Everest Landscape for Stellarium
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Description
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Amazing parorama of the summit of Mount Everest, 8.85 km above sea level.
Roddy Mackenzie, who climbed the mountain in 1989, captured the image.  
http://www.everestviews.com/


Files
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This file (readme.txt) should have come in a zip file with some others
Here is a listing of all the files which should be in the zip file:

  landscapes/everest/readme.txt		(this file)
  landscapes/everest/andscapes.ini
  landscapes/everest/verest.png


Installation & Use
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Unzip the landscape package file in your <user_settings>/landscapes 
directory. The location varies depending on your operating
system.  See the Stellarium User Guide for per-platform details.

Once you have installed the landscape, open Stellarium and go to the
configuration dialog.  Select the landscapes tab, and select the landscape
from the list of available landscapes.


Credits
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Image (C) 1989, Roddy Mackenzie; http://www.everestviews.com/
Processed for use with Stellarium by Makc <makc.the.great@gmail.com>


License
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Distributed for use with Stellarium with the permission of Roddy Mackenzie:

Delivered-To: makc.the.great@gmail.com
From: Roderick Mackenzie <roddy@himachal.com>
To: Makc <makc.the.great@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: everest panorama question (To: Roddy Mackenzie)

Dear Sir,

Please go ahead and distribute with the web address featuring clearly.

With best regards,

Roddy Mackenzie

Makc wrote:

> Hello there.
>
> I had a bounce from prints@himachal.com so I tried to get whatever
> contacts I could; please forward this to Roddy Mackenzie, if you know
> him.
>
> This is inquiry about image featured as Astronomy Picture of the Day
> on 2005 March 6, http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050306.html
>
> Background: there is a nice opensource planetarium software,
> "Stellarium", and one of its features is rendering the sky over (or
> rather behind) photographic panorama. For example, see a screenshot
> here http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/img/screenshots/planets.jpg
>
> Question: I would like your permission for distributing low resolution
> (around 2..3K pixels wide) version of your image with this software.
> They will, of course, give you full credits and link to your shop,
> http://www.everestviews.com/ This way, more people will know about
> your artwork.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Please respond with full quote.
>
> P.S.: do you remember that your domain name expires in 10 days? I bet not.

