Some video hardware will work OK with images with different image dimensions, but many will not display properly, suffer vastly reduced frame rates, and even crash the computer. IMPORTANT: Make sure all textures have dimensions which are integer powers of 2, i.e. If you are having problems, posting to the forums is a good way to get some advice. To find out more about how to create a sky culture, see the Stellarium User Guide, and examine existing sky cultures.

Make thumbnails 300x170 pixels to fit with the rest of the page. Please feel free to contribute your own custom sky culture here. zip file in the skycultures directory (if it's done right, a sub-directory should be created for each sky culture). Create a sub-directory called skycultures in your user directory (if it doesn't exist).Browse to your User Data Directory, which varies according to your operating system.

Please follow this procedure to install a sky culture package: zip file for a sky culture from this page, you need to install it in Stellarium.

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