This script takes a sky chart and a 360° panorama of an horizon and merges the sky chart to the horizon. This allows to view the sky chart in the context of your panorama. Through a 360° image viewer, or by importing the image in Stellarium, you can then take a look at your sky chart with your phone with AR/VR.
I created this code to see the ISS path of a pass in my horizon and plan my observations. Thanks to it, I can precisely see where the ISS will appear and what path it will follow in the sky.
The images should follow a specific format :
- Horizon panorama :
- 360° azimuth on the width of the image, from -180° (left) to +180° (right), with North in the center (although this can be changed with the
az_rangeargument in theunfold_hemispherefunction) - 180° altitude on the height of the image, from -90° (bottom) to +90° (top), with horizon in the center
- It can be created with the 360 Photo Sphere Camera Android app
- The sky must have been removed and made transparent (png image with transparence), with GIMP or Photoshop (or any other software)
- 360° azimuth on the width of the image, from -180° (left) to +180° (right), with North in the center (although this can be changed with the
- Sky chart :
- Polar map with North on top, and azimuth rotating counterclockwise (looking at the sky : East on the left, West on the right)
- Full 360° azimuth and 0°-90° altitude ranges
- Sky charts generated by Heavens-Above follow this format
By Aurélien Genin (https://github.com/AstroAure)
Copyright : CC-BY-SA