I am trying to make a custom panorama. I know the file is correct because it works in Stellarium and it requires the same thing.
I have copied the file to
<top level of SD card>/SkySafari Pro/Panoramas/
and
<top level of SD card>/SkySafari Pro/Horizon Panoramas/
because this https://skysafariastronomy.com/support/manual/horizon_sky.shtml mentions both folders. But I still do not see my panorama in the app to select.
Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?
Cey,
From Settings > Help
You can create your own horizon panorama - for instance, an image of your own back yard, or your favorite observing site. You can then import it into SkySafari, to show the sky as it realistically appears from your location.
To do this, first create a panorama using your digital camera, and a panorama-stitching program like Adobe Photoshop, Canon PhotoStitch, or DoubleTake for Mac OS X. Resize your panorama image to dimensions of exactly 2048 pixels wide x 1024 pixels tall.
The vertical sweep of the image represents 180 degrees of altitude, from the zenith at +90° (top of the image), to the horizon at 0° (middle of the image) to the nadir at -90° (bottom).
The horizontal direction on your image represents 360° of azimuth, starting with north (0°) at the left edge, east (90°) one quarter of the way across, south (180°) halfway across, west (270°) three fourths of the way across, and finally wrapping around again to north (360° or 0°) at the right edge.
When you're done photoshopping, save your panorama as a 32-bit (8 bits per channel) RGBA color image file in PNG format. Make sure your image contains an alpha or transparency layer that accurately indicates the parts of your panorama that are opaque (the ground, trees, buildings, etc.) versus the parts that are transparent (the sky).
Confirm the above.
Custom horizons will now go in a new folder location on Android.
Storage>Android>>Data>.com.simulationcurriculum.skysafari6pro>Files>Horizon Panoramas
Thanks!
Using the Google app, Files. I navigate to Android>>Data but I do not see .com.simulationcurriculum.skysafari6pro. What is interesting is that I do see .com.simulationcurriculum.skysafari6plus which I used to have before I upgraded to Pro. Is there a security reason that I cannot see the skysafari6pro folder?
Thanks
Cey,
You can manually create the required folder(s).
Thanks!
I cannot create the folder because it says it already exists.
Cey
Another user posted the following:
Looks like Android 11 locks down the internal Android Data folder. See this thread
To fix it get an app from the Google store to allow access to the folder. See this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/j3zgmm/managing_files_in_the_androiddata_folder_on/
Thank you that worked!
Just want to say I love SkySafari. It is the best. I even run it under Bluestacks on Windows.