Convert Stellarium video capture to 360 for youtube I am wanting to capture video of Stellarium (I can already do this with CamStodio) and somehow convert this into a video usable for the YouTube 360 (or VR!) capability. 

Even if it can be converted into 180 and I need to add an image of the ground or spaceship to fill the rest of the image, that would still be super helpful!

I have found this, which gives a good overview of the maths of converting various projections (I haven't gone through it in detail yet), but I was wondering if someone has already written something to do this, before I go and write my own code for it?

I already use Davinci Resolve for my video editing, and I'm on a Windows 10 Pro (with access to various Linux machines).

Cheers!
360&deg; panoramic media conventionally use equirectangular projection
and a 2:1 aspect ratio.
I made a still panorama this way:


Configuration > Tools > Screenshots: Custom size 2048 x 1024
View > Sky > Projection: Cylinder (i.e. equirectangular)
View > Sky > Stars: Relative scale 0.70 (limits brightest stars to a reasonable size)
FOV 180&deg; (Ctrl+Alt+1)
Other view options as desired (e.g. turn off ground, atmosphere, labels)


Then I saved a screenshot (Ctrl+S) and injected the appropriate metadata.
The result is viewable as a 360&deg; panorama.

Constellations near the center of view look OK in any view direction,
but stars near the zenith look rather dim and rice-shaped.
I guess this could be remedied by something like the "Spheric mirror distortion" option (Configuration > Tools > Planetarium options) but within the "Cylinder" projection.
I don't know of a Stellarium plugin which does this yet.