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Originally Posted by sil
..... I guess most people just put up with moving their gear to avoid trees/buildings. But surely home observatories still have some obstructions so there must be something to do this. Starry nights has a custom horizon option but when i tried to use it, it had an alt limit so I couldnt use it to properly mask, that was a couple of years ago. Guess i should see if the current version has it any better.
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Hi Sil,
I also checked in Stellarium and there's nothing like that to mask the horizon with a specified azimuth range. I thought something could perhaps be cooked up with the occular extension to Stellarium (which I now know how to drive better), but unfortunately not through any user settings, so I sent a suggestion (yours) to (I believe) the developer of that extension to provide an option to grey-out the view
outside of a user specified Altitude Range & Azimuth Range - what I call Barn Doors, to simulate local obstructions like buildings, mountains, etc...
You never know.
Best
JA