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[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file] }}

{{Package|image=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png|url=http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip|name=Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal|author=[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.

Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file] }}

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{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/fenino.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/fenino.zip|name=Fenino, Russia|author=Jerfolld|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Cozy russian village, 50 km northwest from Tver. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/junost.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/junost.zip|name=Jynost', Russia|author=Jerfolld|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=Russia, Tver, st. Planernaya. }}

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http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_cuneo.zip

===North America===
{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/saltlakecity.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip|name=Salt Lake City Panorama|author=Hiram Bertoch|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program. }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip|name=San Jose, California, USA|author=BrendaEM|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically. }}

{{Package|image=http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg|url=http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini|name=Berkeley, California, USA|author=Lee Trampleasure Amosslee|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version. }}

{{Package|image=http://www.jrctech.net/landscapes/wiki-photos/tn_School-Image2.png|url=http://www.jrctech.net/landscapes/chesterton_school.zip|name=Chesterton Elementary School - San Diego, California, USA|author=[http://www.jrctech.net John Chester]|license=|compat=0.10.x|description=This landscape was taken to help encourage students to learn about science and astronomy using Stellarium. The panorama was taken at the playground area of Chesterton Elementary School on October 23, 2011. The image was constructed using the Multiple Image Method using 8 overlapping images to provide a high level of detail. The original composite panorama image was 22442 (width) x 2418 (height) pixels . Composite photo reduced to 5 equally sized photos of 2048 by 1024 pixels. Many trees created complex horizon background but left details, such as tether-ball poles, in place during transparency development to keep landscape realistic. The lines of the playground provide an interesting perspective with Stellarium. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip|name=El Tajin, Mexico|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip|name=Mexico Ciudad, Mexico|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip|name=Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage]. }}

{{Package|image=http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png|url=http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip|name=University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA|author=Martin C. Doege|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=View from Farrand Field at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University], with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb) }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jasperpyramidisland_thumb.jpg|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jasperpyramidisland.zip|name=Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada|author=[http://www.jasperdarksky.org/stellarium Rogier Gruys]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Pyramid Island dark sky observation site in [http://pc.gc.ca/jasper Jasper National Park], Alberta, Canada - world's largest [http://www.jasperdarksky.org/ Dark Sky Preserve]. This site is only 15 min from the town of Jasper, yet nearly perfectly dark. The panorama was taken just before sunset in October 2011. }}

{{Package|image=http://www3.telus.net/len_l/heritagepark-thumbnail.png|url=http://www3.telus.net/len_l/landscape_heritagepark.zip|name=Heritage Park Museum, in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada|author=Lenard Lindstrom|license=CC BY-NC-ND 3.0|compat=0.9.x|description=A view of [http://www.heritageparkmuseum.com Heritage Park Museum], Terrace, British Columbia, Canada. It was photographed in August, 2011.

The full panorama, including sky, can be viewed at [http://www.360cities.net/image/heritage-park-museum#0.00,0.00,70.0 360Cities].

This collection of early 20th Century log buildings shows the diverse construction styles used by immigrant settlers of the Skeena Valley. The two story Kalum Lake Hotel is the centrepiece of the park. To the right of the hotel a summer student talks with two of the fifteen or so young visitors attending a children's day.}}

===South America===
{{Package|image=http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png|url=http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip|name=ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile|author=[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO]. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip|name=Cachi, Argentina|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi. }}

{{Package|image=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg|url=http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip|name=Laguna Verde, Bolivia|author=[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia. }}

{{Package|image=http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png|url=http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip|name=Swiss Euler Telescope, ESO La Silla Observatory, Chile|author=[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots] }}

{{Package|image=http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png|url=http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip|name=Divinópolis, Brazilia|author=[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]|license=|compat=0.9.x|description=[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira] photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. }}

===Polar regions===
{{Package|image=http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.png|url=http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.zip|name=French-Italian Concordia Station|author=[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc]|license=GPLv2+|compat=0.10.x|description=Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.}}

===Special===
{{Package|image=http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/simple.jpg|url=http://www.stellarium.org/files/landscapes/simple.zip|name=Simple|author=[http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~aw/ Alexander Wolf]|license=Public Domain|compat=0.10.x|description=Simple semi-transparent texture for Stellarium.}}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [[Customising_Landscapes|Stellarium User Guide]], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email to any Stellarium developers and we'll put it on our site.

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north
*The user guide, section 5.7: [[Customising Landscapes]]

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| class="wikitable"
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
|[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
| Windows; may also run on Linux using [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine]
| Shareware/demo
| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No source code.
|-
|[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
|
|-
| Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Image Composite Editor]
| Windows
| Free (costless)
|
|}

==External links==
*[http://stargazerslounge.com/primers-tutorials/122628-tutorial-custom-stellarium-landscapes.html Tutorial: Custom Stellarium landscapes], thread at the Stargazers Lounge forum
*[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/3759113/ Stellarium landscape image of my back porch], thread at the Cloudy Nights forum (discusses using a home-made fish-eye lens from a peep-hole to create a "fisheye" landscape)

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Category:User's Guide

2013-02-20T19:29:18Z

Matthewg42: /* Guides by other authors */

== Official ==

The official version of the Stellarium User Guide was originally published as a PDF file, but keeping it up-to-date was hard, so it was turned into a series of pages on this wiki:
*[[Stellarium User Guide]]

The old versions in PDF are still available for download, but they are becoming increasingly outdated:
*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/ English]
** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.10.2-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.10.2-1.pdf/download Version 0.10.2] ('''the latest release is 0.11.1''')
** Earlier releases: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.9.1-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.9.1-1.pdf 0.9.1] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.8.1-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.8.1-1.pdf 0.8.1] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.7.1-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.7.1-2.pdf 0.7.1]
*[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48857&package_id=188908 French]
** [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/stellarium/fr_stellarium_user_guide-0.7.1-1.pdf Version 0.7.1]

== Works in progress ==
Source files for in-progress translations may be obtained from the [http://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/stellarium/trunk/stellarium_user_guide/ SVN repository]. Some pre-release files may also be downloaded directly from here. These are works in progress, and updated sporadically:
*[http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/ru_stellarium_user_guide-0.8.2-1.pdf Russian in PDF] (for v.0.8.2)
*[http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/es_stellarium_user_guide-0.8.2-1.pdf Spanish in PDF] (for v.0.8.2)
*[http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/it_stellarium_user_guide-0.7.1-1.pdf Italian in PDF] (for v.0.7.1)
*[http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~sigma/stellarium/ Japanese in HTML] (dead link?)

==Guides by other authors==
* '''''A Guide to Using Stellarium''''', by ''Paul Luckas'' — a short guide with lots of illustrations that covers the basics of using Stellarium '''0.10.5'''. It can be downloaded in PDF format from the website of the University of Western Australia's SPICE program: [http://www.spice.wa.edu.au/technology/stellarium How to teach astronomy with Stellarium]
* '''''Краткий путеводитель''''', by ''Alexander Wolf'' — a similar short introduction, but '''in Russian''' and covering Stellarium '''0.10.6'''. It can be downloaded in PDF format from [http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~aw/stellarium/stellarium-0.10.6-short-guide.pdf the author's home page].
* '''''Stellarium Beginner's Guide''''', by Khalid AlAjaji — a guide with lots of illustrations that covers the basics of using Stellarium '''0.11.3'''. It can be read in HTML format from the [https://sites.google.com/site/stellariumuserguide/ this website].
* '''''Manual do Software Stellarium''''' by ''Edson Pedro Cecílio Jr'' in '''Brazilian Portuguese'''. Version 0.10.6 was used to write this guide with a lot of screenshots. You can download it in [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/br_stellarium_user_guide_201301.pdf PDF format here].

==See also==
* [[Screencasts]]

==Pages in this category==
{{category}}
[[Category:Guide]]

Category:User's Guide

2013-02-19T04:54:21Z

Matthewg42: /* Guides by other authors */

== Official ==

The official version of the Stellarium User Guide was originally published as a PDF file, but keeping it up-to-date was hard, so it was turned into a series of pages on this wiki:
*[[Stellarium User Guide]]

The old versions in PDF are still available for download, but they are becoming increasingly outdated:
*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/ English]
** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.10.2-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.10.2-1.pdf/download Version 0.10.2] ('''the latest release is 0.11.1''')
** Earlier releases: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.9.1-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.9.1-1.pdf 0.9.1] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.8.1-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.8.1-1.pdf 0.8.1] [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide/0.7.1-1/stellarium_user_guide-0.7.1-2.pdf 0.7.1]
*[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48857&package_id=188908 French]
** [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/stellarium/fr_stellarium_user_guide-0.7.1-1.pdf Version 0.7.1]

== Works in progress ==
Source files for in-progress translations may be obtained from the [http://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/stellarium/trunk/stellarium_user_guide/ SVN repository]. Some pre-release files may also be downloaded directly from here. These are works in progress, and updated sporadically:
*[http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/ru_stellarium_user_guide-0.8.2-1.pdf Russian in PDF] (for v.0.8.2)
*[http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/es_stellarium_user_guide-0.8.2-1.pdf Spanish in PDF] (for v.0.8.2)
*[http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/it_stellarium_user_guide-0.7.1-1.pdf Italian in PDF] (for v.0.7.1)
*[http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~sigma/stellarium/ Japanese in HTML] (dead link?)

==Guides by other authors==
* '''''A Guide to Using Stellarium''''', by ''Paul Luckas'' — a short guide with lots of illustrations that covers the basics of using Stellarium '''0.10.5'''. It can be downloaded in PDF format from the website of the University of Western Australia's SPICE program: [http://www.spice.wa.edu.au/technology/stellarium How to teach astronomy with Stellarium]
* '''''Краткий путеводитель''''', by ''Alexander Wolf'' — a similar short introduction, but '''in Russian''' and covering Stellarium '''0.10.6'''. It can be downloaded in PDF format from [http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~aw/stellarium/stellarium-0.10.6-short-guide.pdf the author's home page].
* '''''Stellarium Beginner's Guide''''', by Khalid AlAjaji — a guide with lots of illustrations that covers the basics of using Stellarium '''0.11.3'''. It can be read in HTML format from the [https://sites.google.com/site/stellariumuserguide/ this website].
* '''''Manual do Software Stellarium''''' by ''Edson Pedro Cecílio Jr'' in '''Brazilian Portuguese'''. Version 0.10.6 was used to write this guide with a lot of screenshots. You can download it in [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/br_stellarium_user_guide_201301.docx MS Word format here].

==See also==
* [[Screencasts]]

==Pages in this category==
{{category}}
[[Category:Guide]]

Landscapes

2011-12-03T23:49:14Z

Matthewg42: /* Europe */

==How to install landscapes==
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

===Automatic===
If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" button to install landscapes automatically.

===Manual===
If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/wiruna-field.zip] (Wiruna field Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/egarden-new.zip] (Egarden 8 panel Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/neven-new.zip] (Como area Sydney Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_largsbay_thumb.jpg
| ''' Martin Lewicki '''. Panoramic view of Largs Bay in South Australia 8 panel old style landscape. Largs Pier Hotel facade in SSE and Largs Bay Sailing Club due east. Jetty extends to Gulf St Vincent to the west.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_largsbay.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SZYHjlyYobA/TlFXHQoJekI/AAAAAAAAABg/SqDhC5L8kf8/monteurano.jpg
| '''Monte Urano - Italy''': landscape at Monte Urano (43°12′21.46″N 13°40′19.38″E), a nice small country situated in Central Italy in the region of Marche.
[https://hmdihq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4UvjMwLGy10vOeMHzlTyQstVlGNy_2qCfIpbHPOZ6impux4-iVKi2UovFkHTWZUgl37dGH6p8AEZNSWGdxpxbA/monteurano.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip Download].
|-
| http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calave_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland'''. Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calanaisave.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland'''. This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie5.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments. (1.8MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub. (1MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales'''. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png
| '''[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen] - Son & Breugel, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB)
[http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_cambridge_thumb.jpg
| Matt Hickford - '''Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_cambridge.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_grantchester_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. Panorama from Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March. Flat horizon.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/grantchester.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_uvalno_thumb.jpg
| '''Uvalno - Czech Republic'''. A view from a garden in the village of Uvalno, Czech Republic.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_uvalno.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jasperpyramidisland_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.jasperdarksky.org/stellarium Rogier Gruys], Alberta, Canada'''. Pyramid Island dark sky observation site in [http://pc.gc.ca/jasper Jasper National Park], Alberta, Canada - world's largest [http://www.jasperdarksky.org/ Dark Sky Preserve]. This site is only 15 min from the town of Jasper, yet nearly perfectly dark. The panorama was taken just before sunset in October 2011.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jasperpyramidisland.zip Download]

|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|-
| http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png
| '''[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes] - Swiss Euler Telescope, [http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html ESO La Silla Observatory], Chile'''. Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots]
[http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip Download] (8.2 MB, 4096 x 2048 pixels)
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png
| '''[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]''' photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north
*The user guide, section 5.7: [[Customising Landscapes]]

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
|[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
| Windows; Linux (using [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine])
| Shareware/demo
| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
|[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
|
|-
| Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Image Composite Editor]
| Windows
| Free (costless)
|
|}

==External links==
*[http://stargazerslounge.com/primers-tutorials/122628-tutorial-custom-stellarium-landscapes.html Tutorial: Custom Stellarium landscapes], thread at the Stargazers Lounge forum
*[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/3759113/ Stellarium landscape image of my back porch], thread at the Cloudy Nights forum (discusses using a home-made fish-eye lens from a peep-hole to create a "fisheye" landscape)

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2011-10-19T06:13:51Z

Matthewg42: /* North America */

==How to install landscapes==
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

===Automatic===
If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" button to install landscapes automatically.

===Manual===
If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/wiruna-field.zip] (Wiruna field Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/egarden-new.zip] (Egarden 8 panel Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/neven-new.zip] (Como area Sydney Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_largsbay_thumb.jpg
| ''' Martin Lewicki '''. Panoramic view of Largs Bay in South Australia 8 panel old style landscape. Largs Pier Hotel facade in SSE and Largs Bay Sailing Club due east. Jetty extends to Gulf St Vincent to the west.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_largsbay.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SZYHjlyYobA/TlFXHQoJekI/AAAAAAAAABg/SqDhC5L8kf8/monteurano.jpg
| '''Monte Urano - Italy''': landscape at Monte Urano (43°12′21.46″N 13°40′19.38″E), a nice small country situated in Central Italy in the region of Marche.
[https://hmdihq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4UvjMwLGy10vOeMHzlTyQstVlGNy_2qCfIpbHPOZ6impux4-iVKi2UovFkHTWZUgl37dGH6p8AEZNSWGdxpxbA/monteurano.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip Download].
|-
| http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calave_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland'''. Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calanaisave.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland'''. This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie5.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments. (1.8MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub. (1MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales'''. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png
| '''[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen] - Son & Breugel, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB)
[http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_cambridge_thumb.jpg
| Matt Hickford - '''Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_cambridge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. Panorama from Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March. Flat horizon.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_uvalno_thumb.jpg
| '''Uvalno - Czech Republic'''. A view from a garden in the village of Uvalno, Czech Republic.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_uvalno.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jasperpyramidisland_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.jasperdarksky.org/stellarium Rogier Gruys], Alberta, Canada'''. Pyramid Island dark sky observation site in [http://pc.gc.ca/jasper Jasper National Park], Alberta, Canada - world's largest [http://www.jasperdarksky.org/ Dark Sky Preserve]. This site is only 15 min from the town of Jasper, yet nearly perfectly dark. The panorama was taken just before sunset in October 2011.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jasperpyramidisland.zip Download]

|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|-
| http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png
| '''[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes] - Swiss Euler Telescope, [http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html ESO La Silla Observatory], Chile'''. Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots]
[http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip Download] (8.2 MB, 4096 x 2048 pixels)
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png
| '''[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]''' photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north
*The user guide, section 5.7: [[Customising Landscapes]]

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
|[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
| Windows; Linux (using [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine])
| Shareware/demo
| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
|[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
|
|-
| Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Image Composite Editor]
| Windows
| Free (costless)
|
|}

==External links==
*[http://stargazerslounge.com/primers-tutorials/122628-tutorial-custom-stellarium-landscapes.html Tutorial: Custom Stellarium landscapes], thread at the Stargazers Lounge forum
*[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/3759113/ Stellarium landscape image of my back porch], thread at the Cloudy Nights forum (discusses using a home-made fish-eye lens from a peep-hole to create a "fisheye" landscape)

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2011-10-16T18:15:44Z

Matthewg42: /* Europe */

==How to install landscapes==
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

===Automatic===
If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" button to install landscapes automatically.

===Manual===
If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/wiruna-field.zip] (Wiruna field Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/egarden-new.zip] (Egarden 8 panel Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/neven-new.zip] (Como area Sydney Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_largsbay_thumb.jpg
| ''' Martin Lewicki '''. Panoramic view of Largs Bay in South Australia 8 panel old style landscape. Largs Pier Hotel facade in SSE and Largs Bay Sailing Club due east. Jetty extends to Gulf St Vincent to the west.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_largsbay.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SZYHjlyYobA/TlFXHQoJekI/AAAAAAAAABg/SqDhC5L8kf8/monteurano.jpg
| '''Monte Urano - Italy''': landscape at Monte Urano (43°12′21.46″N 13°40′19.38″E), a nice small country situated in Central Italy in the region of Marche.
[https://hmdihq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4UvjMwLGy10vOeMHzlTyQstVlGNy_2qCfIpbHPOZ6impux4-iVKi2UovFkHTWZUgl37dGH6p8AEZNSWGdxpxbA/monteurano.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip Download].
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| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip Download].
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| http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
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| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
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| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calave_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland'''. Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calanaisave.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland'''. This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie5.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments. (1.8MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub. (1MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales'''. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
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| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
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| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
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| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
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| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
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| http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png
| '''[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen] - Son & Breugel, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB)
[http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip Download]
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| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
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| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_cambridge_thumb.jpg
| Matt Hickford - '''Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_cambridge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. Panorama from Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March. Flat horizon.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_uvalno_thumb.jpg
| '''Uvalno - Czech Republic'''. A view from a garden in the village of Uvalno, Czech Republic.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_uvalno.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo_thumbnail.png
| '''Cliff Nieuwenhuis - Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA'''. This landscape was made with photos taken from my yard in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. Construction details are on my [http://www.nieusite.com/landscape.html website].
[http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo.zip Download] '''<-- No longer works.'''
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|-
| http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png
| '''[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes] - Swiss Euler Telescope, [http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html ESO La Silla Observatory], Chile'''. Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots]
[http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip Download] (8.2 MB, 4096 x 2048 pixels)
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png
| '''[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]''' photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north
*The user guide, section 5.7: [[Customising Landscapes]]

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
|[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
| Windows; Linux (using [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine])
| Shareware/demo
| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
|[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
|
|-
| Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Image Composite Editor]
| Windows
| Free (costless)
|
|}

==External links==
*[http://stargazerslounge.com/primers-tutorials/122628-tutorial-custom-stellarium-landscapes.html Tutorial: Custom Stellarium landscapes], thread at the Stargazers Lounge forum
*[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/3759113/ Stellarium landscape image of my back porch], thread at the Cloudy Nights forum (discusses using a home-made fish-eye lens from a peep-hole to create a "fisheye" landscape)

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2011-10-16T12:32:41Z

Matthewg42: /* Europe */

==How to install landscapes==
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

===Automatic===
If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" button to install landscapes automatically.

===Manual===
If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/wiruna-field.zip] (Wiruna field Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/egarden-new.zip] (Egarden 8 panel Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/neven-new.zip] (Como area Sydney Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_largsbay_thumb.jpg
| ''' Martin Lewicki '''. Panoramic view of Largs Bay in South Australia 8 panel old style landscape. Largs Pier Hotel facade in SSE and Largs Bay Sailing Club due east. Jetty extends to Gulf St Vincent to the west.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_largsbay.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SZYHjlyYobA/TlFXHQoJekI/AAAAAAAAABg/SqDhC5L8kf8/monteurano.jpg
| '''Monte Urano - Italy''': landscape at Monte Urano (43°12′21.46″N 13°40′19.38″E), a nice small country situated in Central Italy in the region of Marche.
[https://hmdihq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4UvjMwLGy10vOeMHzlTyQstVlGNy_2qCfIpbHPOZ6impux4-iVKi2UovFkHTWZUgl37dGH6p8AEZNSWGdxpxbA/monteurano.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip Download].
|-
| http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calave_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland'''. Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calanaisave.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland'''. This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie5.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments. (1.8MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub. (1MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales'''. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
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| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
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| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
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| http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png
| '''[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen] - Son & Breugel, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB)
[http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip Download]
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| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
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| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download] '''<-- No longer works.'''
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_cambridge_thumb.jpg
| Matt Hickford - '''Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_cambridge.zip Download]
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| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. Panorama from Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March. Flat horizon.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_uvalno_thumb.jpg
| '''Uvalno - Czech Republic'''. A view from a garden in the village of Uvalno, Czech Republic.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_uvalno.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo_thumbnail.png
| '''Cliff Nieuwenhuis - Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA'''. This landscape was made with photos taken from my yard in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. Construction details are on my [http://www.nieusite.com/landscape.html website].
[http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo.zip Download] '''<-- No longer works.'''
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|-
| http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png
| '''[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes] - Swiss Euler Telescope, [http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html ESO La Silla Observatory], Chile'''. Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots]
[http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip Download] (8.2 MB, 4096 x 2048 pixels)
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png
| '''[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]''' photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north
*The user guide, section 5.7: [[Customising Landscapes]]

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
|[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
| Windows; Linux (using [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine])
| Shareware/demo
| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
|[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
|
|-
| Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Image Composite Editor]
| Windows
| Free (costless)
|
|}

==External links==
*[http://stargazerslounge.com/primers-tutorials/122628-tutorial-custom-stellarium-landscapes.html Tutorial: Custom Stellarium landscapes], thread at the Stargazers Lounge forum
*[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/3759113/ Stellarium landscape image of my back porch], thread at the Cloudy Nights forum (discusses using a home-made fish-eye lens from a peep-hole to create a "fisheye" landscape)

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2011-10-05T18:58:24Z

Matthewg42: /* Europe */

==How to install landscapes==
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

===Automatic===
If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" button to install landscapes automatically.

===Manual===
If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/wiruna-field.zip] (Wiruna field Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/egarden-new.zip] (Egarden 8 panel Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/neven-new.zip] (Como area Sydney Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_largsbay_thumb.jpg
| ''' Martin Lewicki '''. Panoramic view of Largs Bay in South Australia 8 panel old style landscape. Largs Pier Hotel facade in SSE and Largs Bay Sailing Club due east. Jetty extends to Gulf St Vincent to the west.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_largsbay.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SZYHjlyYobA/TlFXHQoJekI/AAAAAAAAABg/SqDhC5L8kf8/monteurano.jpg
| '''Monte Urano - Italy''': landscape at Monte Urano (43°12′21.46″N 13°40′19.38″E), a nice small country situated in Central Italy in the region of Marche.
[https://hmdihq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4UvjMwLGy10vOeMHzlTyQstVlGNy_2qCfIpbHPOZ6impux4-iVKi2UovFkHTWZUgl37dGH6p8AEZNSWGdxpxbA/monteurano.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip Download].
|-
| http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
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| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip Download]
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| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calave_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland'''. Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calanaisave.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland'''. This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie5.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments. (1.8MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub. (1MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales'''. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
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| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
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| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
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| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
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| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
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| http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png
| '''[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen] - Son & Breugel, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB)
[http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip Download]
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| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
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| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
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| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
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| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.zip Download]
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| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. Panorama from Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March. Flat horizon.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
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| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
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| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
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| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_uvalno_thumb.jpg
| '''Uvalno - Czech Republic'''. A view from a garden in the village of Uvalno, Czech Republic.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_uvalno.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
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| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo_thumbnail.png
| '''Cliff Nieuwenhuis - Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA'''. This landscape was made with photos taken from my yard in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. Construction details are on my [http://www.nieusite.com/landscape.html website].
[http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|-
| http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png
| '''[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes] - Swiss Euler Telescope, [http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html ESO La Silla Observatory], Chile'''. Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots]
[http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip Download] (8.2 MB, 4096 x 2048 pixels)
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png
| '''[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]''' photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north
*The user guide, section 5.7: [[Customising Landscapes]]

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
|[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
| Windows; Linux (using [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine])
| Shareware/demo
| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
|[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
|
|-
| Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Image Composite Editor]
| Windows
| Free (costless)
|
|}

==External links==
*[http://stargazerslounge.com/primers-tutorials/122628-tutorial-custom-stellarium-landscapes.html Tutorial: Custom Stellarium landscapes], thread at the Stargazers Lounge forum
*[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/3759113/ Stellarium landscape image of my back porch], thread at the Cloudy Nights forum (discusses using a home-made fish-eye lens from a peep-hole to create a "fisheye" landscape)

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2011-10-04T20:23:36Z

Matthewg42: /* Australasia */

==How to install landscapes==
After you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

===Automatic===
If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the "Add/remove landscapes" button to install landscapes automatically.

===Manual===
If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/wiruna-field.zip] (Wiruna field Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/egarden-new.zip] (Egarden 8 panel Barry's site)
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium/uploads/neven-new.zip] (Como area Sydney Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all, including from Antarctica !
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_largsbay_thumb.jpg
| ''' Martin Lewicki '''. Panoramic view of Largs Bay in South Australia 8 panel old style landscape. Largs Pier Hotel facade in SSE and Largs Bay Sailing Club due east. Jetty extends to Gulf St Vincent to the west.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_largsbay.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SZYHjlyYobA/TlFXHQoJekI/AAAAAAAAABg/SqDhC5L8kf8/monteurano.jpg
| '''Monte Urano - Italy''': landscape at Monte Urano (43°12′21.46″N 13°40′19.38″E), a nice small country situated in Central Italy in the region of Marche.
[https://hmdihq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4UvjMwLGy10vOeMHzlTyQstVlGNy_2qCfIpbHPOZ6impux4-iVKi2UovFkHTWZUgl37dGH6p8AEZNSWGdxpxbA/monteurano.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip Download].
|-
| http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calave_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland'''. Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calanaisave.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland'''. This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie5.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments. (1.8MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub. (1MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
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| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales'''. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
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| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
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| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
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| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
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| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
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| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
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| http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png
| '''[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen] - Son & Breugel, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB)
[http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip Download]
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| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
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| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
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| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
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| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
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| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.zip Download]
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| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. Panorama from Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March. Flat horizon.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
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| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
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| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wikiimg/landscapes/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo_thumbnail.png
| '''Cliff Nieuwenhuis - Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA'''. This landscape was made with photos taken from my yard in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. Construction details are on my [http://www.nieusite.com/landscape.html website].
[http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|-
| http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png
| '''[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes] - Swiss Euler Telescope, [http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html ESO La Silla Observatory], Chile'''. Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots]
[http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip Download] (8.2 MB, 4096 x 2048 pixels)
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png
| '''[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira]''' photographed this panorama in the Brazilian city of Divinópolis in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/divers/stellarium/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north
*The user guide, section 5.7: [[Customising Landscapes]]

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
|[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
| Windows; Linux (using [http://www.winehq.org/ Wine])
| Shareware/demo
| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
|[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; Windows
| Free/open source (GNU GPL)
|
|-
| Microsoft's [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ Image Composite Editor]
| Windows
| Free (costless)
|
|}

==External links==
*[http://stargazerslounge.com/primers-tutorials/122628-tutorial-custom-stellarium-landscapes.html Tutorial: Custom Stellarium landscapes], thread at the Stargazers Lounge forum
*[http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Number/3759113/ Stellarium landscape image of my back porch], thread at the Cloudy Nights forum (discusses using a home-made fish-eye lens from a peep-hole to create a "fisheye" landscape)

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2011-03-06T09:31:57Z

Matthewg42: /* South America */

==How to install landscapes==
When you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape on this page, follow this procedure to install it in Stellarium:
#Browse to your [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system. (eg. in Windows Vista/7 enter %appdata%\stellarium in Explorer's location bar )
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory.
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

Since version 0.10.5 Stellarium has problems in correctly loading old style landscapes (multi panel) if they are not 8 or 16 panel panoramas. Some old 4,7,9 qnd 10 side panoramas converted into 8 ides can be found here
*[http://sarcasmogerdes.dyndns.org/stellarium] (Barry's site)

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for six of the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all apart from Antarctica.
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/Port_of_La_Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/laguardia/laguardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - Castle of Castro Laboreiro 13th Century, Melgaço, Portugal [http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/Castle_of_Castro_Laboreiro.kmz Kmz file]'''. Castro Laboreiro is a village in Melgaço, in the NW. of Portugal. This landscape was taken on the 15/08/2010.
[http://perso.wanadoo.es/arias_llego/stellarium/castrolaboreiro/castrolaboreiro.zip Download].
|-
| http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Frantoio Rodiano, Italy'''. The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_rodiano.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. (2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier. (2.2MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calave_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland'''. Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/calanaisave.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie_tb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland'''. This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/machrie5.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments. (1.8MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub. (1MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales'''. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church. (2.5MB)
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png
| '''[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen] - Son & Breugel, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB)
[http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/stellarium.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[ftp://ftp2.obs-sirene.com/obssirene/Stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. Panorama from the grassy roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.jpg
| [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/ Matt Hickford] - '''Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. Panorama from Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March. Flat horizon.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo_thumbnail.png
| '''Cliff Nieuwenhuis - Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA'''. This landscape was made with photos taken from my yard in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. Construction details are on my [http://www.nieusite.com/landscape.html website].
[http://www.nieusite.com/baraboo.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|-
| http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla_thumb.png
| '''[http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/ Malte Tewes] - Swiss Euler Telescope, [http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/lasilla.html ESO La Silla Observatory], Chile'''. Euler is the nearby telescope that can be seen in the west. It is operated by the University of Geneva, and its main duty is the quest of extrasolar planets. The New Technology Telescope (NTT) shows up just behind Euler's control room, Tarot is in due south, and finally the venerable ESO 3.6 meter telescope sits on its hill in the southeast. The panorama was taken on September 3, 2010, at about 7:25 local time, a wonderful sunrise after a snowy night. [http://obswww.unige.ch/~tewes/stellarium_landscapes/ Screenshots]
[http://documents.epfl.ch/users/m/mt/mtewes/www/permanent/euler_la_silla.zip Download] (8.2 MB, 4096 x 2048 pixels)
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/images/landscape_braziland_thumb.png
| '''[http://alquimiapopular.wordpress.com/psicologo/ Wanderson Nunes Ferreira''' photographed this panorama in March 2011 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Not sure exactly where it is (no location information provided), other than "Brazil".
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_braziland.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
||[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
|| win32; Linux (using wine)
|| Shareware/demo
|| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
||[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
|| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
||
|}

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

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== Sysop? ==

Any chances of someone giving me sysop status? I can clean the spam when I feel like doing some dull and repetitive task. :) --[[User:Daggerstab|Daggerstab]] 09:15, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

== ReCaptcha ==

I'm thinking of installing the ReCaptcha extension to verify registrations. It requires registering an account in Google. Who should register an account, you or me?

Also, several people hang in the IRC channel every day, you can drop by.--[[User:Daggerstab|Daggerstab]] 10:22, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Go ahead and register one. Please GPG encrypt the account details and send them to me. You can find my public key on any public keyserver which gpg uploads to http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/matthewg42.asc

I was in the IRC channel today, but kept missing people. I've got a crazy few days coming up, so I probably won't be around much. [[User:Matthewg42|Matthewg42]] 06:33, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist

2011-02-08T06:20:56Z

Matthewg42:

# <pre>
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# effect immediately. Please do not use this list against spam that can
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#Specific to Stellarium Wiki
natoli\.ru
ck-wholesale\.com
resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
store\.ru
pills\.ru
drug.*\.ru
xsale\.com
ugg.*fashion
-ugg-
blogleaf\.com
palungjit\.com
cheapuggs
rotta\.ru
\.poker.*\.eu
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2011-02-05T09:24:34Z

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#Specific to Stellarium Wiki
natoli\.ru
ck-wholesale\.com
resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
store\.ru
pills\.ru
drug.*\.ru
xsale\.com
ugg.*fashion
-ugg-
blogleaf\.com
palungjit\.com
cheapuggs
rotta\.ru
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2011-01-20T01:00:26Z

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natoli\.ru
ck-wholesale\.com
resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
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wellbeing\.ru
store\.ru
pills\.ru
drug.*\.ru
xsale\.com
ugg.*fashion
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palungjit\.com
cheapuggs
rotta\.ru
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2011-01-15T23:56:26Z

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resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
store\.ru
pills\.ru
drug.*\.ru
xsale\.com
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2011-01-09T02:02:55Z

Matthewg42:

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resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
store\.ru
pills\.ru
drug.*\.ru
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2011-01-07T23:03:20Z

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resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
store\.ru
pills\.ru
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2011-01-06T10:33:03Z

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resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
store\.ru
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MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist

2011-01-03T14:22:31Z

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natoli\.ru
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resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
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2010-12-30T08:18:05Z

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natoli\.ru
ck-wholesale\.com
resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
store\.ru
pills\.ru
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2010-12-28T16:16:59Z

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ck-wholesale\.com
resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
ameritrustshield
wellbeing\.ru
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pills\.ru
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2010-12-23T13:13:28Z

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2010-12-23T13:12:38Z

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natoli\.ru
ck-wholesale\.com
resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
health.*\.ru
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2010-12-21T17:35:33Z

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natoli\.ru
ck-wholesale\.com
resumewritingservice\.biz
tablets.*\.ru
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2010-12-21T11:59:48Z

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Education

2010-12-13T02:24:14Z

Matthewg42: Reverted edits by Trevor75 (talk) to last revision by Didgeweb

This page lists education resources for everyone who is teaching with Stellarium. Please do not hesitate to add your own, or contact us to share your material with fellow teachers across the world.

==Notes==
===Displaying complex characters in Stellarium===
In some Asian countries, one needs to display other characters than the Latin font in Stellarium.
Here are some suggestions and experiences, especially in traditional Chinese.

如何在Stellarium中呈現中文訊息(也就是所謂的中文化介面), 下列的連結整理了一些建議與經驗。

Stellariumで日本語フォントを使いたい場合は、以下のリンクを参考にしてください。

*[[Display complex characters in Stellarium]]
*[[如何在Stellarium中正確顯示中文]]
*[[Stellariumで日本語を表示するには]]

=Lesson Material=
==Exercises in the user's guide==
The [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/stellarium/stellarium_user_guide-0.9.1-1.pdf Stellarium User Guide] contains a short introduction to many astronomical concepts. The intention is to provide a description which can be used as a basis for describing Stellarium's features, but may also be of more general interest. There also exist some exercises in the guide. Anyone who wishes to include these materials as part of a class is very welcome. If you write additional exercises or reference material, please consider contributing them to the guide.

==Digitalis Education Open Astronomy Curricula==
Co-developer of the Stellarium software, [http://www.digitaliseducation.com Digitalis Education], has prepared a series of lesson plans for teaching astronomy. They are perfect for use with a Digitarium planetarium projector, but they can easily be adjusted to suit your own situation. They address the US National Science Education Standards.

This is a list of the lessons, which you can [http://digitaliseducation.com/curricula.html download on their website]
===Kindergarten through second grade===
*'''Moving Right Along''' is an introduction to Earth's rotation and revolution and how those movements affect our view of the sky.
*'''Sky Stories''' introduces students to the pictures and stories of some Greco-Roman constellations, as well as reasons why constellations were created.
*'''What's Up?''' explores what we can see in the sky (stars, planets, the moon) and differences between those objects.
===Grades 3-5===
*'''Planets''' explores the differences between stars and planets, how we can recognize a planet in the night sky, and planetary motion (prograde and retrograde).
*'''Star Quest''' introduces some Greco-Roman constellations; students also learn to use star maps to find the pictures in the sky.
*'''StellarLunar''' explores stars, constellations, and the phases of the moon. Students learn what causes the phases and the name of each phase as they model the earth, moon, and sun system.
*'''Moons of the Solar System''' explores differences between planets and moons, and introduces students to major moons of the solar system.
===Grades 6-8===
*'''Stellar Navigation''' , written for the northern hemisphere, introduces students to the idea of navigating by the stars. Students learn to use stars to determine latitude and compass points, and observe how our location on Earth affects our view of the sky.
*'''Solstice and Equinox''' explores the relevance of solstices and equinoxes, including how they relate to the seasons we experience.
*'''World in Motion''' explores what is in motion in our solar system, that Earth's movements give us the day and the year, that gravity keeps planets in orbit around the sun and the moon in orbit around the earth, how to recognize a planet in the night sky, and prograde and retrograde planetary motion.
*Mars (RTF) explores how to recognize the Red Planet in the sky, what makes Mars interesting, and past and future exploration missions to this planet.
===Grades 9-12===
*'''Astrology: Fact or Fiction''' debunks astrology, explores the differences between science and pseudoscience, introduces students to the ecliptic and precession, and explains how and why the zodiac signs were created.
*'''How do we Know?''' explores how we know what we know about our universe by looking at developments in three major eras: Greco-Roman times, the 17th century, and the late 19th century to today.
*'''Hubble Space Telescope''' explores why the Hubble Space Telescope is in space, as well as several discoveries it has made.
===Supplemental Documents===
*'''Selected Hubble Image Descriptions''' describes images included on our Lesson Slides CD.
*'''The Ptolemaic System'''
*'''Background Resources'''

==Resources from the EU funded AIDA project==
On this page you will find teaching material used to teach in Italian classrooms: http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiAIDA/bin/view/EuroVOAIDA/ListOfProducts
English version is available too.

Compilation on Linux

2010-12-05T21:38:05Z

Matthewg42:

Each time Stellarium is released, the sourcecode is released in Sourceforge's packaging system. Building sourcecode that is released in this way should give you a working copy of Stellarium which is functionally identical to the binaries for that release.

It is also possible to get the "in development" sourcecode using Bazaar. This may contain new features which have been implemented since the last release of Stellarium, so it's often more fun. ''Warning:'' Bazaar versions of the Stellarium sourcecode are work in progress, and as such may produce an unstable program, may not work at all, or may not even compile.

If you're new to the command line, you might also find [[Compilation on Linux Newbie|this page]] interesting.

==Preparation==

First make sure all [[Build Dependencies|build dependencies]] are installed on your system.

We now use CMake instead of automake/autoconf. A common problem is that you don't have a recent enough version of CMake. Make sure you have the version specified in the [[Build Dependencies|build dependencies]] page (the error which is seen if you have an old version of CMake is something to do with curl).

If you have both QT version 4 development tools and QT version 3 development tools installed on your system, make sure the commands for moc, uic and so on point at the QT4 versions. Ubuntu/Debian users might want to use [http://porpoisehead.net/misc/qt_alt this script] to swap between them.

Extract the tarball containing the source code. Open a terminal and cd to the directory where you wish to build Stellarium. Save the tarball to that directory and do this command in a terminal (if you prefer, you might use arK or some other graphical archive tool):
$ tar zxf stellarium-0.10.6.tar.gz
You should now have a directory stellarium-0.10.6 with the source code in it.

===Building===
*In a terminal and change into the source directory:
cd stellarium-0.10.6
*Make the build directory and change into it
mkdir -p builds/unix
cd builds/unix
*Configure the build using CMake:
cmake ../..
By default this will configure Stellarium to be installed in the /usr/local area. If you want another location, use this option to cmake, e.g.:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/stellarium ../..
*Run make
make
*Install the program (as root if necessary)
make install

That's it. You should now have Stellarium built and installed. Build takes about five minutes on a P4 1.7Ghz/512 Mb.

==Bazaar (development) version==
First, make sure you have all the [[Build Dependencies]] installed.
===Getting the sourcecode===
Execute these commands:
<nowiki>bzr checkout lp:stellarium</nowiki>
or if you do not intend to change any source code (quicker):
<nowiki>bzr checkout --lightweight lp:stellarium</nowiki>

This will create the directory '''stellarium''' which contains the source code.

===Building the source===
*Change into the stellarium directory which was created by the bzr command above
cd stellarium
*Make a builds/unix directory and change into it:
mkdir -p builds/unix
cd builds/unix
By default this will configure Stellarium to be installed in the /usr/local/ area. If this is OK, run CMake like this:
cmake ../..
or, if you would prefer to specify an alternative installation prefix, select it like this
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/mylocation/ ../..
*Now build using make:
make
*To run Stellarium from the source tree, change back to the root of the source tree, and call the binary like this:
cd ../..
builds/unix/src/stellarium
*If you want to run from the stellarium folder without using the terminal copy the stellarium binary from builds/unix/src to the stellarium folder. Then a click on the binary will start stellarium.
*If you want to install the program, from the builds/unix directory enter this command (as root if necessary):
make install

===Updating BZR===
If you have previously built the BZR code, but want to see what changes have been made since you did that, just cd into the stellarium directory and use the command:
bzr up
This will download just the changes which were made since you last retrieved files from the repository. Often, all that will be required is to build from the make stage, but if there are new files you will need to build from the CMake stage.

If you modify any files, bazaar will attempt to merge new updates with your changed files. This can lead to build problems, and you may want to ''revert'' your changes before updating. To revert such ''local edits'', from the '''stellarium''' directory, do this before the update:
bzr status
And for all files which are listed under ''modified:'', do
bzr revert filename filesname2 ...

===Enabling Sound Support===
Stellarium's sound support is a compile time option. To use sound in Stellarium you need to have a version of QT which supports the Phonon audio system. You also need a recent version of CMake.

Sound support is controlled by the CMake option ENABLE_SOUND. You can change this setting using ccmake, by editing the CMakeCache.txt file, or by supplying the -DENABLE_SOUND=1 option when you first run CMake.

NOTE: In Ubuntu 9.10 you should install the libqt4-phonon-dev package, but NOT the libphonon-dev package.

===Current Build Issues===
Note that the development code is a work in progress, and as such, please don't expect it to build straight off the bat. Often it will be fine, but sometimes the build will be broken.

If the build seems to be broken for extended periods, try a thorough clean of the build directory (i.e. remove builds/unix), and start from the beginning. Check there are no new dependencies which you are missing. If you still have trouble, post to the forums or stellarium-pubdevel mailing list.

2009-03-10: CMake's detection of Phonon for audio support is not working properly right now. It is necessary to hack up the CMakeLists.txt file to gt it working. I'm working on it. -Matthew
[[Category: Linux]]

Landscapes

2010-07-13T21:47:47Z

Matthewg42: Undo revision 7534 by Special:Contributions/Rebeca123 (User talk:Rebeca123)

==How to install landscapes==
When you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape on this page, follow this procedure to install it in Stellarium:
#Determine the [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system.
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory.
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for six of the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all apart from Antarctica.
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
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| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Port%20of%20La%20Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/la%20guardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://www.cestomano.com/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, North Wales'''. This ruined Cistercian abbey dates to 1200 but may be the site of a much earlier Dark Age settlement with a very early Christian church.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/vallecrucis.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/oudmeer_sample.png
| '''[http://www.didgeweb.com/ Roland Mathijssen] - Son & Breugel, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the Oude Meer (Old Lake) in the Sonse Heide in Son (close to Eindhoven). (file is 5.4 MB)
[http://www.didgeweb.com/stellarium/son_oudmeer.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/stellarium.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[ftp://ftp2.obs-sirene.com/obssirene/Stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken on the roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March 2009.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.tar Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken in Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March 2009. The picture was taken with the sun setting in the west.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.tar Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
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| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
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| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
||[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
|| win32; Linux (using wine)
|| Shareware/demo
|| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
||[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
|| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
||
|}

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Star Catalogues

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In Stellarium version 0.9.0, star catalogues are split into 9 files, which contain stars of varying brightness. These files can be found in the ''<installation directory>/stars/default/''. Only the smaller four of these files come with Stellarium in the main package to keep the size manageable.

About 99% of all these stars come from the NOMAD catalog (Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset version 1, by USNO). The rest (brighter ones) from Tycho2 and Hipparcos. Please see the stellarium README file for the conditions, under which you may redistribute data files originating from NOMAD.

Here is a list of all available catalogues. The ''RAM needed'' column applies for the case of ordinary catalog loading at startup, and is an estimate. (MNG managed to load file 7 with 512 M ram, but only just. YMMV). For mmap loading system memory is not a limit any more, see next section.

<br>

{| cellpadding=4 border=1
|''File name'' || ''Star Count'' || ''Magnitude Range'' || ''File Size'' || ''RAM needed'' || ''Availability''
|-
|stars_0_0v0_1.cat || 5,013 || m < 6.0 || 138K || 256M || In default package
|-
|stars_1_0v0_1.cat || 21,999 || 6.0 <= m < 7.5 || 602K || 256M || In default package
|-
|stars_2_0v0_1.cat || 151,516 || 7.5 <= m < 9.0 || 4.1M || 256M || In default package
|-
|stars_3_1v0_0.cat || 434,064 || 9.0 <= m < 10.5 || 4.2M || 256M || In default package
|-
|stars_4_1v0_0.cat || 1,725,497 || 10.5 <= m < 12.0 || 17M || 512M || Separate download
|-
|stars_5_2v0_0.cat || 7,669,011 || 12.0 <= m < 13.5 || 44M || 512M || Separate download
|-
|stars_6_2v0_0.cat || 26,615,233 || 13.5 <= m < 15.0 || 153M || 512M || Separate download
|-
|stars_7_2v0_0.cat || 57,826,266 || 15.0 <= m < 16.5 || 333M || 512M (just!) || Separate download
|-
|stars_8_2v0_0.cat || 116,923,084 || 16.5 <= m < 18.0 || 674M ||1024M? || Separate download
|}

<br>

== How to add catalogs ==

=== 0.10.1 ===

Stellarium 0.10.1 will have an automatic download feature built into the program. To use it, hit [F2] or click on the Configuration button on the left panel. Click on the Tools tab. At the bottom of the dialog, a box called "Star catalog updates" should say "Checking for new star catalogs". After a moment, a button labeled "Get star catalog x of y" should appear. Click on this button to download the first catalog. Once the download completes, the button will appear again if there are more catalogs available. Keep clicking on this button to download all extra catalogs.

Note that you can still manually edit stars.ini, as in previous versions.

Note: starting stellarium with:

$ stellarium

won't do (the program won't be able to write the downloaded files to their directories).

$ sudo stellarium

should be used instead of the former.

=== 0.9.0 - 0.10.0 ===

To try out the large catalogue files download them from [https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48857&package_id=233730 here], and put then in the ''stars/default'' sub-directory of the [[Installation Data Directory]].

NOTE: when downloading from this page, '''do not''' right-click and save as - '''left click'''. These are not direct download links - they are links to the list of download mirrors. Left click on them, and wait for your download to start.

For using stars_7_2v0_0.cat I recommend 1GB of RAM, and for stars_8_2v0_0.cat at lease 1.5GB.
In version 0.9.0 the catalogs are just loaded into RAM, and if you do not have enough of it, swapping will start. Add up the star catalog sizes, compare with your amount of RAM, and your common sense will tell you how many files you can load. Yours, Johannes

== Memory-mapped loading ==

Since version 0.9.1 you can instruct your computer to load all the stars into main memory not at startup, but to load groups of stars when they are displayed for the first time. This is done using the operating systems mmap function, hence the name "mmap loading". Using this technique you can use all of the star catalogs even if you have very little RAM. Also the initial startup time is greatly decreased. The drawback is that your computer loads the stars during normal program operation, when they are used for the first time. Therefore the scrolling and zooming will not be so smooth as when you load all catalogs at startup in advance.

=== 0.10.1 ===

In config.ini, under the [stars] heading, set the key "max_memory" to the maximum amount of memory, in megabytes, to use to load star catalogs directly (the old way). Any catalogs that would push the total memory used over that value will be memory mapped. If unset, the value defaults to 128.

=== 0.9.1 and 0.10.0 ===

For each catalog file that you want to use, you can decide if you want to load it at startup or using mmap by prefixing the catalog name with "mmap:" in stars.ini:

[stars]
cat_file_name_00 = stars_0_0v0_1.cat
cat_file_name_01 = stars_1_0v0_1.cat
cat_file_name_02 = stars_2_0v0_1.cat
cat_file_name_03 = stars_3_1v0_0.cat
cat_file_name_04 = stars_4_1v0_0.cat
#you can use mmap loading, if you do not want to load all stars
#immediately into RAM:
cat_file_name_05 = mmap:stars_5_2v0_0.cat
cat_file_name_06 = mmap:stars_6_2v0_0.cat
cat_file_name_07 = mmap:stars_7_2v0_0.cat
cat_file_name_08 = mmap:stars_8_2v0_0.cat
cat_hip_sp_file_name = stars_hip_sp_0v0_0.cat
cat_hip_cids_file_name = stars_hip_cids_0v0_0.cat

In this example mmap loading is configured for stars_5,...,stars_8 only.

Caveat: when using mmap loading, you must use catalog files that match your computers hardware architecture and the compiler used for building stellarium. The ordinary .cat files can be used with little endian computers and gcc: this applies to all PC (i368 and x86_64 architectures) and the newer Intel macs. Nigel Kerr has made a program for converting .cat files into .bcat files, which can be used with big endian computers and gcc (primarily for the older macs with PPC architecture). All others must use my program ConvertCatToNative.C (in the util directory) for converting .cat (or .bcat) files into a native format appropriate for their architecture and compiler.

== Errata ==
Prior to version 0.9.1 the files stars_3_1v0_0.cat and stars_5_2v0_0.cat were falsely called stars_3_0v0_0.cat and stars_5_1v0_0.cat. Now this misnaming is fixed. The contents of the files is unchanged, just the names have been fixed in order to reflect the contents, which is stars of type 1 and of type 2, respectively. All you have to do is make sure your file stars.ini lists the names of your star catalog files,
no matter whether you use the new names or the old ones.

[[Category:Stars]][[Category:Customization]]

Bzr checkout

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Bazaar (BZR) is a distributed source code control system system. It lets us keep track of changes to the Stellarium code base, merge changes from different developers and revert back to old version of files if necessary.

If you want to see what the current development version of Stellarium is like, you can get the "work in progress" version of the source code from the Stellarium Bazaar repository at Launchpad. Source code can be accessed by anyone. Because Bazaar is a distributed revision control system, anyone can maintain their own branch of the code, although only developers can commit into the official branch on the Launchpad servers.

For more detailed information about Bazaar see the [http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/ Bazaar website].

'''Important Note:''' The development version of Stellarium is a work in progress. It may be that at the time you download it, the sourcecode does not function as expected, and might not even compile. Please don't flood the forums and bug report areas with build problems for the development version of Stellarium. If there is a build problem, your best bet is to try to figure out the problem yourself from the error messages your compiler spits out. Non-developers will have a tough time with this, so their best bet might be to wait a week or two and check out the code again.

==What you need==
To get the development code, you will need to [http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Download download Bazaar]. Once you've installed Bazaar, have a look at the [http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Documentation documentation] to understand better how to use it.

==Checking out Stellarium sourcecode==

===Command Line Bazaar client===
It’s easy-peasy:
# Open a termainal / console / whatever for your OS, and change directory to where you want the code to go.
# Execute the following command:
<nowiki>bzr co lp:stellarium</nowiki>

This operation takes a while.

That’s it — you should now have a new directory, '''stellarium''' which contains the source code. If you’re a newbie, see the <code>INSTALL</code> file in that directory, or consult [[Compilation on Linux]] to find out how to build the code.

Svn checkout

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Matthewg42:

'''Note: On 2010-06-17 Stellarium switched from Subversion to Bazaar located on the Launchpad servers. You probably want to look at [[Bzr checkout|this page]] instead if you want to check out current development code.'''

'''Between 2006-08-27 and 2010-06-17, Stellarium used Subversion on the sourceforge site for it's revision control system. All Subversion revisions were imported into Bazaar.'''

'''Before 2006-08-27, Stellarium used CVS on the sourceforge site for it's revision control system. Older code is still available via [[Cvs checkout|CVS]].'''

Subversion (SVN) is a system that provides a centralised storage system for files - a ''repository''. Subversion allows users from multiple locations to download (check out) files from the repository, modify them, and upload the changes (commit). Subversion keeps track of all the changes that have ever been made to a file, so it's possible to go back to an old version if required, and to log how files have changed over time.

Stellarium uses Subversion to manage the source code for the project.

If you want to see what the current development version of Stellarium is like, you can get the "work in progress" version of the source code from the Stellarium Subversion repository at Sourceforge. Source code can be accessed by anyone, although only developers can commit changes back into Subversion.

For more detailed information about Subversion see the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(software) Wikipedia Subversion article].

'''Important Note:''' The development version of Stellarium is a work in progress. It may be that at the time you download it, the sourcecode does not function as expected, and might not even compile. Please don't flood the forums and bug report areas with build problems for the Subversion version of Stellarium. If there is a build problem, your best bet is to try to figure out the problem yourself from the error messages your compiler spits out. Non-developers will have a tough time with this, so their best bet might be to wait a week or two and check out the code again.

==What you need==
To fetch files from a Subversion repository, you need a piece of software called a ''Subversion client''. There are many Subversion clients available:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1 width=80%
| '''Name''' || '''Operating system''' || '''Notes'''
|-
||svn||Unix; Linux; Mac; Windows (via cygwin)||This is the command-line Subversion client.
|-
||kdesvn||Linux/KDE||Graphical Subversion client.
|-
||Tortoise SVN||Windows||Integrates with Explorer. Looks nice and easy to use from the screenshots. See [http://tortoisesvn.sourceforge.net/ the website] for more info.
|-
| colspan="3" |Please add more if you know some nice ones. Free/Open Source implementation preferred!
|}

==Subversion tutorials==
Subveresion does quite a lot of stuff other than allowing downloading of files. If you're interested in using Subversion as a developer, you might find one of these tutorials useful:
*[http://www.germane-software.com/~ser/R_n_R/subversion.html A Novices Tutorial on Subversion] by Sean Russell
*[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ Version Control with Subversion] (free online book)
*(add more please!)

==Checking out Stellarium sourcecode==
===Command Line Subversion client===
It’s easy-peasy:
# Open a termainal / console / whatever for your OS, and change directory to where you want the code to go.
# Execute the following command:
<nowiki>svn co https://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stellarium/trunk/stellarium stellarium</nowiki>

That’s it — you should now have a new directory, '''stellarium''' which contains the source code. If you’re a newbie, see the <code>INSTALL</code> file in that directory, or consult [[Compilation on Linux]] to find out how to build the code.

===Tortoise SVN===
It's also easy-peasy:
* Create a directory where you want to put the source.
* Now right click on the directory and select "SVN Checkout..."
* In the "URL of repository:" text box put in:
<nowiki>https://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stellarium/trunk/stellarium</nowiki>

That's it - you should now have all source files in your dierctory. If you're a newbie, see the INSTALL file in that directory, or consult [[Compilation_on_Linux]] to find out how to build the code.

====Absolute beginners' guide to TortoiseSVN====
*Open the TortoiseSVN website, http://tortoisesvn.net/
*Click on the "Download" link in the menu at the top of the page
*Scroll down to “Download Application”
*Click on the installer link (32bit)
*The SourceForge.net download page will open. Download the installer and save it to your computer.
*Run this installation file to install TortoiseSVN
*When complete restart the computer
*Create a folder on your hard disk for the source code to reside (Stellarium-svn)
*Right-click on this folder and select “SVN Checkout...” from the menu.
*A window will come up. Enter in the URL window
*:<pre><nowiki>https://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stellarium/trunk/stellarium</nowiki></pre>
*:and in the checkout directory the folder you created for it.
*Click OK.
*The file will download (about 38 MB at the moment). Expanded size 81MB.

Help:Contents

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Getting started with wiki-editing might seem complicated at first, but you'll soon see how easy it is.

*[[Simple wiki editing tips]] - the page to go if you want to get started immediately.
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents Mediawiki help pages] - exhaustive help pages about using MediaWiki, the software that runs the Stellarium wiki.

[[category:Guide]]

Deutsch

2010-06-03T23:00:40Z

Matthewg42:

==Willkommen==

Willkommen auf dem ''Stellarium-Wiki'', einer Wissensseite über das, für den Computer frei verfügbare, Planetarium, gennannt ''Stellarium''. Dieses Wiki erlaubt es Benutzern, gemeinsam eine Wissensbasis über ''Stellarium'' aufzubauen: Falls Sie etwas beizutragen haben sollten, registrieren Sie sich bitte, und bearbeiten Sie dann die Seiten.

...

[[Main Page|Hauptseite]] {{en}}

Plugins

2010-06-03T22:20:49Z

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The following plugins are included in Stellarium version 0.10.3 and later:
*[[AngleMeasure plugin|Angle Measure]] - a tool for measuring the angular distance between two points
*[[CompassMarks plugin|Compass Marks]] - add marks for compass bearings along the horizon
*[[Ocular plugin|Oculars]] - simulate the view through various telescope eyepeices
*[[Telescope Control plug-in|Telescope Control]] - allows Stellarium to control a computerized telescope
*[[TextUserInterface plugin|Text User Interface]] - re-implements the old TUI (useful for planetarium users)
*[[Satellites plugin|Satellites]] - calculates and renders Satellites in Earth orbit from NORAD/TLE data (hello ISS!)

Some other plug-ins exist:
*[[LogBook plugin|LogBook]] - allows you to record observation notes, and track your observation sessions
*[http://archive.eso.org/cms/tools-documentation/visual-archive-browser VirGO] - The ESO-sponsored archive browsing and visualization tool

==Enabling plugins==
To enable a plugin:
#open the '''Configuration dialog''' (press F2 or use the left tool bar button)
#Select the '''Plugins''' tab
#Select the plugin you want to enable from the list
#Check the '''Load at startup''' option
#Restart Stellarium

If the plugin has configuration options, the '''configuration''' button will be enabled when the plugin is loaded.

http://stellarium.org/wikiimg/sat_howto_01.jpg

== See also ==
*[[Plugin Development]]

[[Category:Plugins]]

Landscapes

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==How to install landscapes==
When you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape on this page, follow this procedure to install it in Stellarium:
#Determine the [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system.
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory.
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for six of the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all apart from Antarctica.
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Port%20of%20La%20Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/la%20guardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/stellarium.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[ftp://ftp2.obs-sirene.com/obssirene/Stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken on the roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March 2009.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.tar Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken in Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March 2009. The picture was taken with the sun setting in the west.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.tar Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
||[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
|| win32; Linux (using wine)
|| Shareware/demo
|| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
||[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
|| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
||
|}

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Compilation on Linux

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Each time Stellarium is released, the sourcecode is released in Sourceforge's packaging system. Building sourcecode that is released in this way should give you a working copy of Stellarium which is functionally identical to the binaries for that release.

It is also possible to get the "in development" sourcecode using Subversion. This may contain new features which have been implemented since the last release of Stellarium, so it's often more fun. ''Warning:'' Subversion versions of the Stellarium sourcecode are work in progress, and as such may produce an unstable program, may not work at all, or may not even compile.

If you're new to the command line, you might also find [[Compilation on Linux Newbie|this page]] interesting.

==Preparation==

First make sure all [[Build Dependencies|build dependencies]] are installed on your system.

We now use CMake instead of automake/autoconf. A common problem is that you don't have a recent enough version of CMake. Make sure you have the version specified in the [[Build Dependencies|build dependencies]] page (the error which is seen if you have an old version of CMake is something to do with curl).

If you have both QT version 4 development tools and QT version 3 development tools installed on your system, make sure the commands for moc, uic and so on point at the QT4 versions. Ubuntu/Debian users might want to use [http://porpoisehead.net/misc/qt_alt this script] to swap between them.

Extract the tarball containing the source code. Open a terminal and cd to the directory where you wish to build Stellarium. Save the tarball to that directory and do this command in a terminal (if you prefer, you might use arK or some other graphical archive tool):
$ tar zxf stellarium-0.10.2.tar.gz
You should now have a directory stellarium-0.10.2 with the source code in it.

===Building===
*In a terminal and change into the source directory:
cd stellarium-0.10.2
*Make the build directory and change into it
mkdir -p builds/unix
cd builds/unix
*Configure the build using CMake:
cmake ../..
By default this will configure Stellarium to be installed in the /usr/local area. If you want another location, use this option to cmake, e.g.:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/stellarium ../..
*Run make
make
*Install the program (as root if necessary)
make install

That's it. You should now have Stellarium built and installed. Build takes about five minutes on a P4 1.7Ghz/512 Mb.

==Subversion (development) version==
First, make sure you have all the [[Build Dependencies]] installed.
===Getting the sourcecode===
Execute these commands:
<nowiki>svn co https://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/stellarium/trunk/stellarium stellarium</nowiki>

This will create the directory '''stellarium''' which contains the source code.

===Building the source===
*Change into the stellarium directory which was created by the svn command above
cd stellarium
*Make a builds/unix directory and change into it:
mkdir -p builds/unix
cd builds/unix
By default this will configure Stellarium to be installed in the /usr/local/ area. If this is OK, run CMake like this:
cmake ../..
or, if you would prefer to specify an alternative installation prefix, select it like this
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/mylocation/ ../..
*Now build using make:
make
*To run Stellarium from the source tree, change back to the root of the source tree, and call the binary like this:
cd ../..
builds/unix/src/stellarium
*If you want to run from the stellarium folder without using the terminal copy the stellarium binary from builds/unix/src to the stellarium folder. Then a click on the binary will start stellarium.
*If you want to install the program, from the builds/unix directory enter this command (as root if necessary):
make install

===Updating SVN===
If you have previously build the SVN code, but want to see what changes have been made since you did that, just cd into the stellarium directory and use the command:
svn up
This will download just the changes which were made since you last retrieved files from the repository. Often, all that will be required is to build from the make stage, but if there are new files you will need to build from the CMake stage.

If you modify any files, subversion will attempt to merge new updates with your changed files. This can lead to build problems, and you may want to ''revert'' your changes before updating. To revert such ''local edits'', from the '''stellarium''' directory, do this before the update:
svn status
And for all files which are listed with an ''M'' next to them, do
svn revert filename filesname2 ...
Or you can just revert all changes recursively:
svn revert -R ./

===Enabling Sound Support===
Audio support for the new scripting engine is available after r3998 of the SVN code. Stellarium's sound support is a compile time option. To use sound in Stellarium you need to have a version of QT which supports the Phonon audio system. You also need a recent version of CMake.

Sound support is controlled by the CMake option ENABLE_SOUND. You can change this setting using ccmake, by editing the CMakeCache.txt file, or by supplying the -DENABLE_SOUND=1 option when you first run CMake.

NOTE: In Ubuntu 9.10 you should install the libqt4-phonon-dev package, but NOT the libphonon-dev package.

===Current Build Issues===
Note that the development code is a work in progress, and as such, please don't expect it to build straight off the bat. Often it will be fine, but sometimes the build will be broken.

If the build seems to be broken for extended periods, try a thorough clean of the build directory (i.e. remove builds/unix), and start from the beginning. Check there are no new dependencies which you are missing. If you still have trouble, post to the forums or stellarium-pubdevel mailing list.

2009-03-10: CMake's detection of Phonon for audio support is not working properly right now. It is necessary to hack up the CMakeLists.txt file to gt it working. I'm working on it. -Matthew
[[Category: Linux]]

Scripts (prior 0.10.x)

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Please note that version 0.10.0 of Stellarium does not have a scripting engine — a new, and more sophisticated scripting engine will be implemented for a future release. People who are able to build the SVN code may play with the [[New Script Engine‎|new scripting engine]] now.

==Installing Scripts==

To install a script copy the script file (.sts extension), and any texture files it uses to the ''scripts'' sub-directory of your [[User Data Directory]]. Instructions with many of these community-donated scripts may date back to older versions of Stellarium, and the instructions provided with the script may be out of date.

==User Contributed Scripts==

This page contains links to scripts provided by users.

* Matthew Gates: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/mng01_eclipse.zip Solar eclipse] (Bangladesh, 2009).
* Barry Gerdes: [http://www.geocities.com/wendygblyde/scripts.zip Solar eclipse] (Australia 2028).
* Schdefoon: [http://schdefoon.de/fileadmin/tools/eclipse1999.zip Solar eclipse] (Germany 1999) — Version for stellarium 0.10.2: look [[New Script Engine‎|this page]].
* Vincent Giangiulio: [http://vincent.gian.club.fr/stellarium/analemma.zip Analemma]/ [http://vincent.gian.club.fr/stellarium/aurora.zip Aurora]
* Richard Brice: [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/Transit_of_Venus.zip Transit of Venus] (Arabian Sea, 2012).
* Gregory Nuckolls: [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/your_sign.zip Your Sign].
* Matthew Gates: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/audio.zip Audio test]. This script will help you to find out if your version of Stellarium was built with sound support enabled.
* Mitch Gerdisch: [http://www.jesslex.com/stellarium/scripts/helloworld.zip helloworld] This is a script that was put together to help the new script writer understand some scripting tricky bits.
* Luca Zanchetta: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/occultation_of_saturn.zip occultation of Saturn 2007] This nice script shows a tour of the Western sky in May 2007, as visible from European Latitudes, paying special attention to the occultation of Saturn by the Moon at this time.
* Raymond Roumeas: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/occultation_venus_lune.sts occultation of Venus by the Moon], 2007-06-18. Visible from NE of America, Greeland, Iceland, most of Europe, Arabia and SW of Asia.
* Matthew Gates: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/zodiac.sts Zodiac]. This script illustrates how to select individual constellations. The constellations of the Western Zodiac were chosen in response to a question in the forums.
* Iva Maric: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/Ven_Jup_Occult_19980423.zip occultation of Venus and Jupiter 1998]. Earth's Moon occults both Venus and Jupiter, as seen from Ascension Island in 1998.
* Iva Maric: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/planet_alightment_2002.zip planetary alignment 2002]. See how the planets were arranged in 2002 — all very close together along the elliptic.
* Iva Maric: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/JupiterAdventure.zip Jupiter adventure]. Take a trip to Jupiter!
* Iva Maric: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/MercuryAdventure.zip Mercury adventure]. Take a trip to Mercury!
* Allen Gary: [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_scripts/solar_type_stars.sts Solar type stars] — See nearby solar class stars.
* Adam Fenley: [http://www.datafilehost.com/download-ebce7264.html Solar Eclipse 2017] — A total solar eclipse in 2017; as seen from Nashville, Tennessee. An updated version for those using the current (circa 4100 build) subversion. It is useless for anyone else. [http://www.datafilehost.com/download-0e02cc84.html Solar Eclipse 2017 0.10.1 script]
* Qam1: [http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/astro/Stellarium/Earth%20oppositions%20from%20a%20Floating%20City%20on%20Venus.zip Earth Oppositions from a floating city on Venus]Script will show how, where and what Earth will look like during oppositions from a floating city on Venus.
* Qam1: [http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/astro/Stellarium/Earth%20from%20Mars.zip Earth From Mars]Script contains Earth's Greatest Elongations as seen from the surface of Mars for the entire 21st century.
* Qam1: [http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/astro/Stellarium/Earth%20from%20Jupiter.zip Earth from Jupiter] Script contains Earth's Greatest Elongations as seen from Jupiter in the 21st century
* Qam1: [http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/astro/Stellarium/Earth_from_other.zip Earth from other bodies] Script contains the best date in the 21st century to view Earth from every other planet and our moon.
* Qam1: [http://www.lowerwolfjaw.com/astro/Stellarium/phobos%20phun.zip Phobos Phun] 7 Scripts of various happenings with Mars' largest Moon.

* Please submit!

==Note for version 0.9.x==
Scripts written for versions previous to 0.9.x of Stellarium might have date commands with the argument in a format like this:
date utc 2008:4:24T12:00:00
date local 2008:4:24T12:00:00

This will cause a problem in version 0.9.x — you need to update such scripts so that the date commands have this format:
date utc 2008-04-24T12:00:00
date local 2008-04-24T12:00:00

i.e so the delimiters in the date portion are hyphens ("-"), not colons and numbers contain leading zeros, where applicable.

==Need hosting?==

If you have a script you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site]].

==See Also==
[[Scripts on Removable Media]]

[[Category:Scripting]][[Category:Customization]]

Accueil

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==Bienvenue==
Bienvenue sur le wiki de Stellarium, une base de connaissances sur Stellarium, le planétarium libre pour votre ordinateur. Le wiki permet aux utilisateurs de Stellarium, d'avoir une participation collaborative à la construction de la base de connaissances sur Stellarium. Alors, si vous avez quelque chose à ajouter ou à modifier, inscrivez-vous.

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<h2 style="color:#f4d385;">Pour commencer</h2>
* [[Stellarium : Qu'est ce que c'est ?|Qu'est-ce que Stellarium?]]
* [[Liste complète des fonctionnalités]]
* [[Télécharger|Où télécharger Stellarium]]
* [[Guide d'installation]]
* [[Guide de démarrage rapide]]
* [[Raccourcis clavier]]
* [[Foire Aux Questions]]

===Guide utilisateur===
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarium/files/Stellarium-user-guide-fr/0.7.1-1/fr_stellarium_user_guide-0.7.1-1.pdf/download Guide utilisateur PDF]
* [[Guide utilisateur|Autres langues & liens]]
* [[User_guide_contributions|Contribution pour écrire le "Guide de l'utilisateur"]] {{an}}
* [[Glossaire]]
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<h2 style="color:#f4d385;">En plus</h2>
===Fichiers supplémentaires pour Stellarium===
* [[Etoiles]]
* [[Paysages]]
* [[Images_de_nébuleuses|Images de nébuleuses]]
* [[Scripts]]
* [[Objets du système solaire]]
* [[Constellations]]
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<h2 style="color:#f4d385">Aidez-nous</h2>
===Les efforts en cours===
* [[Traduction de Stellarium |Traduction de Stellarium dans votre langue]]
* [[Traduction de la page d'accueil|Traduction de la page d'accueil WEB dans votre langue]]
* [[Edition du Wiki|Trucs pour l'édition du wiki]]

===Aides spécifiques===
*[[Emplacement des fichiers de test]]
*[[Recherche des testeurs|Aidez-nous à tester Stellarium]]
*[[Nettoyage des catalogues|Aide au nettoyage des catalogues d'étoiles]]
*[[Sky culture art research|Recherches sur les autres représentations des constellations dans le monde]] {{an}}

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<h2 style="color:#f4d385">Bogues connus</h2>
===Problèmes communs===
*[[Known issues in Stellarium 0.10.1|Dans la version 0.10.1]] {{an}}
*[[Known issues in Stellarium 0.10.2|Dans la version 0.10.2]] {{an}}
*[[Known issues in Stellarium 0.10.3|Dans la version 0.10.3]] {{an}}
*[[Foire_Aux_Questions|N'oubliez pas de consulter la FAQ]]
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<h2 style="color:#f4d385">Sujets avancés</h2>
===Projection===
* [[Construire votre planétarium]]
===Pilotage de télescope===
*[[Contrôle_du_téléscope|Piloter votre téléscope avec Stellarium]]
*[[Compatibilité des télescopes]]
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<h2 style="color:#f4d385">Développeurs</h2>
===Compilation===
* [[Svn checkout|Extraction d'une version de développement depuis Subversion]] (l'ancienne page CVS est [[Cvs checkout|là]] pour des raisons historiques). {{an}}
*[[Compilation sous Linux]]
*[[Windows_Build_Instructions|Construction sous Windows]] {{an}}
*[[Compilation_on_Macosx|Compilation sur Mac osx]] {{an}}
*[[Développement_plugins|Construire et développer des plugins]]

===Le code===
*[[Standard du code]]
*[[Structure des répertoires et fichiers]]

===Liste de diffusion===
* [http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=48857 Suivez ce qui se passe au développement par la lecture de notre liste de diffusion]. Vous pouvez envoyer un courriel à cette liste, mais il sera modéré avant d'apparaître.

===Calendrier de sortie===
*[[Calendrier de sortie]]

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Download

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=Official Packages=
For official release packages, please see the [http://stellarium.org stellarium.org main page].

Older versions can be downloaded from the [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48857 project download] page.

=Unofficial Packages=
''Please do not report bugs found in unofficial builds. Also, treat them as you would any software whose source cannot be easily verified (i.e. with caution).''

If you have, or know about, other unofficial builds (previews etc.), please list them here.

==Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian==
A Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian installer of version 0.10.2 is now available for download here [http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium_0.10.2-1_i386.deb stellarium_0.10.2-1_i386.deb] and [http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium-data_0.10.2-1_all.deb stellarium-data_0.10.2-1_all.deb]. Its about 3 Mb and 35 Mb Mb. These .deb files are from the Ubuntu 9.10 repositories and may work on other Mint, Ubuntu and Debian based systems as well.
Download the files and save it somewhere on your disk. start the installer by double-clicking the .deb file in Nautilus, Thunar of Konqueror.

If you've got a newer ubuntu than 8.10 you should install stellarium from the normal repositories.

Mail me any comment at jeroen dot adolfse at gmail dot com.

==Plugins==
===For Stellarium 0.10.2/Ubuntu i386===
* Bundle containing AngleMeasure, CompassMarks, Ocular, TextUserInterface and Satellite plugins. Un-tar this in your ~/.stellarium directory: [http://porpoisehead.net/misc/stellarium-plugin-bundle.tar.bz2 stellarium-plugin-bundle.tar.bz2]

===For Stellarium 0.10.2/Win32===
* Bundle of plugins (AngleMeasure, CompassMarks, Ocular): [http://porpoisehead.net/misc/stellarium-plugin-bundle.exe stellarium-plugin-bundle.exe]
* AngleMeasre 0.0.5 (including configurable display colors via the module.ini file) [http://porpoisehead.net/misc/stellarium-anglemeasure-plugin.exe stellarium-anglemeasure-plugin.exe]
* Satellites plugin installer (v0.1.1): [http://porpoisehead.net/misc/stellarium-satellites-plugin.exe stellarium-satellites-plugin.exe]
* Barry Gerdes maintains some pre-built versions of plugins for Windows systems, which you can find on [http://www.geocities.com/wendygblyde his site].

==Telescope Servers==
===Win32 Binaries===
*Zip file containing all the open source telescope servers [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/win32_telescope_servers.zip here].

Or individually:
*[http://members.aon.at/johannes_gajdosik/TelescopeServerLx200.exe.gz TelescopeServerLx200.exe.gz]
*[http://members.aon.at/johannes_gajdosik/TelescopeServerNexStar.exe.gz TelescopeServerNexStar.exe.gz]
*[http://members.aon.at/johannes_gajdosik/TelescopeServerDummy.exe.gz TelescopeServerDummy.exe.gz]
Some people have problems with their browsers: the browser silently unpacks the gziped file. If you suffer from such a problem, just rename the downloaded file to TelescopeServerLx200.exe (or similar).

Setting up your own dome using Stellarium's spheric mirror distortion feature

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People interested in building and operating their own planetarium can subscribe to a YahooGroup, and the related Small Planetarium Forums Site.

*[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/small_planetarium/ Small or Portable Planetarium Group — Yahoo! Groups]
*http://www.astro-obsessions.com/small_planetarium

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In the following section I want to describe how you can build your own planetarium using Stellarium’s <code>spheric_mirror</code> distortion feature.

What you need:
#A dome. The dome should have a spherical inside. I suppose you can have good results with any dome larger than 2m in diameter, perhaps even with smaller ones.
#A spherical security mirror. I recommenda 1/4 mirror, that is a quarter of a sphere. Something like 0.4 or 0.5m in diameter should be ok, for small domes you may need smaller mirrors, decide for yourself.
#A video projector
#A computer running a current verion of stellarium.

In the following example I assume a dome with 5m diameter and a spheric 1/4 mirror with radius 0.25m.
I suggest the following config.ini settings:

[spheric_mirror]
projector_gamma = 0.45
projector_position_x = 0
projector_position_y = 1
projector_position_z = -0.2
mirror_position_x = 0
mirror_position_y = 2
mirror_position_z = 0
mirror_radius = 0.25
dome_radius = 2.5
zenith_y = 0.125
scaling_factor = 0.8
flip_horz = true
flip_vert = false
...
flag_gravity_labels = true
...
flag_menu = false

You should be familiar with the keys because there will be no menu except the tui. When you start stellarium press "PgDown" to get maximum FOV and "CursorUp" in order to look at the zenith. Press "z" 2 times in order to display the azimuth grid. Press "1" in order to get the config window. In the video settings choose the spheric_mirror distortion.

Install the spheric mirror inside the dome. Imagine a coordinate system that is centered in the dome center. The z-axis points upward to the zenith and the y-axis points to some point on the horizon. Look into the direction of the y-axis. Now the x-axis points to a point on the horizon which is near your right hand. In the above config.ini example I suggest that the center of the spheric mirror is at (0,2,0) (I use meters, but feel free to use any units you like).

Install the projector approximately at (0,1,-0.2). Notice the z-coordinate -0.2: the projector is lower than the spheric mirror center so that it shall not occult parts of the image. In my implementation I assume that all light comes from one point, which in reality is not true. The projector_position in config.ini refers to this fictional point. It will lie somewhere inside your projector, I do not know, where.

Turn your projector on and project the image onto the mirror. The upper black curved border of the image should correspond to the upper part of the mirror. Use the projector zoom and the scaling_factor in order to match. Also shift and tilt your projector so that the image zenith and horizon is projected onto your dome zenith and horizon. The azimuth grid should be in place, you know what I mean. Play around with the geometry parameters. In order to get equal illumination throughout the dome, you must set the projector_gamma value to whatever your projector needs.

I keep getting inquiries about zenith_y, so here comes a short explanation.
The optical axis of the projector does not go through the center of the mirror sphere, but it meets the mirror surface on some point in the upper half. With the zenith_y parameter you can configure, where this point is. With zenith_y=0 the zenith is right in the center of the stellarium window (y=0). With zenith_y>0 the zenith is above the center of the stellarium window, with zenith_y<0 the zenith is below the center of the stellarium window.
There is no zenith_x parameter for moving the zenith to the left of right side of the stellarium window.
Exercise: try zenith_y values of 0.0,0.3,-0.3.

You do not need to restart stellarium every time you make changes to the spheric mirror distortion parameters. While stellarium is running just change the parameters in config.ini with your favourite editor, and in the stellarium config window switch to a different projection type, and back to spheric mirror distortion.

Mr. Paul Bourke has explained to me that some users like the following setup: They configure their dual head graphic card to show the same image on both outputs. One of them is connected to the projector, the other to an ordinary monitor that is used by the operator only. The operator wants to read the texts left-to-right, and therefore there shall be no image flipping on the stellarium image. Of course the projector then must be capable of doing image flipping, and must be configured to do so. Therefore I have introduced two new config.ini options in the [spheric_mirror] section: flip_horz (default=true) and flip_vert (default=false). This feature is available in current svn, and will go into the 0.9.x release.

Mr. Paul Bourke was so nice to set up an own page describing in great detail how to setup stellariums spheric mirror distortion feature, please visit his page at:

http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/stellarium/

I hope you will be satisfied with the results. Please send pictures of your new planetarium!

Yours,
[[User:Johannes|Johannes]]

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New features in current svn, which will go into version 0.9:

1) Ability to control image flipping:
[spheric_mirror]
flip_horz (horizontal image flipping, optional, default=true)
flip_vert (vertical image flipping, optional, default=false)

2) distortion can also be based on other projections than fisheye, for example stereographic, equal area or cylinder

3) improved texturing with triangles, image width and height need not be multiples of 16 any more:
[spheric_mirror]
texture_triangle_base_length (how fine the grid shall be, optional, default=16)

4) make use of the OpenGL EXT_framebuffer_object extension for increasing the resolution of the image that shall be distorted. The image is then rendered to an off-screen buffer with configurable layout.
You can disable ext_framebuffer_object if it does not work on your hardware/driver.
[spheric_mirror]
flag_use_ext_framebuffer_object (optional, default autodetect: true, when extension is available)
Warning: when your video card/driver supports the OpenGL EXT_framebuffer_object extension, but does not support the OpenGL EXT_packed_depth_stencil extension, you can still use the EXT_framebuffer_object extension, but you will have no stencil buffer in viewport distortion mode.
This results in bad drawing of the earth shadow during lunar eclipses.
Currently only NVidia cards support EXT_packed_depth_stencil.

5) make the layout of the not yet distorted image configurable
[spheric_mirror]
distorter_max_fov (maximum FOV value of the not yet distorted image, optional, default=175)
viewport_width (width of the not yet distorted image, optional, default=screen_w)
viewport_height (height of the not yet distorted image, optional, default=screen_h)
viewport_center_x (center of the FOV-disk in the not yet distorted image, optional, default = 0.5*viewport_width)
viewport_center_y (center of the FOV-disk in the not yet distorted image, optional, default = 0.5*viewport_height)
viewport_fov_diameter (diameter of the FOV-disk in pixels, optional, default=min(viewport_width,viewport_height))

6) The current set of parameters work well for configuration of a standard dome setup (where zenith, projector, dome center, mirror center and projector optical axis lie in a single plane). Yet I received lots of questions and even complaints about the parameters zenith_y and scaling_factor. Perhaps it was to not easy enough to understand
their meaning and importance. Therefore I have decided to introduce additional parameters:
[spheric_mirror]
projector_alpha (optional, default = 0)
projector_delta (optional, default = whatever your zenith_y parameter implied)
projector_phi (optional, default = 0)
image_distance_div_height (optional, default = whatever your scaling_factor implied)
projector_alpha, projector_delta specifies the direction of the projectors optical axis in degrees, projector_phi specifies how much the projector is turned around its optical axis. image_distance_div_height is focal length of the projector divided by the height of the projectors video chip, which is the same as the distance to the projected image divided by the projected images height. Because of the default values, your previous setup with zenith_y and scaling_factor will continue to work as usual. Yet I encourage migrating to the new parameters, which is easy, because the needed values are printed to stdout (you can read them in your xterm window). Windows users - if there are any - have some special file where they can read the standard output, I think it is called cout.txt, stdout.txt or similar.

7) With the above described parameters you can setup stellariums distortion feature for any planetarium with a spheric dome and a spheric mirror. The only restriction is that both the mirror and the dome have spheric shape.
But even when the dome and/or the mirror are aspheric, you can use stellariums distortion feature by supplying a custom distortion grid using the parameter
[spheric_mirror]
custom_distortion_file (optional, default="")
custom_distortion_file is not for the faint of heart. Only people who know what they are doing are supposed to use it. I will not support requests from people who do not understand what is going on.

When custom_distortion_file is supplied, the parameters projector_gamma, projector_position_x, projector_position_y, projector_position_z, mirror_position_x, mirror_position_y, mirror_position_z, mirror_radius, dome_radius, zenith_y, scaling_factor, flip_horz, flip_vert, texture_triangle_base_length, projector_alpha, projector_delta, projector_phi, image_distance_div_height have no influence on the distortion process any more. Instead the distortion is controlled by the contents of the given file.

The syntax of the custom_distortion_file is as follows: It contains integers or floats in decimal notation seperated by whitespaces. The first and second numbers are max_x, max_y (both integer). They discribe the dimension of the triangular distortion grid:
const double step_x = screen_w / (double)(max_x-0.5);
const double step_y = screen_h / (double)max_y;
for (int j=0;j<=max_y;j++) for (int i=0;i<=max_x;i++) {
vertex_x = (i == 0)
? 0.0
: (i == max_x)
? screen_w
: ((i-0.5*(j%2))*step_x);
vertex_y = j*step_y;
}
vertex_x, vertex_y are the coordinates in the destination image. After max_x, max_y come (max_y+1)*(max_x+1) tuples of 5 numbers each. The 5 numbers are: x, y, r, g, b, all of them float. These are the texture coordinates and colors of the vertices given above. The texture coordianates are the coordinates in the fisheye image. The ranges are:
0 <= x <= viewport_width
0 <= y <= viewport_height
0 <= r,g,b <= 1
Remember that the bottom left corner has coordinates (0,0). Example custom_distortion_file for a 1024x768 viewport:
2 1
0 0 1 1 1
900 0 1 1 1
1024 0 1 0 0
0 768 0 0 1
100 768 1 1 1
1024 768 1 1 1

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Related parameters when spheric mirror distortion is disabled.
When these parameters are not supplied, you get the old behaviour:
[projection]
fisheye_max_fov (maximum fisheye FOV, optional, try 360)
cylinder_max_fov (maximum cylinder FOV, optional)
viewport_width (width of the image, optional, default=screen_w)
viewport_height (height of the image, optional, default=screen_h)
viewport_center_x (center of the FOV-disk, optional, default = 0.5*viewport_width)
viewport_center_y (center of the FOV-disk, optional, default = 0.5*viewport_height)
viewport_fov_diameter (diameter of the FOV-disk in pixels, optional, default=min(viewport_width,viewport_height))
viewport_x (offset of the viewport within the screen, default = 0.5*(screen_w-viewport_width)
viewport_y (offset of the viewport within the screen, default = 0.5*(screen_h-viewport_height)

[[Category:Planetarium]]

Proposals:Artificial Satellites

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==Introduction==
Predicting passes of artificial satellites in orbit around Earth would be a very interesting feature for Stellarium.

Artificial satellites in orbit around Earth have more complicated orbital behavior than planets or moons. Orbital calculations need to take into account the non-uniform gravitational field of the Earth, interaction with the Moon, atmospheric drag and so on.

==Orbital Element Acquisition==
In addition to the more complicated orbital calculations, the orbits of artificial satellites are often changed by altitude boosting operations.

Several Internet resources are available for downloading updated orbital elements, usually in the NORAD TLE (two line element) format. An artificial satellite prediction system would need to be able to periodically check for updated orbital elements and update Stellarium's object database.

==Orbital Calculation==
TLE elements are the input for various models for the calculation of satellites positions, e.g. SGP/SGP4/SDP4/SGP8/SDP8. A detailed discussion of the TLE format, models and a reference implementations in FORTRAN may be found in [http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ftp/docs/spacetrk.pdf this document].

==Rendering and User Interface Components==
There are several possible ways in which satellites may be seen within Stellarium:
#Sky rendering, much like a star (with properly calculated magnitude and so on).
#A list of satellite passes for the observer's location over a given time period.
#Radio footprints of satellites overlaid on the location map
#Iridium flare prediction/rendering
#ISS rendering as a special object
#Other ideas?

==Related Software==
GNU Predict implements the relevant models needed for the calculation of satellite positions, and methods for parsing TLE data. This could be a good place to share/borrow/nab/eat code from.

==Related Resources==
*[https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=607420.49450.qm%40web63307.mail.re1.yahoo.com mailing list thread]
*[http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html Predict]

[[Category:Development]]
[[Category:Proposals]]

Landscapes

2010-05-03T23:58:45Z

Matthewg42: /* Australasia */

==How to install landscapes==
When you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape on this page, follow this procedure to install it in Stellarium:
#Determine the [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system.
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory.
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for six of the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all apart from Antarctica.
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_penneshaw_thumb.png
| '''Clive Nelson - Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, Australia'''. Penneshaw is a small township at the Northwest end of Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia. In the north is the entrance to Gulf St Vincent and the Australian mainland. In the east is the Penneshaw township, To the west, on the horizon, is Kingscote, the main town on Kangaroo Island.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_penneshaw.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Port%20of%20La%20Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/la%20guardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
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| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/stellarium.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[ftp://ftp2.obs-sirene.com/obssirene/Stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
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| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken on the roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March 2009.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.tar Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken in Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March 2009. The picture was taken with the sun setting in the west.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.tar Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
||[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
|| win32; Linux (using wine)
|| Shareware/demo
|| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
||[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
|| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
||
|}

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2010-05-03T23:50:27Z

Matthewg42: /* Europe */

==How to install landscapes==
When you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape on this page, follow this procedure to install it in Stellarium:
#Determine the [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system.
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory.
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for six of the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all apart from Antarctica.
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Port%20of%20La%20Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/la%20guardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/stellarium.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[ftp://ftp2.obs-sirene.com/obssirene/Stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken on the roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March 2009.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.tar Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken in Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March 2009. The picture was taken with the sun setting in the west.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.tar Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_la_guardia_thumb.png
| '''Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta - La Guardia'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_la_guardia.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
||[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
|| win32; Linux (using wine)
|| Shareware/demo
|| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
||[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
|| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
||
|}

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

Landscapes

2010-05-03T15:58:33Z

Matthewg42: /* Africa */

==How to install landscapes==
When you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape on this page, follow this procedure to install it in Stellarium:
#Determine the [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system.
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory.
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for six of the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all apart from Antarctica.
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_mbabane_thumb.jpg
| '''Quinton Reissmann - mbabane, Swaziland'''. Mbabane is the capital of the little kingdom of Swaziland. Waterford/Kamhlaba is an international school on a mountain side which prides itself in cultural diversity. In SiSwati "kamhlaba" means "a world in miniature". The actual view is from the sports field where we usually set up the telescope.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mbabane.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Port%20of%20La%20Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/la%20guardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell2.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/stellarium.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[ftp://ftp2.obs-sirene.com/obssirene/Stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken on the roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March 2009.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.tar Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken in Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March 2009. The picture was taken with the sun setting in the west.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.tar Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
||[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
|| win32; Linux (using wine)
|| Shareware/demo
|| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
||[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
|| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
||
|}

[[Category:Landscapes]]
[[Category:Customization]]

User:Tapio

2010-04-09T17:10:00Z

Matthewg42:

bonjour :)

Bonjour :) [[User:Matthewg42|Matthewg42]] 17:10, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

User:W123qwe

2010-03-24T07:08:59Z

Matthewg42: New page: Please make sure you make a local language COPY of Landscapes to translate - you keep modifying the English version!

Please make sure you make a local language COPY of Landscapes to translate - you keep modifying the English version!

Landscapes

2010-03-24T07:08:12Z

Matthewg42:

==How to install landscapes==
When you have downloaded the .zip file for a landscape on this page, follow this procedure to install it in Stellarium:
#Determine the [[User Data Directory]], which varies according to your operating system.
#Create a sub-directory called ''landscapes'' in your user directory.
#Unzip the landscape .zip file in the ''landscapes'' directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each landscape).

NOTE: Older version of Stellarium (prior to v0.9.0) used a slightly different mechanism for doing landscapes. You can find a list of the old landscapes [[Landscapes pre 0.9.0|here]].

==User contributed landscapes (by continent)==
We have landscapes for six of the seven continents (in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent seven continent model]) - all apart from Antarctica.
===Interplanetary===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/husband-hill.jpg
| '''Johan - Husband Hill, Mars'''. Johan transformed this Mars image from NASA into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. Mars rover Spirit made this image during August 24 to 27, 2005. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell. Read more on [http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/spirit/2005.html this webpage].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_marsopportunity_thumb.jpg
| '''Mike - Mars Opportunity Rover'''. Mike sent posted this landscape in the forums. Another nice Mars rover landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_mars_opportunity_rover.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_iss_thumb.png
| '''Makc - International Space Station'''. Landscape made using some screen shots and data from the wonderful [http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ Celestia]. Set the projection mode to stereographic, zoom out to a wide field of view and point down towards the ground to get the nice rounded "planet" effect.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_iss.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_11_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 11 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Buzz Aldrin. Look down and you can see Buzz's footprints :) [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_11.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_apollo_17_thumb.jpg
| '''Mathew Myrup - Apollo 17 landing site'''. This landscape is made using NASA photographs taken by Gene Cernan. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_apollo_17.zip Download]
|}

===Africa===
{|
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Idehan Ubari, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the desert of Idehan Ubari in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/idehan.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Leptis Magna, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of the theatre of the Roman city of Leptis Magna. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/183 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/leptis.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Sahara, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view from somewhere in the middle of the Sahara in Lybia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/sahara.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Volcano Waw al-Namus, Lybia'''. This is a panoramic view of Volcano Waw al-Namus in the Sahara.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/waw-al-namus.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/capmasoala_thumb.jpg
| ''' Matthias D. Frei - Cap Masoala, Madagascar'''. This panorama was photographed from the abandoned French lighthouse at the southernmost point of the Masoala peninsula in Madagascar. It provides a spectacular view over the Indian Ocean and the Masoala peninsula that is still mainly covered with rainforest. More information about this particular place can be found [http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/index.html here]
[http://www.domani.ch/masoala/en/cap_masoala.zip Download]
|}

===Asia===
{|
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_everest_thumb.png
| '''Makc - Mount Everest'''. Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level. [http://www.everestviews.com/ Roddy Mackenzie], who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_everest.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_jantar_thumb.png
| '''Barry Perlus & Stellarium team - Jantar Mantar'''. Professor Barry Perlus of Cornell University allowed us to use his panoramic photography of one of the Jantar Mantars in India to create this landscape. For more information on these fascinating scientific and architectural works see [http://jantarmantar.org/ jantarmantar.org].
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_jantar.zip Download]
|}

===Australasia===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/beaumont-hills.jpg
| '''Barry Gerdes - Beaumont Hills, Sydney, Australia'''. Barry made an interesting multiple-image landscape from the rooftop of his house. You can find a detailed account of how this was done in the [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.0-1/#SECTION001100000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide]. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_beaumont_hills.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/transit-hill.jpg
| '''Graeme Ewing - Transit Hill, Lord Howe Island, Australia'''. Graeme Ewing Contributed this panorama of the astronomically significant and visually stunning Transit Hill site Northeast of Sydney, Australia.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_transit_hill.zip Download]
|}

===Europe===
{|
| http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:Quieroregresaramiplaneta Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta] - La Guardia, Galicia, Spain [http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/Port%20of%20La%20Guardia.kmz Kmz file]'''. La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008.
[http://mismovidasweb.comuf.com/la%20guardia.zip Download].
|-
| http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/thumbnail.png
| '''[http://www.cestomano.com José Ángel Estévez] - Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife, Spain'''. This landscape of Las Cañadas was built in April 2008. It's located in the center of Tenerife island, Canary Islands. It can be viewed the Teide volcano -the highest mountain in Spain: 3.718 mts.-, El Llano de Ucanca and Los Roques de García with the characteristic rock "El Cinchado" which, with Teide Volcano, appeared in the old 1.000 ptas. bill. [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/lascanadas.zip Download] '''Note:''' If you have problems with the landscape (landscape may not appear because low memory on VGA chip), try to download and replace the PNG landscape with [http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1126231/stellarium/peq/lascanadas.png this 50% scaled image].
|-
| http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch_tmb.png
| '''Christian Waldvogel - Jungfraujoch High Altitude Research Station, Switzerland'''. Lying at 3580m in the Bernese Alps, the Jungfraujoch is often dubbed "Top of Europe". It has been home to an astronomical observation station for more than 80 years. The spherical landscape was created from 20 images taken on June 29th, 2008, at 1015, from the lower terrace of the Sphinx Obervatory. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096).
[http://www.waldvogel.com/stellarium/landscape_jungfraujoch.zip Download]
|-
| http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos_thumb.jpg
| '''Uwe Buecher - Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, Spain'''. This high resolution landscape was built with hugin from 20 photos taken in October 2007. It is located on top of the highest mountain on La Palma, Canary Islands. You can see the Buildings of the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, one of them is the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) which is the greatest telescope in the world today (10.4m diameter) [http://pano.jubila.de/stellarium/muchachos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_egarden_thumb.png
| '''Rob Spearman & Johan Meuris - English Garden, Munich, Germany'''. The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_egarden_old_style.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/voksenlia.jpg
|'''Steinar Midtskogen - Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway'''. Steinar Midtskogen sent [http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/voksenlia.png this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image] of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_voksenlia.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/observatory-hill-Barry.jpg
| '''Friedrich Noelle & Barry Gerdes - Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland'''. Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_edinburgh.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sight_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland'''. Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan. Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills. Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/sighthill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beech_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.geomancygroup.org Grahame Gardner] - Beech Hill stone circle, nr. Nutley, E. Sussex, England'''. Beech Hill is a modern stone ring constructed in 2000 by Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore of The Geomancy Group [http://www.geomancygroup.org/ www.geomancygroup.org]. Located in the Ashdown Forest, the circle's main alignment is to the Pole Star, denoted by the angled outlier.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/beechhill.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchthumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England'''. This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/mitchell.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburyn_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.vallecrucisgrail.co.uk/ Ian Pegler] - Avebury - North circle, Wiltshire, England'''. The North circle of the largest megalithic complex in Europe. In the background you can just make out the Red Lion pub.
[http://www.geomancygroup.org/stella/aveburynorth.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/ponta-da-piedade.jpg
| '''Johan - Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal'''. Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_lagos.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/landscape_gurnigel_thumb.png
| '''Martin Mutti - Gurnigel, Switzerland'''. This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_gurnigel.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/tishinka-ardashev.jpg
| '''Dmitri Ardashev - Tishinka, Russia'''. This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow(55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_tishinka.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t60pic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from [http://astrosurf.com/t60/ T60 Association], installed at Pic du Midi Observatory.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t60pic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_t1mpic_thumb.jpg
| '''Sylvain Rondi - T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France'''. Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France).
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_t1mpic.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sheffieldrivelin_thumb.png
| '''Jan Wedekind - River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK'''. This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, [[User:Wedesoft|Jan Wedekind]], [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0]
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sheffieldrivelin.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ares_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/User:rcasl Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo] - Ares, Galicia, Spain'''. Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17..
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ares.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_ovindoli_thumb.jpg
| '''Pierluigi Panunzi - Ovindoli, Italy'''. Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_ovindoli.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rustrel, France'''. This is a panoramic view of the Colorado de Rustrel in "Les Sentiers de l'Ocre et du Fer", Provence, France.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rustrel.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Stintino.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Stintino, Italy'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/stintino.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - St Peter's Square, Vatican'''. This is a panoramic view of the St Peter's Square. City of Vatican. Some parts of the buildings are missing, not enough pictures... This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/286 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/vatican.zip Download]
|-
| http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/Larvotto.jpg
| '''[http://my.opera.com/aid85 aid85] - Munegu, MC'''. High resolution 360° landscape taken at Larvotto beach in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Munegu \ Monaco - MC] (MonteCarlo) - Europe \ Mediterraneum Sea - Ligurian Sea.
[http://files.myopera.com/aid85/files/host/munegu.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/thumbnails.jpg
| '''[http://www.ticfisquim.org Angel Juan Martínez] - Cocentaina, Spain'''. This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium.
[http://www.ticfisquim.org/astro/stellarium/cocentaina.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.jpg
| '''[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/stellarium.html Jeroen Adolfse] - Amstelveen, The Netherlands'''. This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb)
[http://www.xs4all.nl/~adonet/stellarium/tulipfield.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/stellarium.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - [http://www.obs-sirene.com Sirene Observatory], Lagarde d'Apt (84), France'''. Panoramic view of installations. Previously the site was used as a nuclear lauching pad. Now days, Sirene accepts everybody for astronomical observations. (File is 11 Mb)
[ftp://ftp2.obs-sirene.com/obssirene/Stellarium/sirene.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard-tn.png
| '''[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/ Sveinn í Felli] - Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland'''. This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb)
[http://www.nett.is/~sveinki/stellarium/vonarskard.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge_winter_solstice_sunset_ts.png
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Woodhenge near Stonehenge''', was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/woodhenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge_screenshot_st.jpg
| '''[http://www.brontovox.co.uk Hugo Jenks] - Stonehenge'''. Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years. The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published, and are detailed here: [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/ www.brontovox.co.uk] These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon, and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. [http://www.brontovox.co.uk/Downloads/stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Rila Monastery, Bulgaria'''. This is a panoramic view of the Rila Monastery in Bulgaria. This building is quite high so the sky area is not really large. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/216 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/rila.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Silistar, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Silistar Beach in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/silistar/index_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/silistar.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view of the Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/sofia/alexander-nevsky_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/alexandernevsky.zip Download]
|-
| http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.jpg
| '''[http://bg360.net BG360] - Statue of Freedom, Rousse, Bulgaria'''. Panoramic view from the center of Rousse in Bulgaria. See this panorama here [http://pano.bg360.net/ruse/pametnik-svobodata_en.php Flash pano].
[http://bg360.net/stellarium/rousse.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/thumbnail.jpg
| '''[http://www.madbros.net Madbros] - Villaricos Beach, Almeria, Spain'''. This is a spheric panoramic view. Some hints for designing your own spherical landscapes.
[http://www.madbros.net/astro/data/stellarium/landscapes/villaricos/villaricos.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/thumbnail-dm.jpg
| '''Markus Dähne - Central Munich'''. This landscape shows the view from the Eastern observatory of the [http://www.beobachtergruppe.com Deutsches Museum] in Munich, Germany. During public observing sessions, Stellarium is used to help explain the sky :-)
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/dm.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_leist_thumb.jpg
| '''Bernd Lang - Leist, Switzerland'''. This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m). The picture was taken during a [http://www.panoramio.com/user/1437658 hiking tour] from Tanenboden to the top of the Leist.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_leist.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_stonehenge_thumb.jpg
| '''[http://www.freetadel.blogspot.com/ Fernando] - Stonehenge, England'''. This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_stonehenge.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Place du Palais des Papes, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignon.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Le Pont d'Avignon, Avignon'''. This is a panoramic view of the Pont d'Avignon (aka Bridge Saint-Bénezet) in Avignon. France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/228 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/avignonb.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Roman Theatre of Orange'''. This is a panoramic view of the Roman Theatre of Orange- France. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/163 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/orange.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken on the roof of the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK in March 2009.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/cambridge.tar Download]
|-
| http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester-thumb.png
| '''Matt Hickford - Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK'''. The photos for this panorama were taken in Grantchester Meadows, Cambridgeshire, UK in March 2009. The picture was taken with the sun setting in the west.
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mh519/stellarium_landscapes/grantchester.tar Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_areeiro_thumb.jpg
| '''Filipe Gomes'''. This is a panoramic view of the [http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico_do_Arieiro Pico do Areeiro], the second highest
point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_areeiro.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_caniga_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.flickr.com/photos/25710744@N03/2672852380/ Andrea Pittalis]. This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_caniga.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn-landscape.jpg
| '''Peter Lynch.''' Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south.
[http://www.under-a-dark-sky.com/stellarium/cdn.zip download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_aaaov_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Vauvenargues Observatory located near Aix-en-Provence, France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/aaaov.zip Download]
|-
| http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/landscape_baie_saint_michel_thumb.jpg
| [http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov Astronomes Amateurs Aixois Observatoire Vauvenargues (AAAOV) - France]. Saint Michel Bay - Serre Ponçon lake, Alpes - France.
[http://www.astrosurf.com/aaaov/landscape/baie_saint_michel.zip Download]
|}

===North America===
{|
| http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/images/saltlakecity.jpg
| '''Hiram Bertoch - Salt Lake City Panorama'''. Hiram made this panorama for the KidsKnowIt Network's outreach program
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_salt_lake_city.zip Download]
|-
| http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/images/landscape_sanjose_thumb.png
| '''BrendaEM - San Jose, California, USA'''. This panorama was made using Nasa's WorldWind. Screenshots were taken at 45 degree increments. The screenshots were layered and stitched together, and then offset until the the Northern mountains were aligned. A landscape such as this could be made of any location in the world. There is a plug-in for WorldWind called "BigScreenshot," that may make the process easier, but not automate it. A plug-in could be written to do this entire process automatically.
[http://porpoisehead.net/mysw/downloads/landscapes-0.9.x/landscape_sanjose.zip Download]
|-
| http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/thumbnail.jpg
| '''Lee Trampleasure Amosslee - Berkeley, California, USA'''. This panorama is centered at the [http://solarcalendar.org/ Cesar Chavez Memorial Solar Calendar] at the Berkeley Marina. The solar calendar has large stones that line up with the sunrises and sunsets at the equinoxes and solstices. [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar-large.png 4096X2048 PNG photo, 8.3MB], or [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/chavez-solar-calendar.png 2048x1024 PNG photo 2.1MB]. In the larger photo, I painted the Golden Gate bridge to make it stand out a bit more. Credits and location can be found in the [http://trampleasure.net/science/solar-calendar/landscape.ini landscapes.ini file]. Please include credits if you use/distribute this version.
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - El Tajin, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the prehispanic city of El Tajin. Theses ruins are part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/631 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/eltajin.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Mexico Ciudad, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Zocalo (Plaza de la Constitución) of Mexico Ciudad.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/mexico.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico'''. This is a panoramic view of the Cuadrangulo de las Monjas in Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal. This site is part of [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/791 UNESCO World Heritage].
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/uxmal.zip Download]
|-
| http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder_thumb.png
| '''Martin C. Doege - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder University of Colorado at Boulder], Boulder, Colorado, USA'''. View from Farrand Field at the University, with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatirons Flatirons] to the southwest. (File is 2.9 Mb)
[http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/pano/boulder.zip Download]
|}

===South America===
{|
| http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranalscreenshot.png
| '''[http://www.essl.de Dirk Essl] - ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.''' (updated version with higher resolution and correct alignment) The Very Large Telescope Project (VLT) is a system of four separate optical telescopes (the Antu telescope, the Kueyen telescope, the Melipal telescope, and the Yepun telescope) organized in an array formation. Each telescope has an 8.2 m aperture. The array is complemented by three movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture. The project is organized by the [http://www.eso.org/ ESO].
[http://www.essl.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/paranal.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Cachi, Argentina'''. This is a panoramic view of the Parque National Los Cardones near the village of Cachi.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/cachi.zip Download]
|-
| http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.jpg
| '''[http://www.soyouz.com Xavier Bonnefoy-Cudraz] - Laguna Verde, Bolivia'''. This is a panoramic view of the Laguna Verde and Laguna Blanca under the Juriques (5704m) and Licancabur (5920m) Volcanos. These lakes are located in Reserva Nacional Eduardo Avaroa, Bolivia.
[http://soyouzworld.free.fr/landscape/lagunaverde.zip Download]
|}

===Polar regions===
{|
| http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.png
| '''[http://cyprien.pouzenc.free.fr Cyprien Pouzenc] - French-Italian Concordia Station'''. Panoramic view of the station installed at Dome C, Antarctica.
[http://www.obs-sirene.com/annonces/concordia.zip Download]
|}

==Contributions==
Please feel free to contribute your own custom landscapes here. Make thumbnails 200x114 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please include a location section in your landscape.ini file with the longitude, latitude, altitude and planet for the location of the landscape (see one of the pre-existing landscapes for an example).

To find out more about how to create a landscape, see the [http://www.porpoisehead.net/mysw/stellarium_user_guide_html-0.9.1-1/#SECTION00670000000000000000 Stellarium User Guide], and examine existing landscapes. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice.

===Important note on image dimensions===
'''IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, ... e.g. 4096 by 1024, 2048 by 2048 and so on.'''

This is a limitation of OpenGL. Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer.

'''Please make sure all contributed landscapes conform to these requirements, or your link may be removed.'''

Be aware that many people's video hardware cannot handle very large textures. This is hardware and driver dependent. A typical maximum image size is 2048x2048 or 4096x4096.

===Package contents===
Please package your landscape in a .zip file with all files inside a directory in the .zip file. This should be unique to your landscape, and it would be nice it it was all lower-case with no spaces.

You should also include a readme.txt file which describes the landscape and specifies any usage restrictions or licensing terms for the images used in the landscape.

===Licensing===
Before you distribute images as part of a Stellarium landscape, please ensure you are legally entitled to - you must be the copyright holder for the images, or be able to distribute them for use with Stellarium under the terms of some agreement with the copyright holder (e.g. Creative Commons licensed images found on the web).

It is important to explicitly state what use may be made of images for your landscape. This should be done in the readme.txt file inside the .zip file.

We recommend an open source license compatible with Stellarium itself (i.e. the GNU GPL), or one of the Creative Commons licenses.

===Example package contents===

From the Mars Husband Hill landscape:

Archive: landscape_mars_husband_hill.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
1815308 02-05-07 21:02 mars_husband_hill/husband_hill.png
211 05-28-07 19:44 mars_husband_hill/landscape.ini
1096 06-04-07 15:21 mars_husband_hill/readme.txt
-------- -------
1816615 3 files

The readme.txt file should look something like this:

Mars Husband Hill Landscape for Stellarium
==========================================

Description
-----------

This landscape was taken from the NASA Spirit Rover on Mars.

Files
-----

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

mars/readme.txt
mars/landscape.ini
mars/husband_hill.png

Installation & Use
------------------

Unzip the landscape package file in your personal stellarium data
directory, or the <config_root>/landscapes directory. The location
varyies depending on your operating system. See the Stellarium
User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog. Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.

Credits
-------

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/panoramas/opportunity/index.html

License
-------

NASA Images are released into the public domain

===File encoding===
The landscape.ini and readme.txt files should be UTF-8 encoded text or plain ASCII. It's probably a good idea to adopt the Windows line ending encoding, (i.e. CR LF). Both Windows and *nix style line ending encoding should work OK in Stellarium, but Windows users will have an ugly time reading the readme.txt if it uses *nix-style newlines.

===Need hosting?===

If you have a landscape you would like to share but have no web-space to put it, email [[User:matthewg42|me]] and I'll put it on [http://porpoisehead.net/ my site].

===See also===
*[[Landscape Rotation]] - how to set landscape rotation so that a certain point is due north

==Tools==
The following tools may be useful to people who wish to create their own landscapes:

{| cellpadding=2 border=1
| width=15% | '''Program''' || width=20% | '''Platform(s)''' || width=15% | '''License''' || width=40% | '''Notes'''
|-
||[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html Autostitch]
|| win32; Linux (using wine)
|| Shareware/demo
|| Looks like it produces good results. Registered version includes extra types of projection. No sourcecode.
|-
||[http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ Hugin]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
|| Hugin is a nice GUI for Panorama Tools
|-
||[http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/ Panorama Tools]
|| Linux; FreeBSD; MacOSX; win32
|| GPL
||
|}

[[Category:Landscapes]][[Category:Customization]]

Quickstart guide

2010-03-20T21:56:51Z

Matthewg42: Reverted edits by Dzingis (Talk); changed back to last version by Matthewg42

===Set the right location===

Set your location first! The default location is Paris, France (unless someone has re-packaged Stellarium and changed the default). Press F6 or click on the appropriate icon in the left tool bar to open the Location Window.You can select your location by clicking on the map, by searching for a nearby city, or by entering your longitude, latitude and altitude manually by creating a new location. One way to determine your precise location anywhere in the world is the [http://location.crispcode.co.nz Stellarium Location Helper].

===Look around===
Use the mouse or arrow keys to look around.

===Zooming in and zooming out===
Use the page up and page down keys to zoom in and out.
Zooming on nebulas or planets is very interesting...

===Selecting objects===
Use the left mouse button to select an object, the right button to deselect the object and middle mouse button or spacebar to center on the selected object.

===Controlling time===
J slows down or reverses speed, L increases time speed, and K makes time return to normal speed. You can also use the time control buttons in the lower right of the screen.

===Play with the view options===
Try clicking the buttons in the bottom toolbar, which will appear if you roll the mouse cursor over the status bar at the bottom left of the screen.

===Opening the help menu===
Press the F1 key for help.

===Searching for an object by name===
Press F3 to open the search window. You can type in the name of a star, planet, constellation or nebula. As you type a list of matching objects is shown. Pressing TAB selects the next item in the completion list. Press RETURN or click the button in the search window to go to the object.

[[category:Guide]]

Help talk:Contents

2010-02-24T23:35:58Z

Matthewg42:

- Why does my Stellarium have a brown & unrealistic tint?

Could you send a screenshot?

- When I intalled a new version, I lost the stellar database and nedded to download all that hudge files again. Can you change that in the next version?

The re-written version of the catalogue downloader should be better for that (the old one was a bit broken), but I didn't try it myself yet. Hopefully it won't be necessary again. I know that if you copy just the files to the <user data directory>/stars/default it will use them without trying to download again. The problem you had might be because of the old stars.ini file.