Create a customised landscape in Stellarium

How to personalise your view of the night sky in this free planetarium software

Stellarium is a fantastic piece of planetarium software and it’s invaluable for helping to plan observing sessions. The program is freely available to download from https://stellarium.org and shows you what you can see in the sky on any particular date and time from any location. The view it gives of the night sky is flexible, with the ability to control displays of stars, planets, labelling and more. As well as the view above you can also alter the view it shows of the horizon, which we’ll look at here. With careful tweaking of all the settings it can almost look like the real sky, so much so that some planetarium operators use it to project a view of the night sky across their dome. It’s useful for seeing what’s around…

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