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Stellarium displays photos of a few of the well known objects and most of the Messiers. These are photos added by a few people who took the time to prepare them.
Photos of any objects can be added. It requires a good square photo 64 x 64, 128 x 128, 256 x 256, 512 x 512 or 1024 x 1024 pixels and a bit of time to locate its corner coords (plate solve) and add this info to the json file.
Displaying photos this way is memory intensive and can slow the computer down with more than 100 or so photos added.
There will however be a feature some day to display the DSS objects of the whole sky. In fact the code is already there but it has not been activated yet for administative requirements.
To see what it will be like you can download the Virgo version from ESO. This is a much earlier version of Stellarium but does have the DSS feature activated.
Barry
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