Printing off maps from Stellarium

[Alfian]

This is probably "teaching granny to suck eggs" but I've just printed a chart off Stellarium. Goodness knows why I've never thought of doing it before, (star atlas?) but anyway its embarrassingly easy. There is one slight catch here for probably many people, I use Linux (mint18) on my machine but I'm sure MS and Mac will have equivalent software to do the same thing. In stellarium I chose the piece of sky I was interested in, zoomed it to the size I wanted then did a Screenshot from the toolbar. Rather than do a whole screen shot I could select the specific area. Save to file. Enter file using Gimp image manipulation software. Reverse image, now black on white. Adjust a little using curves and bingo , custom star map printed off. About 3 minutes beginning to end. This may help someone.

[nightfisher]

I cheat, i take stellarium out side with me on the laptop, at some stage it would be nice to run the mount from this

[alexwolf]

You can enable inversion of colors on the screenshots (it's an option within Stellarium) to get printable images.

[jACK101]

This could be very useful for me, thank you. I have tried to take a screenshot and save it as a Jpeg. This works, but when I ask Stellarium to reverse the colours it doesn't do it.

 

Any suggestions why?

 

Thanks

 

Jack