Inkscape Star Map Tutorial: How to Make Custom Night Sky Art with Free Stellarium Charts

****Right click download feature in Stellarium has been disabled. Screen grab the desired area instead please. **** Inkscape step-by-step beginner-intermediate tutorial on how to create a custom Star Chart - Night Sky Star Map wall art as seen on Etsy. Follow along in this Inkscape screen capture showing how to:

1. Use Stellarium for star chart map data. *Right click download feature has been disabled. Screen grab desired area instead.
2. Create specific dimensions to your map and poster/ wall art border.
3. Make a vector file from the Stellarium data inside of Inkscape.
4. Clean up the star map using Trace Bitmap and the Bezier Pen tool in Inkscape
5. Add an azimuth spherical grid over your star map with the Polar Grid tool.
6. Clip and Crop your stars to fit the night sky background.

My goal for this channel is to create a community where we can share graphic design skills, tips and shortcuts with a focus on using free or low cost software and tools available to everyone.

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[stevo]

WOW! Really nice vid Rick...TY very much! As a side note you met your wife exactly 2 months to the day that the love of my life passed away. We had 40 years together. I hope you and yours have many happy years together also.

[reofebrah]

hi, i can't download or save with right click

[patriciagleve]

Aww - 'the date I met my wife' - Romantic ❤ (with a capital R). PS -thanks for the tutorial.👍

[samlenlap]

I forgot to press like so came back.😉👍

[serpantinthewild]

great tutorial, it will be great if you do tutorial about making interstellar objects like a nebula, galaxy etc :D

[kaifscarbrow]

4:46 Beetle Juice. LMAOO. Very cool. Thanks for making this

[alsaifsiddiqui]

Hey brother ! Awsome video. But please tell us the font details of the Date time and venue you chose

[gamzkalimba]

Nice tutorial, keep going man.. new sub here.

[dejanstojkovic]

Well, when I click right click there is no option for saving images. Do you know what's the problem? I've justed all data (place, date, time), get the sky but there is no option for saving the image.

[manda]

Thank you for the amazing tutorial. Btw, you should beware - you said "betelguese" 3 times! 😂😂

[rajshah]

Thanks for the tut. love it! I can't get the lattice deformation to work properly. When the move from the center the "circles" don't move from their position the rest of it does. I suspect may be because I do not have the perimeter option.

[firefromheaven]

would it be possible to make a tutorial on how your have your inkscape workspace set up, what each tool is and what they do? i just downloaded it and i am having a hard time following along with your videos :(

[rajshah]

just wanted to see if it is possible for you to do another night sky tutorial with a different background or style

[Tashall]

Shame the right click has been disabled, I tried a screenshot, and taking into Illustrator, but Illustrator can't seem to pick up the detail!

[alsaifsiddiqui]

I've designed the whole thing, now how do I get it printed ? I tried saving it but it just shows a blank page

[anisajaia]

Hello, I did not use right-click, what I suppose to do? 😕

[RaghavRawat]

Hi, I am not able to download the image via right click. Is it same for you?

[samtensherab]

I cant seem to download from the Stellarium web

[tanalee]

I'm guessing that since they disabled right-click, they really don't want us taking screenshots, either. Brings up an ethical issue for me. It's my mother's fault. : (

[ANNYMUS-rltb]

bro i cant save image from stellarium web