Stellarium, make it a little more how it is.

[AlexB67]

cracking idea alex, are you going to use some kind of coding to degrade hubble style picture according to type of telescope used or similar. Would be a fab bit of work if you could manage that.

The higher quality pictures I have as base, the more fine tune control I have with the algorithms I can apply, the one I used is not actually that high quality to begin with, the more pixels or higher resolution as a starting point the better. I hope to be able to get them if I can get the support to use those materials , but I'll try and cross that bridge when I get to it , when I feel I have good base with the code that I have, and see where it goes. I guess it is a bit about building bridges when it comes to that kind of thing, perhaps the Bristol astro society may not be a bad place to do some fishing and try at some stage.

[Schorhr]

I know that it will never match anything near an actual observation, but at least lp can be simulated already. All it would need are a few filters to simulate the impression of an actual telescope.

It's a simulation, so why not go the last step? It would be useful for beginners.

No one wants to replace the regular color view :-)

[AlexB67]

I know that it will never match anything near an actual observation, but at least lp can be simulated already. All it would need are a few filters to simulate the impression of an actual telescope.

It's a simulation, so why not go the last step? It would be useful for beginners.

No one wants to replace the regular color view :-)

Can you elaborate a bit ? In particular not sure what you mean by replacing the colour, the idea being that objects are largely grey scale when observed, not that I am applying a 100% greyscale, and as aperture goes up it should reveal more subtle colouring in some cases depending on object ( trying to account for source colour emitted and wavelength observed is in my plan also). Perhaps I am a bit slow to follow the point, 3 cans of lager on a Friday not helping