GPS positioning, accelerometers control of the direction of view in the sky.

3D rendering of the major solar system planets and their satellites.

accurate simulation of stars extinction, and atmosphere refraction.

realistic landscape and atmosphere with sunrise, sunset and light pollution simulation.

artificial satellites, including the International Space Station.

asterisms and illustrations of the constellations for several sky cultures.a catalog of many nebulae and galaxies, with pictures for some of them.a catalog of over 600,000 stars displayed as a real time zoomable sky map.This award-winning astronomy application is finally available on iOS featuring: The sensor control will help you to identify a star in just a few seconds, just by pointing the phone at the sky! It shows a realistic and accurate night sky map, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Stellarium Mobile Sky Map is a fully-featured planetarium for your phone. google earth or peak finder? I used Peakfinder to establish the accurate bearing to a nearby hill in the picture, then it was fairly straight forward.The most realistic sky map to observe stars, planets and constellations! Is there a secret of finding this number easy in order to match cardinal points to my photo or the only way is by trial and error.?ĭo you have any land marks that you can measure the bearing to on e.g. Me standing straight levelled with horizon or placing my camera on a tripod and place it like a telescope looking up in the sky towards North?ī) the famous cardinal points and the line angle_rotatez= in the ini file.

I have done some reading and watch videos but I still have a couple of questions before I begin and hopefully some people from here could help!Ī) how should I take my photo. So I decided to bring to Stellarium my own landscape and my FOV so I can know exactly which targets are on sight and at what time. I purposely choose a top floor because of my astrophotography passion in order to have a decent field of view, but my balcony has walls on one side and on top. Since I live in a flat I do most of my imaging from my balcony.

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