Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New Landscape for Nebraska Star Party campsite

2016-07-19 Thread Rustin L Haase
Yea, the hills are interesting. They are basicly ancient dunes of sand covered with a thin layer of grass. Add in a high water table (sometimes above ground) and you get this setting. Also the occasional small cactus, prairie flower, rattle snake, and coyote and you've got it. The people wh

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New Landscape for Nebraska Star Party campsite

2016-07-19 Thread Johan Meuris
Nice landscape, thanks Rustin! Interesting hills in Nebraska. johanmeuris.eu mobile: +32 494 14 79 23 e-mail: johan.meu...@gmail.com On 19 July 2016 at 01:21, Rustin L Haase wrote: > Hi Georg, > > Thanks for the detailed advice. I should be able to follow all of it

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New Landscape for Nebraska Star Party campsite

2016-07-18 Thread Rustin L Haase
Hi Georg, Thanks for the detailed advice. I should be able to follow all of it since it all makes sense to me. I'm not sure I will be able to make all the adjustments before I take off to the next Nebraska Star Party, but who knows. :-) (July 30th to Aug 6th for me) At that time I plan to mak

Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] New Landscape for Nebraska Star Party campsite

2016-07-18 Thread Georg Zotti
Hello Rustin! Thanks for sharing this set. I like well-aligned panos! Hints: The 16k landscape is too large for most users. landscapes larger than 4k should be made as tiled "old_style" landscape. Crop away the sky and split to 4096 or better 2048x2048, and make the ground&logo in high qualit

[Stellarium-pubdevel] New Landscape for Nebraska Star Party campsite

2016-07-18 Thread Rustin L Haase
Hi! I'm a regular attendee of the annual Nebraska Star Party, an annual gathering of astronomy fans at Merritt Reservoir, a state park near Valentine Nebraska (USA). We get a couple hundred attendees during the week-long event. It is fantastically dark there at night. http://www.nebraskastar