user contributed landscapes
We have landscapes for the seven continents (in the seven continent model) - all, including from Antarctica!
landscapes:
Europe
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Drei Schwestern, Fürstentum Liechtenstein |
0.9+ |
| Marcel Marxer |
GNU GPL |
English |
| This landscape was taken from the the peak of Drei Schwestern, a mountain top in Liechtenstein. The view includes parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and beyond Lake Constance (Bodensee) even a piece of Germany. File size is about 2.2 MB. |
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Bahia de Cádiz, Spain |
0.10+ |
| José Codejón |
N/A |
English |
| A new bridge is being built across de bay. The 360° panorama image was taken at noon of September 10th, 2012, from the pier of the small marina just closed to the Cadiz head of the bridge.
The final picture is the result of stitching 11 frames, taken out of a 63 seconds full HD video, using PhotoStitch and Gimp 2.6.8. |
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Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, England |
0.9+ |
| Ian Pegler |
N/A |
English |
| The Tor with its iconic Tower of St. Michael is one of the most recognisable landmarks in England.
At the cross-quarter day nearest the Celtic festival of Samhain (early November time) the Sun sets as it passes by the doorway of the tower.
The famous St. Michael ley-line runs through here. (3.6MB) |
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Raisting Crop Circle, Germania |
0.10+ |
| Alfred G. Fischer |
CC ND |
English |
| Panorama from within 2014 crop circle near Raisting Radome, Bavaria, Germany, 50 kilometres away from Munich, beside the earth station of the US-firm "Emerging Markets Communications Inc. (EMC)". |
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St Peter's Square (Vatican) |
0.10+ |
| Gianfranco Mazzani |
N/A |
English |
| This is a complete high resolution panoramic view of the St Peter's Square, City of Vatican.
Gianfranco Mazzani photographed this panorama in july 2004 by using a Nikon Coolpix 8700, and stitched
the original 10 pictures together into a spherical panorama using Hugin program. The panorama has been
than cutted into 8 alfa channel pictures and re-dimensioned the width to 2048 pixel and then dimensioned
the height to 32 cm by using Photoschop elements 2. |
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Alps from Signols (TO, Italy) |
0.10+ |
| Emiliano |
N/A |
English |
| This is a complete high resolution panoramic view of the Alps from Signols (TO, Italy).
Emiliano photographed this panorama in july 2020 by using a Canon EOS 7D, and stitched
the original 34 pictures together into a spherical panorama using Autopano Giga. The panorama has been
than cutted into 8 alfa channel pictures and re-dimensioned the width to 1024 pixel.
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Pico do Areeiro |
0.9+ |
| Filipe Gomes |
N/A |
English |
| This is a panoramic view of the Pico do Areeiro, the second highest point of the island. Madeira Island - Portugal. |
| Screenshot not available |
Ares, Galicia, Spain |
0.9+ |
| Rubén Castiñeiras Lorenzo |
N/A |
English |
| Ares is a small fishing village in Galicia, in the NW of Spain, close to the city of Ferrol. The 360 degree image was taken at the noon of August 6th, 2007, just in front of the "Paseo Rosalía de Castro". It has been made with 17 photos, stitched with Hugin 0.7 beta 4 and retouched with the Gimp 2.2.17. |
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Bois du Cazier à Marcinelle/Charleroi, Belgium |
0.10+ |
| Alain Bastin |
N/A |
English, French |
| The Bois du Cazier, abbreviated form of "société anonyme des Charbonnages du Bois du Cazier à Marcinelle", is a former colliery located in Marcinelle, currently section of Charleroi, Belgium. On August 8, 1956, a fire killed 262 people. The site was inscribed in 2012 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site during the 36th session of the World Heritage Committee with three other coal mines in Wallonia as major mining sites in Wallonia. In 2017, the Bois du Cazier site was listed as a European Heritage Label. |
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Bortniki, Russia |
0.10+ |
| Nikita Vinogradov |
N/A |
English |
| A realistic view of a rural area with a traditional wooden house, captured in a 360-degree panorama format.
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Calanais I (Callanish) Avenue, Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland |
0.9+ |
| Grahame Gardner |
N/A |
English |
| Callanish is arguably the finest megalithic monument in the British Isles, and is just the largest site in a vast complex of interconnected monuments designed to observe the southern major standstills of the moon. From this position at the end of the avenue, the moon is seen to set behind the rocky outcrop of Cnoc-an-Tursa, only to 're-gleam' in the centre of the main circle a short time afterwards. (4MB) |
| Screenshot not available |
Caniga Country |
0.9+ |
| Andrea Pittalis |
N/A |
English |
| This landscape was taken from the Caniga Country, near Sassari in Sardinia, Italy. |
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Cuevas del Negro, Andalucia |
0.9+ |
| Peter Lynch |
N/A |
English |
| A nearly flat rural landscape in southern Spain. The site has very dark skies and a view down to about 3° to the south. |
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Cocentaina, Spain |
0.9+ |
| Angel Juan Martínez |
N/A |
English |
| This is a panoramic view from the roof of the Secondary School of Cocentaina, a little town of the Pais Valencià (Spain), in the mountains that are between Valencia and Alicante, where I teach Astronomy with the help of Stellarium. |
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Cologne, Barbarossaplatz, Rooftop, Germany |
0.10+ |
| Frank Hell |
© |
English |
| Panorama taken on 4th of August 2019 at Barbarossaplatz, Cologne, Germany. About 1500 meters
away from the Cologne Cathedral at 27 meters above the city's elevation level. The panorama
has been heavily idealized in the editing process: many buildings making up the skyline were
replaced manually with higher resolution photographs and objects blocking the view were removed
or reduced. The horizon was carefully isolated and provided with an illumination layer for a
beautiful silhouette in night view.
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Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland |
0.9+ |
| Friedrich Noelle, Barry Gerdes |
N/A |
English |
| Friedrich Noelle took a nice panorama of Observatory Hill, Edinburgh which Barry converted into a Stellarium landscape. |
| Screenshot not available |
English Garden, Munich, Germany |
0.9+ |
| Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris |
N/A |
English |
| This high resolution landscape was taken in April 2007 by Rob. Johan helped with the post production. The result is a very high quality landscape. |
| Screenshot not available |
English Garden, Munich, Germany |
0.9+ |
| Rob Spearman, Johan Meuris |
N/A |
English |
| The original English Garden landscape was re-constructed by Barry Gerdes as an old_style landscape. This means that it can be used with video hardware which cannot cope with single very large texture files, and yet preserves the resolution of the landscape (by splitting the images into multiple files). Try this is the original English Garden landscapes doesn't load on your computer. |
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Épendes Observatory, Fribourg, Switzerland |
0.10+ |
| Nicolas Martignoni |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English |
| The Épendes Observatory (46°45′45″N 7°08′22″E) is located near the city of Fribourg, Switzerland.
The images for this landscape were taken in August 2006. This landscape (old style format) is intended to be used on older configurations, where spherical landscape (above) doesn't appear because of low memory on the graphic chip. File size is about 2.4 MB.
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Épendes Observatory, Fribourg, Switzerland |
0.10+ |
| Nicolas Martignoni |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English |
| The Épendes Observatory (46°45′45″N 7°08′22″E) is located near the city of Fribourg, Switzerland.
The images for this landscape were taken in August 2006. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096). File size is about 2.4 MB.
Note: If you have problems with this landscape (landscape doesn't appear because of low memory on the graphic chip), use the corresponding old style landscape below or use a smaller resolution (see the README file in the package). |
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Fenino, Russia |
0.10+ |
| Jerfolld |
N/A |
English |
| Cozy russian village, 50 km northwest from Tver. |
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GAS GAO, Russia |
0.10+ |
| Andrey Kuznetsov |
N/A |
English |
| Russia, Caucasus. The astronomical science station on the mountain Shadjatmaz. This is the view from amateur's observatory (by Andrey Kuznetsov, Sergey Kiselev). |
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Gnevsdorf Weir, Prignitz, Germany |
0.12+ |
| Torsten Narjes |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English, German |
| This panorama was taken in May 2014 on the Gnevsdorf Weir island (52°54′25.5″N, 11°53′00.0″E) at the confluence point of rivers Elbe and Havel (Gnevsdorfer Vorfluter) in Gnevsdorf near Ruehstaedt, a village famous for its large population of breeding white storks during spring and summer. File size: 10.3 MB. Resolution: 4096x2048 pixels. |
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Granholmstoppen Summer, Sweden |
0.10+ |
| Leo Sutic |
CC BY-NC-SA |
English |
| This landscape was taken during a summer evening from the top of Granholmstoppen, an artificial hill in north-western Stockholm, Sweden. |
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Granholmstoppen Winter, Sweden |
0.10+ |
| Leo Sutic |
CC BY-NC-SA |
English |
| This landscape was taken during a winter night from the top of Granholmstoppen, an artificial hill in north-western Stockholm, Sweden. |
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Gurnigel, Switzerland |
0.9+ |
| Martin Mutti |
N/A |
English |
| This is the site of the Bern Astronomical Society's observing site. |
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Hildesheim Panoramaweg, Germany |
0.12+ |
| Torsten Narjes |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English, German |
| This panorama was taken in August 2016 on Panoramaweg road at Rottsberg hill in Hildesheim, about 3 km west of the city centre (52°08′11.3″N, 9°54′44.5″E). The photo shooting site, located 115 m above the Hildesheimer Börde lowlands, offers an outstanding view upon nearly the whole city. File size: 10.7 MB. Resolution: 4096x2048 pixels.
Also available in higher resolutions 8192x4096 (38.6 MB) and 16k old style (123.1 MB). |
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Nuraghe Iloi, Sardinia, Italy |
0.12+ |
| Giuseppe Putzolu |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English, Italian, Sardinian |
| Nuraghe Iloi is a megalithic sardinian edifice in the town of Sedilo, a village in the center of Sardinia (Italy). Sedilo is famous for s'Ardia, the horse race in honour of Saint Constantine the Emperor which takes place every year in Sedilo in the evening of July 6 and is repeated on the morning of the 7th. |
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KAIRA High-Band Antenna, Finland |
0.10+ |
| Derek McKay-Bukowski |
N/A |
English |
| KAIRA (Kilpisjarvi Atmospheric Imaging Receiver Array) is a project of the Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory. KAIRA is a dual array of omni-directional VHF radio antennas, principally funded by the University of Oulu in Finland. It makes extensive use of the proven LOFAR antenna and digital signal-processing hardware, and can act as either a stand-alone passive receiver, as a receiver for the EISCAT VHF incoherent scatter radar in Tromso, or for use in conjunction with other Fenno-Scandinavian VHF experiments. In additional to being a powerful observing instrument in its own right, KAIRA will act as a pathfinder for technologies to be used in the proposed EISCAT_3D radar system. |
| Screenshot not available |
La Guardia |
0.9+ |
| Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta |
N/A |
English |
| La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008 at 12:38 p.m. |
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Ponta da Piedade, Algarve, Lagos, Portugal |
0.9+ |
| Johan |
N/A |
English |
| Johan photographed this panorama in June 2006 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. You see sandstone cliffs on the Atlantic coast of southern Portugal, a lighthouse, and a natural bridge. |
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Port of La Guardia, Galicia, Spain |
0.9+ |
| Quiero Regresar a mi Planeta |
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
English |
| La Guardia is a fishing village in Galicia, in the NW. of Spain. This landscape was taken on the 19/07/2008. Kmz file |
| Screenshot not available |
Leist, Switzerland |
0.9+ |
| Bernd Lang |
N/A |
English |
| This landscape was developed from a panoramic picture of the Leist in Switzerland (2222m).
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Top of Water Tower of Lueneburg, Germany |
0.9+ |
| Uwe Prolingheuer |
N/A |
English |
| This is a panoramic view from the top of old Water Tower 56m above ground, constructed 1906/07, in Lueneburg, a town with many retained medieval houses. Northern Germany. |
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Machrie Moor 5, Isle of Arran, Scotland |
0.9+ |
| Grahame Gardner |
N/A |
English |
| This delightful little double-concentric stone circle is the first site you come to when visiting the Machrie Moor complex of megalithic sites on Arran. Although not the most spectactular site in the group, it is one of the most complete and has good views. (7.3MB) |
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Mitchell's Fold stone circle, Shropshire, England |
0.9+ |
| Ian Pegler |
N/A |
English |
| This wonderful ancient stone circle stands on a plateau amid the rolling Shropshire hills and is loved by walkers, dowsers and Wiccans alike. April 2010 - new version uploaded, featuring improved centre camera position based on Alexander Thom's geometry and improved alignments. (1.8MB) |
| Screenshot not available |
Ovindoli, Italy |
0.9+ |
| Pierluigi Panunzi |
N/A |
English |
| Ovindoli is a famous ski resort in central Italy. |
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Frantoio Rodiano, Italy |
0.9+ |
| Christian Waldvogel |
GFDL |
English |
| The Frantoio Rodiano (Rodiano oil press) is situated on the foot of Mount Gargano in Puglia / Italy. Just a few kilometers uphill lies Monte Sant'Angelo, the famous stop for christian pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. Stargazing has been kin to this region for milleniae: the oldest graves found in the Frantoio's vicinity date back to pre-etruscan times, and the famous Castel del Monte, an astronomical observation in itself, is not far either. The spherical landscape was created from 8 images taken on September 20th, 2010, at 1707, from the uppermost terrace of the Frantoio Rodiano. The landscape comes in three resolutions (1024 / 2048 / 4096). |
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Sa Calobra Serpentinen, Mallorca, Spain |
0.12+ |
| Andreas |
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
English, German |
| Sa Calobra is a small village in the Escorca municipality on the northwest coast of the Spanish Balearic
island of Majorca. The port village is a popular destination for coach trips and road cyclists and is
accessible by a single winding road, designed by Italian-Spanish engineer Antonio Parietti and opened
in 1933, which features many hairpin bends and a 270° spiral bridge called the tie knot.
The climb is officially called the Coll del Reis or the Col de Cal Reis, the pass on 682 metres
(2,238 ft) altitude, though it is often referred to by the name of the village at its base and was
built and is considered to be "as close as one could get to a perfect road for motorsport".
Unconventionally the road was engineered with tourists in mind. |
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Sahlenburg Beach, Cuxhaven, Germany |
0.12+ |
| Torsten Narjes |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English, German |
| This panorama was taken in April 2014 in Cuxhaven on Sahlenburg Beach, beach access point Wernerwaldstrasse (53°51′33.5″N, 8°35′22.3″E). Cuxhaven is a well-known seaside resort and harbour town in northern Germany.
The Wernerwald forest (SE) is visible, as well as the Wadden Sea with the Isle of Neuwerk (NW). File size: 10.9 MB. Resolution: 4096x2048 pixels. |
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Santu Antinu (Sedilo), Sardinia, Italy |
0.12+ |
| Giuseppe Putzolu |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English, Italian, Sardinian |
| The sanctuary of Saint Constantine is a country sanctuary of Sardinia, located on a hill called Monte Isei, in Sedilo a village in the center of Sardinia (Italy). The church, the fulcrum of the sanctuary, it's protected by ancient walls and it stands within a large sloping area, inside the hill, from which you can enjoy the panoramic view of the nearby Lake Omodeo. |
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Mémorial de la Ferme de Richemont, Saucauts, France |
0.10+ |
| Rubeluta Valentin |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English |
| Observation site at 25 Km from Bordeaux — France (a fine mask of light has been added to N where the city is).
This place is located at 44.62 N 0.63 E and it is the observation place of the astronomy club: AG33.
This landscape is 4096 pixels wide and file size is about 25 MB. The 2048 pixels version — 6.7 MB, can be downloaded here. |
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Schmoelen Dune, Doemitz (Elbe), Germany |
0.12+ |
| Torsten Narjes |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English, German |
| This panorama was taken in April 2015 on the windward side of Schmoelen Dune in the Loecknitz/Elbe valley near Doemitz (53°07′25.0″N, 11°17′34.1″E). With its size of 2 km in length, 600 m in width, and a height of more than 30 m above ground level, Schmoelen Dune is Europe's largest inland dune. File size: 12.7 MB. Resolution: 4096x2048 pixels. |
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Hauptplatz Schwyz, Switzerland |
0.10+ |
| Rolf Inderbitzin |
CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 |
English, German |
| Schwyz is the capital of the Canton of the same name in Switzerland and is located together with the municipalities
Ingenbohl, Steinen and Lauerz in a valley in the Swiss Prealps. The main square of the City of Schwyz lies at 516 m above sea level.
Schwyz is dominated by its landmark: the Great Mythen (1898 m) and the Little Mythen (1811 m).
For more information see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwyz etc.
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Šentvid, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
0.9+ |
| Klemen Blokar, Dejan Kolarič, Ida Kraševec, Andrej Lajovic |
CC BY-SA 3.0 |
English |
| View from the roof of the observatory of Gymnasium Šentvid, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Seppensen, Buchholz in der Nordheide, Germany |
0.12+ |
| Torsten Narjes |
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
English, German |
| This panorama was taken in May 2014 on a meadow between the Distelweg football playground and the horse pasture at Thomasfeldweg in Buchholz-Seppensen (53°18′11.5″N, 9°51′54.9″E). Seppensen is a rural part of Buchholz, a 40,000-inhabitant town in the German state of Lower Saxony approximately 30 km SW of Hamburg. File size: 11.4 MB. Resolution: 4096x2048 pixels. |
| Screenshot not available |
River Rivelin, Sheffield, UK |
0.9+ |
| Jan Wedekind |
CC SA-2.0 |
English |
| This is a 270° fisheye panorama created from 40 photos using Hugin. It shows the River Rivelin in Sheffield in the middle of April 2007. The fringes (twigs and tree tops) where dimmed out using The Gimp. The overexposed parts of the horizon have been removed. Copyright (C) 2007, Jan Wedekind, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License 2.0 |
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Sighthill stone circle, Glasgow, Scotland |
0.9+ |
| Grahame Gardner |
N/A |
English |
| Sighthill stone circle is a modern stone ring constructed in 1979 by amateur astronomer and SF writer Duncan Lunan.
Located next to the M8 motorway in Glasgow city centre, yet with surprisingly good views, the circle has alignments to the solsticial solar rises and settings and the lunar standstills.
Alignments to the rising of Rigel are included for 1979 AD and 1800 BC. The circle has a central stone, which is not shown in this landscape.
As of 2014 the area is scheduled for redevelopment, although the Council have promised that the stone circle will be relocated somehwere in the vicinity of its present location.
It was still there at winter solstice 2015 when this NEW landscape was created. (13MB) |
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Stintino, Italy |
0.9+ |
| aid85 |
N/A |
English |
| High resolution 360° landscape taken at "LaPelosa" beach in Stintino (SS) Sardinia \ Italy - Europe \ Mediterranean Sea. |
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Stonehenge |
0.9+ |
| Hugo Jenks |
N/A |
English |
| Was it an observatory? Yes indeed it was! The alignment of the monument with the summer solstice sunrise has been well known for many years.
The alignment with the winter solstice sunset may have been more significant. For the first time, many additional alignments are published,
and are detailed here: www.brontovox.co.uk These alignments demonstrate that Stonehenge was primarily
a functional scientific instrument, used for measuring angles. The angles of interest were the rising and setting bearings of the sun, moon,
and stars. It was therefore possible to map the entire visible sky. |
| Screenshot not available |
Stonehenge, England |
0.9+ |
| Fernando |
N/A |
English |
| This landscape depicts Stonehenge - the famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, Southern England. |
| Screenshot not available |
T1M terrasse, Pic du Midi Observatory, France |
0.9+ |
| Sylvain Rondi |
N/A |
English |
| Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the terrasse of the professional 106cm telescope at Pic du Midi Observatory (France). |
| Screenshot not available |
T60 dome, Pic du Midi Observatory, France |
0.9+ |
| Sylvain Rondi |
N/A |
English |
| Sylvain photographed this panorama in February 2007 and stitched it together into a spherical panorama that can be used with Stellarium. This is the panoramic view from the amateur 60cm telescope dome from T60 Association, installed at Pic du Midi Observatory. |
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Tishinka, Russia |
0.9+ |
| Dmitri Ardashev |
N/A |
English |
| This is a small village between Moscow's and Kaluga's regions, in 130 km south-west of Moscow (55°18'32.46N, 36°26'42.06E, alt=195). |
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Amstelveen, The Netherlands |
0.9+ |
| Jeroen Adolfse |
N/A |
English |
| This landscape shows the tulipfields in spring (may 2008) in Schagerbrug, North Holland. It's an old_style landscape. (file is 4.5 Mb).
A higher resolution file (20MB) is also available.
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| Screenshot not available |
Uvalno, Czech Republic |
0.9+ |
| Ivo Burdik |
CC BY 3.0 |
English |
| A view from a garden in the village of Uvalno, Czech Republic. |
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Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway |
0.10+ |
| Steinar Midtskogen |
N/A |
English |
| Steinar Midtskogen sent this huge (17 MiB!) spherical landscape image of Voksenlia, Oslo, Norway (59°58'14N, 10°38'57E, alt=348m). (Currently not working with version 0.9.0). |
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Vonarskarð, Passage of Hope, Iceland |
0.9+ |
| Sveinn í Felli |
N/A |
English |
| This is the geographical center of Iceland, a barren pass between glaciers. Being sheltered from southern vinds by the huge Vatnajökull glacier, a great cold mass which then eliminates most humididy from the air, makes the place unusually good for stargazing. Old-style landscape, resolution is a bit low. (File is 1.1 Mb) |
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Woodhenge near Stonehenge |
0.9+ |
| Hugo Jenks |
N/A |
English |
| Woodhenge near Stonehenge was constructed around 2200 BC. It comprised numerous wooden posts set into the chalky ground. These posts of course decayed, and their positions today are marked with concrete cylinders.
The posts are arranged, in plan view, as a series of concentric egg shapes. The axis of the egg shapes aligns approximately with summer solstice sunrise. |
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Urania Observatory, Vienna, Austria |
0.9+ |
| Michael Prokosch |
CC BY-ND 3.0 |
English |
| The Urania Observatory (48°12′41.88″N 16°23′1.53″E) is located right in the middle of the city of Vienna, capital of Austria.
Built in 1910 under emporer Franz Joseph I. it's the countries oldest non-scientifical observatory still in use for people's education. This landscape was taken in August 2011.
If you are not distracted by the stars, you can even see St. Stephan's cathedral, the Viennese Giant Wheel and the Danube Canal. File size is about 11.5 MB. |
