Create a sub-directory called landscapes in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).Browse to your User Data Directory, which varies according to your operating system.If you are using an earlier version of Stellarium, you can follow this procedure to install a landscape package:

Landscape packages created without this feature in mind may contain other files, such as alternative textures in different sizes. Note that while this makes installing landscapes easier, it may also cause you to overlook what else is included in the ZIP archive. It also lists the user-installed landscapes and allows you to remove them. When you press it, the 'Add/remove landscapes' window will appear.The 'Add/remove landscapes' button is at the bottom of the 'Landscape' tab.Open the 'Sky and viewing options' window by clicking on the appropriate button in the left button bar (or press the F4 key).If you have Stellarium 0.10.6 or later version, you can use the 'Add/remove landscapes' feature to install landscapes automatically: zip file for a landscape from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium. And when searching for that name in the desktop version, I get zero results.įorgive me if this is a beginner question, and I'm missing something fundamental.Įdited by aram12, 25 August 2020 - 05:35 PM.After you have downloaded the. But there is no such designation in the desktop version.

The naming convention between both versions of the software also confuses me.

I also seem to be seeing a completely different set of stars around Albaldah from each version of the software. But the desktop version never resolves the double star. For example, I can 'zoom in' and resolve Albaldah into a double star at around FOV.

Up to 18 I believe.īut it still seems that Stellarium web can 'see further' as it were. Mucking about with Stellarium I was confused at first that there the sky wasn't as populated in the desktop version (vs the web), but then found the 'packs' needed to load the higher magnitude stars. Just started my journey down the Astronomy hole, as it were.

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