Tuesday, January 03, 2012

ALMA landscape completed

I made a landscape profile for the Stellarium software for the Atacama Large Millimetre Array telescope. This was after I saw the wonderful panorama photo by Stéphane Guisard on APOD.

Did the bulk of the editing on John Smallberries in Fireworks producing a 4 panel display with each image being 512 x 256 pixels. It works pretty good. On the netbook, no less! Aspect ratio is nearly perfect. I'm not convinced the rotation angle is correct but who cares. And I need to fine-tune the fog angle...



Ooh. The SMC and LMC!

This was my second cut at it. I had tried in Union, at Mom's, over the holidays, with John Littlejohn (the same netbook), using Paint.NET but just had not been able to get it to work. The images wouldn't display. I didn't investigate why, whether the files were too large, or the wrong dimensions, or there was some PNG setting I had set wrong.

Fine now. Feels like I'm there which is pretty cool. And a little eerie.

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