OHM Gaia Celestial Sphere 1.0

[lccrane]

lccrane submitted a new addon:

Gaia Celestial Sphere - A new celestial sphere made from NASA's Gaia data

Here's a new celestial sphere I made from resized Gaia data to look as realistic as possible.
Source of the input data: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4851/

To install place it into your [Orbiter root]\Textures\csphere folder and add the following line to the bkgimage.cfg found at [Orbiter root]\config\CSphere\

Gaia 8k|csphere\gaia8k

Screenshots:

Milkyway rising over Italy

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Orion rising in the East over London (left) and Paris...

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NASA's Gaia data

what do you mean? Gaia is an ESA mission, the data are ESA (and open), not NASA's. Please credit properly the work of others.

your source is a NASA publication from non-NASA data, which does not transfer the authorship, never... same like when we speak about SPICE, which is a wonderful format and library by JPL's NAIF team, but SPICE kernels are frequently produced by non-JPL teams (in particular Russian and European data when it is about planets and moons, even if later NASA produces some agregate kernels like DExxx, wthout speaking about kernels for non-NASA missions).