How to Make Custom Night Sky Star Map Art with Inkscape and Free Stellarium Chart Data

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Inkscape step-by-step beginner-intermediate tutorial on how to create a custom star chart Night Sky wall art DIY project. Follow along in this Inkscape screen capture showing how to:

  1. Use Stellarium to download your star data.
  2. Watercolor effect settings to create your customized night sky.
  3. Modify gradient tool for desired color range.
  4. Make a vector file from the Stellarium data inside of Inkscape.
  5. Clip and Crop your stars to fit the night sky background.

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REFERENCE: Download Inkscape here: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0.2/ Stellarium: https://stellarium-web.org/

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