Bring GOOGLE MAPS Street View spherical images into STELLARIUM to perfectly plan your astro photos

Stellarium is a free multi-platform planetarium app that will let you perfectly plan all kinds of astrophotography images - from deep sky to landscape. And in order to plan photos with a landscape you can bring the spherical images from Google Maps Street View right into Stellarium for free. In this tutorial I show step by step how to do it.
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► EXAMPLE OF A WORKING "landscape.ini" FILE:
[landscape]
name = Babia Mountain
author = Google Maps
description = Babia Mountain
type = spherical
maptex = Street View 360.png
angle_rotatez=214
[location]
light_pollution = 3
atmospheric_extinction_coefficient = 0.27
atmospheric_temperature = 10
atmospheric_pressure = -1
planet = Earth
latitude = +49d34'23.0442"
longitude = +19d31'45.915"
altitude = 1725
timezone = Europe/Warsaw
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[@dw.in.michigan]

This will be a game changer for planning, at least with foreground subjects that are documented in Google. Thanks!
And yes, it would be nice to know how to import my own images into Stellarium, so please create a how-to video on that.

[@markwelsh9068]

Kamil, you post awesome content which is all immensely useful. Thank you for your efforts.

[@dawidwitulski5712]

Dziękuję pozdro z polski

[@DavidVerbossche]

This is brilliant!

[@nomecognome6125]

Hi, i followed all the steps but at the end when i choose my pano, the stellarium's default landscape disappears and my pano doesn't appear

[@pbgaspar]

Me 2 🤔😢

[@clipwat1511]

Amazing. Very useful. Thank you. 👍 🔥

[@matej.mlakar]

Great tutorial. Way less work than I had to do with my imports. Too bad that the night mode in Google Earth is way way off and the sky is in the wrong place, othwerwise it would also be a good tool for planing. I hope we will see someday a merged version of Google Earth and Stellarium :D.

[@Max.Vianna]

It didn't work for me. I got a purple screen when was supposed to be an Irish landscape.
Any ideia why?
PS: I was testing with a full image, without any photoshop chop.

[@OtherWorldExplorers]

Dude this is totally awesome!!!

[@kamilkp]

Yeah 😃

[@kalef1234]

Pretty neat! Thanks

[@nolho]

Thx... It's so cool !

[@3000txk]

Świetna sprawa.

[@ermescabas610]

Very easy .... 😂😂😂😂