United States Military Academy landscape for Stellarium
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Version 0.3   (01 Jan 2017)


== Description ==

The United States Military Academy at West Point was established in 1802, at a location originally used by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.  At West Point, which is about 50 miles north of New York City, the Hudson River turns and narrows as it passes between several mountains.  The Americans constructed a great iron chain across the river there, which successfully denied upstream access to the British.

The photos used to assemble this landscape were taken from the parade field at West Point during Branch Week.  Visible in front of Washington Hall one can see, among other things, two AH-64 Apache helicopters, two CH-47 Chinook helicopters, a Stryker armored fighting vehicle, and an M-1 Abrams Tank.
 
Starting with the class of 2020, West Point now offers an academic major in Space Sciences.


== Files ==

This file (readme.txt) should have come in a ZIP archive which contains:

  westpoint/readme.txt
  westpoint/landscape.ini
  westpoint/WestPoint.png


== Installation & Use ==

You can easily install this landscape in Stellarium without even
having to open the ZIP archive.  Once you have started Stellarium 
simply do the following:

1. Open the Sky and Viewing Options menu (left side of the screen)

2. Select the Landscapes tab (along the top)

3. Under “Options” check the box marked “Use associated planet and position,”
   if it’s not already checked.  This is generally a good thing to do with
   Stellarium landscapes, as it adjusts the sky view to match the location 
   of the landscape.

4. Press the button at the bottom labeled "Add/remove landscapes..."

5. Press the button for "Install a new landscape from a ZIP archive..."

   (Note: If you have a older version of the landscape installed then 
    you will need to remove that first before installing a newer version.)

6. Find and select the ZIP file and press "open"

More detailed instructions, with screen shots, may be found at  
http://www.spy-hill.net/~myers/astro/stellarium/installation.html

You can make this your default landscape by checking the appropriate box 
on the Landscapes tab of the Sky and Viewing Options menu.  Or not.

If you have problems installing the landscape this way you can also
try opening the ZIP file and moving the folder to wherever your
version of Stellarium keeps landscapes.  But if you need to do that
then you probably have an older version of Stellarium and should
consider upgrading. 


== Credits ==

Image credit:  Eric Myers, Poughkeepsie, New York  <EricMyers47@gmail.com>


== License ==

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.  
You are free to distribute it non-commercially as long as you give proper
attribution to the author.
See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode for details.

