What's new in Stellarium 24.1
Mar 25, 2024
- Added missing stars (GH: #3575)
- Added ability to following the current position in Search Tool/Position (GH: #3643)
- Added ability to set a sub-arcminute lower limit for angular size (GH: #3647)
- Added note on Ephemeris table (GH: #3634)
- Added special case for SIMBAD/NCP in Search Tool
- Added ability to toggle visibility HIPS surveys via scripting engine (GH: #3613)
- Added ability to use comma as decimal separator in Remote Control plugin
- Added translations to Lithuanian language
- Added distance and heliocentric distance info for Solar system objects into scripting engine
- Added major axis, minor axis and orientation angle info for DSO into scripting engine and Remote Control plugin (GH: #3605)
- Added an option to force low graphics mode (GH: #3590)
- Added code to automatic updating the TLE sources from Celestrack website (GH: #3588)
- Added a tabular view for distances of Solar system objects (InfoString).
- Fixed bug in Meteor shower plugin (GH: #3616)
- Fixed south azimuth usage in Search Tool/Position
- Fixed landscape transparency issue (GH: #3512)
- Fixed alignment for note in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Fixed CCD frame rotation after changing language (GH: #3627)
- Fixed computation of phase angle for satellites
- Fixed selection the title of observing lists when he is saved or imported (GH: #3623)
- Fixed a tiny bug in Observing Lists dropdown menu
- Fixed installation path for manpages in FreeBSD (GH: #3612)
- Fixed the major digit of version: automatisation has been removed
- Fixed license data for AppData file according to SPDX License List v3.22
- Fixed Rise/Transit/Set info (GH: #3602, #3610)
- Fixed updating Rise/Transit/Set info after switching location if the object was selected in AstroCalc/RTS tool
- Fixed a serious bug in Observing Lists (GH: #3586)
- Fix: reduce notification popups in Observing Lists (GH: #3587)
- Fixed possible issue for transparency in landscapes (GH: #3512)
- Fixed typo in coordinates of Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy (GH: #3576)
- Fix: clearing up refs to a few star names
- Fixed the informational data (InfoString) for comets
- Fixed visibility for orbital properties in the View/SSO dialog
- Fixed build without PCH
- Fixed missing reference.fab files (GH: #3681)
- Fixed find objects from search history (GH: #3671)
- Changed core: fall back to fast_float when C++ stdlib doesn't provide from_chars for floats
- Changed core: use std::from_chars for parsing ints in OBJ files
- Changed core: updating StelLogger (GH: #3614)
- Changed SolarSystem: add IAU designation for comets if missing
- Changed SolarSystem: add the perihel year to the comet name in case of loading older-style ssystem_minor.ini
- Changed Solar System Editor plugin: allow overwrite if possible (GH: #3641)
- Changed Exoplanets plugin: switched to use surface temperature for potentially habitable planets
- Changed Exoplanets plugin: updated priority to selection of objects
- Changed Meteor Showers plugin: Use NELM for local meteor rate (GH: #3549)
- Updated Greek (Almagest) sky culture
- Updated Remote Control plugin (GH: #2995)
- Updated dependencies: QXlsx 1.4.7
- Updated dependencies: CalcMySky 0.3.2
- Updated default list of locations
- Updated catalog of pulsars
- Updated translations
- Updated discovery circumstances for minor bodies of Solar system
- Updated orbital elements and default list of minor planets and comets
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated list of financial contributors
- Updated nomenclature data
- Updated SUG: document --low-graphics option
- Update properties for CPack-generator of DEB packages
- Updated instructions for building planetarium from the source code
- Removed fixed sizes from Oculars dialog
- Removed "scale" option from desktop file
- Removed outdated translatable lines
- Removed link to TLE for Starlink satellites with very old orbit data
- Removed extra shortcuts from (common|user) desktop in Windows (GH: #3579)
New in Stellarium 23.4 (Dec 24, 2023)
- Added script "Jupiter Moons"
- Added filter, based on SATCAT Operational Status in Satellites plugin
- Added new sky culture: Tibetan Lunar Mansions (GH: #3434)
- Added support an AppImage/Qt6 packages (GH: #3529)
- Added Lens Distortion Estimator plugin
- Added more simple calendar-based time steps (esp. for RemoteControl)
- Added wrapper for too long star names (GH: #3479)
- Added a temporary workaround for overlapping indicator and text in lists
- Added an optional sorting rule for Search Tool
- Added a new category of celestial objects into AstroCalc tool
- Added tooltips for twilights in Nav. Stars plugin
- Added a text wrapper for pulsar notes
- Added a text wrapper for long origins of nomenclature names
- Added reference file for Modern (H.A. Rey) SC
- Added a text wrapper for pulsar notes
- Added a text wrapper for long origins of nomenclature names
- Added ability to make observing lists directory configurable via GUI (GH: #3165)
- Added dpiAwareness option to manifest and send physical viewport size to Spout (GH: #3462)
- Added DSO names (GH: #3460)
- Added support the origins of nomenclature names (GH: #3457)
- Added 2 new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Added Remote control command to change window size (GH: #3433)
- Added support Windows/ARM64 packages
- Fixed coordinates for exoplanets
- Fixed few missing stars
- Fixed a problem with initialisation sequence (GH: #3550)
- Fixed crash in StelTexture destructor on exit (GH: #3427, #3541)
- Fixed unexpected behaviour: avoid auto changing landscape when not wanted (GH: #3514)
- Fixed Satellites plugin: restore shadow circle at arbitrary altitude
- Fixed computation of crop factor (LDE plugin)
- Fixed slow down of time during solar eclipses (GH: #3520)
- Fixed shadow circle issue: allow line loops on Cylindrical projection (GH: #3505)
- Fixed the selection objects in AstroCalc tools
- Fixed translation of the origins for planetary nomenclature
- Fixed Windows installer for 64-bit modes (GH: #3492)
- Fixed color of ColorButton's tooltip
- Fixed RTS caching (GH: #3485)
- Fixed TUI plugin (GH: #3483)
- Fixed New Hindu Lunar calendar (GH: #3442)
- Fixed metainfo data
- Fixed recognition for MSVC++ versions
- Fixed coordinates for custom objects
- Fixed getting the list of sky cultures: don't skip remaining sky cultures after failing to read one
- Fixed error message for Zodiacal light feature
- Changed core: Use the correct screen when making a screenshot
- Changed core: Restore default inclusion of TUI plugin (GH: #3481)
- Changed core: Only let time dragging work with Ctrl modifier
- Changed core: Make sure custom markers are set only when Shift is pressed alone
- Changed GUI: Increase brightness cutoff for planets (GH: #3317)
- Changed GUI: Make a dedicated widget for color buttons
- Changed GUI: Scale the pixel sizes in the stylesheet according to GUI font size
- Changed GUI: Make default GUI font size available outside of StelApp
- Changed GUI: Remove all fixed sizes from dialog .ui files
- Changed GUI: Set button icon sizes explicitly in normalStyle.css
- Changed GUI: Move stackListWidget sizes to normalStyle.css
- Changed GUI: Move StelCloseButton style to normalStyle.css
- Changed GUI: Fix application of bold font property to window titles
- Changed GUI: Deduplicate title bar implementation
- Changed GUI: Turn StelCloseButton into a ToolButton
- Changed GUI: Use default style for normal state of GPS button
- Changed GUI: Style QToolButton the same way as QPushButton
- Changed GUI: Provide a proper sizeHint for AngleSpinBox
- Changed GUI: Make slider groove more scalable
- Changed GUI: Use StelMainView as the parent for all message boxes and file dialogs
- Changed code of Satellites plugin: Avoid duplicate code
- Changed code of Oculars plugin: Avoid saving and reading wrong indexes for telescopes, CCD and eyepieces
- Changed the default level for selection priority of custom markers
- Changed Windows installer: Simplify Spout sending
- Changed Windows installer: Modernize Mesa library (GH: #3414, #2803)
- Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
- Updated list of planetary nomenclature
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Updated default catalog of satellites
- Updated default list of locations
- Updated default catalog of exoplanets
- Updated meteor showers catalog from 2024 IMO Calendar
- Updated list of financial contributors
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated translations
- Updated scripting engine: Make reloadPlanets() scriptable
- Updated communications data for satellites
- Updated DSO names (GH: #3543)
- Updated script "Messier Objects Tour"
- Updated SUG: Added information on adding orbital elements from JPL Horizon
- Updated SUG: Added example data for interplanetary spacecraft
- Updated ISO 3166 data
- Updated default value of GRS longitude
- Updated discovery circumstances for minor planets and comets
- Updated GUI tooltips
- Updated SpoutLibrary (GH: #3450)
- Updated appdata.xml file
New in Stellarium 23.3 (Dec 24, 2023)
- New plugin: Missing Stars
- Allow semitransparent landscapes
- Added discovery circumstances for Solar system bodies
- Improve orbit drawing for minor bodies
- Show named impact features as ellipses
- Major changes in Navigational Stars plugin
- Observing List fixes
- Unambiguous comet names
New in Stellarium 1.2 (Dec 27, 2022)
- Added support elongation in ecliptic longitude for Pointer Coordinates plugin (GH: #2700)
- Added Bahai calendars (GH: #2898)
- Added Chinese calendar and derivatives (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) (GH: #2898)
- Added linebreaks to excessively long calendar output lines in Calendars plugin (GH: #2898)
- Added new projection: plate carree (GH: #2856)
- Added options to allow limiting nomenclature to the terminator zone (GH: #2790)
- Added translation hints in Calendars plugin
- Added names of Vietnamese Solar Terms in Calendars plugin
- Added support for anisotropic filtering of textures (GH: #2881)
- Added context support for proper names of pulsars
- Added Noto fonts (GH: #2877)
- Added new sky culture - Seri (GH: #2863)
- Added new sky culture - Tikuna (GH: #2812)
- Added new sky culture - Greek (Dante)
- Added one extra check for updates Satellites (GH: #2860)
- Added temporary hook for Qt5-based macOS bundles (GH: #2890)
- Added support new archive formats for generator of source packages (GH: #2820)
- Added support the Region parameter for skycultures (GH: #2760)
- Added indicator of max exposure time for moving objects in Oculars plugin (GH: #2789)
- Added new sky culture - Modern (IAU) (GH: #2835)
- Added scaling stars on a HiDPI devices (GH: #2846)
- Added 4 new sets of navigational stars
- Fixed minimum system version for macOS bundle
- Fixed typos in the rest of the codebase (GH: #2862)
- Fixed compilation without PCH
- Fixed missing translatable text for calendars
- Fixed missing signals after changing properties for nomenclature
- Fixed properties in the GUI for nomenclature
- Fixed the build of SUG on Ubuntu 20.04
- Fixed naming: Starlore -> Sky Culture
- Fixed man pages for bundle in macOS
- Fixed setting versions of packages in Windows
- Fixed link to the latest Stellarium User Guide
- Fixed checking updates of Stellarium
- Fixed context for term
- Fixed version numbers for macOS bundle (GH: #2805)
- Fixed wobble of small objects like Callisto or Thebe (GH: #2809)
- Fixed a seam that appears between floor and sides of old-style landscapes when multisampling is on
- Fixed planet shader on GLSL 1.00
- Fixed loading star names for Hawaiian Starlines SC (GH: #2808)
- Fixed renamed properties (Oculars plugin)
- Fixed a few more renamed timezones
- Fixed Observer altitude in Satellites plugin (GH: #2848)
- Fixed typos in the src/ subdirectory (GH: #2857)
- Fixed typos in the plugins/ subdirectory (GH: #2858)
- Changed Calendars plugin: Roman Calendar - print years AUC in Roman numerals (GH: #2898)
- Changed core: switch LandscapeSpherical to fragment-shader-based direction computation (GH: #2908)
- Changed core: switch LandscapeFisheye to fragment-shader-based direction computation (GH: #2908)
- Changed core: avoid the seam in spherical landscape for GL
New in Stellarium 1.1 (Nov 1, 2022)
- The major changes of this version:
- Added support OpenGL 3.3 Core profile
- ShowMySky model is now supported on macOS
- Changed core: switch to use CalcMySky v0.2.1
- Changed GUI: allow user CSS
- Fixed compiling with Qt 6.4
- Fixed Telescope Control plugin
- Removed Dakota & Ojibwe sky cultures: this is on request of the original contributors, and following a misunderstanding about licensing.
- Full list of changes:
- Added support OpenGL 3.3 Core profile
- Added support for the versioned variant of ShowMySky library
- Added ability to show only special nomenclature points (GH: #2748)
- Added Abort slew button into Telescope Control plugin
- Added aberration to CustomObjects made from Simbad queries (GH: #2769)
- Added donation link to AppStream Metadata (GH: #2773)
- Added small tuning for DSO selection without magnitudes (GH: #2701, #2716)
- Added another vanished timezone
- Added workaround for QTBUG-105984 in macOS (GH: #2785)
- Fixed loading of glow texture in OnlineQueries plugin
- Fixed compiling with Qt 6.4: use QString instead of QByteArray (GH: #2709)
- Fixed OnlineQueries plugin button: redesigned OnlineQueries icons (GH: #2710, #2714)
- Fixed building Stellarium with -DENABLE_MEDIA=Off option
- Fixed using of OpenGL debug logger
- Fixed AppVerName variable for Windows installer (GH: #2728)
- Fixed crash in AtmosphereShowMySky constructor when OpenGL 3.3 functions pointer is null
- Fixed loading dynamic plugins (GH: #2725)
- Fixed bundling for the versioned variant of ShowMySky library on macOS
- Fixed resizing tab names in Help window when language is changed
- Fixed a missing iterator count-up(!) in SlewDialog (Telescope Control plugin)
- Fixed saving option "Use horizontal coordinates" in Oculars plugin
- Fixed saving mount properties in Telescope Control plugin (GH: #2713)
- Fixed protocol for screenshots URL
- Fixed bundling latest versions of ShowMySky library (GH: #2761, #2779)
- Fixed normals map of the Moon, increase its resolution and implement shadows (GH: #2781)
- Fixed issue in unit testing of scripting engine (GH: #2774)
- Fixed freezing Stellarium when scripts are running (GH: #2792)
- Changed core: make Date&Time dialog more usable for typing date
- Changed core: optional support XLSX files (GH: #2723)
- Changed core: avoid deprecation warnings on Qt5.14+
- Changed core: avoid a debug output
- Changed core: avoid uninitialized vectors
- Changed core: replace world map with a higher-resolution version (The map was taken from NASA Blue Marble Next Generation dataset for July 2004) (GH: #2742)
- Changed core: handle exceptions from AtmosphereRenderer when drawing
- Changed core: current atmosphere should be deleted immediately if we need to reset to fallback
- Changed core: handle the options that set environment variables before QGuiApplication is created
- Changed core: detect OpenGL ES mode dynamically rather than by conditional compilation
- Changed core: make orbits antialiased
- Changed core: simplify check for GLES
- Changed ASCOM client in Telescope Control plugin
- Changed core: switch to use CalcMySky v0.2.1
- Changed core: restore current OpenGL context if it got replaced after window resize during StelMainView::init()
- Changed core: avoid GL_INVALID_OPERATION caused by operating on zero VAO
- Changed core: move dithering mode management from StelPainter to StelCore
- Changed rules for packaging Stellarium in Windows
- Changed rules for packaging Stellarium in Linux
- Changed license info for Boorong sky culture
- Changed license info for Lokono sky culture
- Changed GUI: allow user CSS (GH: #2772, #678, #1624, #2763)
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: trivial simplifications)
- Updated scripts
- Updated list of default locations
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Updated GUI: set date delimiters in Date-Time dialog in one place
- Updated GUI of Telescope Control plugin
- Updated list of default locations
- Updated description of Equation of Time plugin
- Updated AppStream Metadata
- Removed outdated bookmark in Solar System Editor plugin
- Removed languages without translators
- Removed Dakota & Ojibwe sky cultures: this is on request of the original contributors, and following a misunderstanding about licensing.
- Removed the font hook for Windows
New in Stellarium 1.0 (Nov 1, 2022)
- What makes this 1.0:
- After more than 20 years of development the program is finally accurate enough for historical application.
- This is the first release based on the Qt6 framework, so the project is safe for future development. These packages are tagged with a version number like 1.22.3.
- We keep releasing Qt5-based packages for legacy or obsolete systems. This may include many Windows users who have to run ANGLE mode. These packages are tagged with a version number like 0.22.3.
- What is new for users:
- A new, much better skylight model (Not for MacOS and OpenGL ES2 systems, sorry.)
- Many details around eclipses
- Updated Observation List features
- New features in AstroCalc tool
- HiDPI improvements
- Better dithering
- Able to use Windows location service (Windows)
- New skyculture: Samoan
- Updated several skycultures
- Updates in Angle Measure, Satellites, Oculars, Remote Control, Pulsars plugins
- Many more bugfixes.
- Full list of changes:
- Added support Qt6 environment
- Added support designations (based on B1950 coordinates) for pulsars
- Added definitions for MSVC++ 17.1 and MSVC++ 17.2 compilers
- Added report JSON generator to Observability plugin to allow for regression testing
- Added modified patch from OpenIndiana for AstroCalc tool
- Added modified patch from OpenBSD for GPS support
- Added approximated standard magnitude for Chinese Space Station
- Added a potentially missing timezone
- Added 'Go' button in Search Window Position tab (GH: #2681)
- Added wwddmmyyyy date format for Obsevability Analysis plugin
- Added hover effect for Oculars plugin buttons (GH: #2698)
- Added artwork for Babylonian (Seleucid) sky culture
- Added support for up to 500% scaling of dialog close button (GH: #2660)
- Added supporting horizontal coordinates for the CCD sensor in Oculars plugin (GH: #2672)
- Added capability to create KML map of solar eclipses in AstroCalc tool (GH: #2677)
- Added support the additional names to observing list (GH: #2525, #2553, #2232, #2309)
- Added default atmosphere model path in the Atmosphere Details dialog (GH: #2637)
- Added config viewer (GH: #2628)
- Added some documentation for ShowMySky in the User Guide (GH: #2636)
- Added list of financial contributors into About dialog (GH: #2646)
- Added contact times of global solar eclipse in AstroCalc tool (GH: #2652)
- Added default Earth atmosphere model (GH: 2634)
- Added a new Stellarium Sky Culture: Samoan (GH: #2627)
- Added column "Symbol" for major planets into AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #1628)
- Added a small didactic enhancement for AstroCalc/Positions/HEC tool (GH: #2549)
- Added user preference for DSO catalog selection
- Added sound output for Qt6 builds
- Added object type info into title for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
- Added support public version of Stellarium (GH: #2545)
- Added units of measurements to Oculars plugin (GH: #2594)
- Added original names to Siberian sky culture
- Added support the thickness of satellite orbits (GH: #2623)
- Added support for ShowMySky atmosphere model (GH: #624, #2604)
- Added align to selected object for Angle Measure plugin (GH: #2621)
- Added computation the time of equinoxes and solstices and set of actions to jump to the solstice/equinox at current, next or previous year. The default hotkeys for actions are not defined [module "Specific Time"] (GH: #1394, #2516)
- Added quadrature line (GH: #2513, #2511, #789)
- Added quadratures for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #2513, #2511, #789)
- Added handling the placement the windows outside the left border of the screen (GH: #2514)
- Added hotkey for run the computing the transits of Venus/Mercury in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
- Added new one tooltip for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Fixed GUI issue
- Fixed installing constellation art in Babylonian Seleucid sky culture (GH: #2704)
- Fixed use of obsolete combobox signal in Telescope Control plugin
- Fixed selection in Solar System Editor plugin for Qt6-based package
- Fixed missing segments in solar eclipse kml (GH: #2702)
- Fixed state of buttons in AstroCalc tools
- Fixed inconsistency in units
- Fixed requested GLSL version
- Fixed columns in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
- Fixed sorting the path width and duration columns in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
- Fixed working ShowMySky on HDPI GPU with limited graphics performance (GH: #2676)
- Fixed special hotkeys
- Fixed tooltips for some Markings (GH: #2671)
- Fixed developers list
- Fixed adding some objects (like B 287 (Barnard 287)) into Observing lists (GH: #1884, #2309, #2553, #2232)
- Fixed segfault in Observing Lists when import/export the lists (GH: #2411, #1932, #2553, #2232)
- Fixed segfault in Observing Lists when saving the lists (GH: #2437, #2553, #2232)
- Fixed import Bookmarks into Observing List (GH: #1944, #2553, #2232)
- Fixed object selection when use Edit button in Observing List (GH: #1941, #2553, #2232)
- Fixed movement users onto Null Island in Observing List (GH: #1933, #2486, #2553, #2232)
- Fixed wrong type of objects in Observing List (GH: #2475, #2553, #2232)
- Fixed building QXlsx as an universal binary on macOS
- Fixed updating region name when location is changed (GH: #2633)
- Fixed comparison logic in Angle Measure plugin (GH: #2630)
- Fixed NMEA connections in Qt6
- Fixed IAU star names (GH: #2531)
- Fixed saving the keyboard shortcut (GH: #2571)
- Fixed deployment ShowMySky library on macOS
- Fixed windows deployment
- Fixed crash when scripting is disabled (GH: #2544)
- Fixed upper limit of phase, unit of magnitude and angular size in tooltip of AstroCalc tools (GH: #2555)
- Fixed crash when using shortcut for specific time jump that related to twilight (GH: #2558)
- Fixed opens the links in browser (GH: #2554)
- Fixed exported CSV files in AstroCalc/Eclipses (GH: #2569)
- Fixed wrong timezone handling of Qt6 (GH: #2547)
- Fixed scripts after property had been renamed.
- Fixed versions of scripts
- Fixed visibility selection of DSO without proper magnitudes (GH: #2563)
- Fixed scaling right axes on graphs (GH: #2578, #2582)
- Fixed working RemoteControl GUI with Qt6 (GH: #2579)
- Fixed search in RemoteControl plugin (GH: #2568)
- Fixed translation the graphs data when language is changed for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
- Fixed titles for AstroCalc/Graphs tools
- Fixed autodetect build architecture on macOS (GH: #2550)
- Fixed LTO build (GH: #2590)
- Fixed map update (GH: #1302, #2592)
- Fixed Zenith scripting issue (GH: #754, #2589)
- Fixed meteor showers plugin
- Fixed name of renamed solar system file
- Fixed reading abbreviated names: allow any non-space characters as part of the constellation and asterism keys (GH: #2606)
- Fixed getting the Moon's Elongation in ecliptical longitude via scripting (GH: #2605)
- Fixed rendering the Oculars labels on HDPI monitors (GH: #2622)
- Fixed coordinates of VDB 16 (GH: #2600)
- Fixed screen blanking on Intel UHD (GH: #2166, #2472, #2484, #2619)
- Fixed updating catalogs in plugins (GH: #2534)
- Fixed missing translations
- Fixed crash in debug mode
- Fixed 'Binocular Highlights' script
- Fixed working the logger for BSD systems with Qt6 environment
- Fixed method getOperatingSystemInfo() for macOS
- Fixed outdated macros for macOS
- Fixed icon size in macOS (GH: #2543)
- Fixed Qt6 redirect policy in plugins (GH: #2534)
- Fixed misspelled of Schedar (GH: #2531)
- Fixed celestrak URL in Satellites plugin: celestrak.com moved to celestrak.org
- Fixed list of languages
- Fixed crash when "Show Earth's umbra" is enabled (GH: #2509)
- Fixed translations the some tooltips when language is changed in AstroCalc tools
- Fixed lost selection in Observing Lists tool (GH: #2694)
- Changed core: replace ordered Bayer dithering with the algorithm based on triangle-remapped blue noise (GH: #2640)
- Changed core: enable dithering by default (GH: #2644)
- Changed core: Milky Way and Zodiacal Light rebalance (GH: #2648)
- Changed core: improved Haiku OS support
- Changed core: actions for jump to the moments of rise, set and transit (include twilight) of selected objects moved into "Specific Time" module (GH: #2516)
- Changed GPS location manager: add location service managed by Windows (GPS, network location, ...) (GH: #2620)
- Changed building rules for dependencies: use system versions of dependencies (GH: #1295)
- Changed Observability Analysis plugin: replace object type booleans with methods. This removes the need for managing object type state and delegates it to the StelObjectMgr (GH: #2536)
- Changed Observability Analysis plugin: refactor Observability plugin to use signals for reacting to location state changes (GH: #2535)
- Changed RemoteControl plugin: add missing elements
- Changed Scripting module: switch to use JSEngine instead of QtScript in Qt6-based version
- Changed logger: refactored the method for obtaining the compiler info in the logger
- Changed macOS defaults: by default for Qt6 environment on macOS create an universal binary (arm64 + x86_64) package for macOS Big Sur and later
- Updated Location window: Rewrite MapLabel → MapWidget (GH: 2696)
- Updated timezone data
- Updated Stellarium User Guide
- Updated GUI elements: increase resolution of some PNGs to improve high-DPI look (GH: #2658)
- Updated GUI elements: work around too much stretching of close button icon on Qt 5.12.8 (GH: #2674)
- Updated GUI elements: increase resolution of spinboxes to improve the look on high-DPI monitors
- Updated splash screen: paint version on the fly on the splash screen instead of rasterizing it into pixmap (GH: #2668)
- Updated rendering the ShowMySky atmosphere model
- Updated About/Config tab
- Updated Babylonian (Mulapin) Sky Culture
- Updated Egyptian Sky Culture
- Updated Greek (Almagest) Sky Culture
- Updated Indian sky culture (GH: #2557, #2559)
- Updated atmosphere model for ShowMySky module (GH: #2643)
- Updated list of contributors list in the About dialog
- Updated default pulsars catalog
- Updated list of locations
- Updated few scripts
- Updated title for AstroCalc/Graphs/Lunar Elongation tool
- Updated nomenclature data
- Updated settings for Inno Setup on Windows
- Removed the duplicate code
- Removed unneeded headers
- Removed duplicated code in AstroCalc tools
New in Stellarium 0.22.2 (Jul 8, 2022)
- Added "type" column to WUT list (GH: #2502)
- Added twilights to the nautical navigation data (GH: #2489)
- Added new visual filter for satellites (GH: #1527, #2060)
- Added group of satellites (Gonets)
- Added "Transits of Mercury and Venus across the Sun" computations for AstroCalc tool (GH: #2477)
- Added new filter for communications satellites
- Added feature to recognise the communications data for satellites
- Added GUI for manual addition of comm frequencies for satellites (GH: #2476)
- Added support inclination classifications for geocentric orbits for satellites
- Added feature to adding and restoring the descriptions of satellites
- Added tool to reset TLE sources in Satellites plugin (GH: #2458)
- Added 'altitude' parameter to custom filter of satellites
- Added option to colored invisible satellites: you can toggle behaviour of colorification invisible satellites now
- Added recognition licenses for sky cultures (GH: #2410)
- Added new names to DSO (GH: #2463)
- Added recognition the standard magnitudes for Starlink and OneWeb satellites
- Added ability to select all satellites in the list by one touch
- Added custom filter for satellites (GH: #2457, #2060)
- Added quick selection buttons for DSO (GH: #2425, #2427)
- Added ability to use time mask for naming of screenshots (GH: #1283)
- Added visualisation Earth umbra and penumbra for satellites (GH: #2451, #2360, #1246)
- Added support directional elongation (GH: #2405)
- Added some Barnard outlines (GH: #2412)
- Fixed saving GRS properties
- Fixed missing meteor showers name (GH: #2492)
- Fixed bugs in planetary transits (GH: #2491)
- Fixed orbit validation for observers
- Fixed selecting items from the recent search in Search tool
- Fixed signal/slot issue in Search Tool
- Fixed wrong selection of object in Search Tool/Lists
- Fixed placement for output data on HDPI devices (Observ. plugin)
- Fixed flickering Lunar halo (GH: #2240)
- Fixed selection ANGLE mode: simplify force-switching to ANGLE mode (GH: #2471)
- Fixed missing translations
- Fixed dead links and phrases in sky cultures
- Fixed filtering issue for satellites and update some defaults
- Fixed description for XMM-Newton satellite
- Fixed guessing the groups of satellites
- Fixed slow down of time when the Moon is selected (GH: #2465)
- Fixed eclipse problem (GH: #2464)
- Fixed conversion tool radToHms(): avoiding possible negative zero for value of seconds (GH: #2460)
- Fixed wrong code in radToHMSStr and radToHMSStrAdapt convertors (GH: #2460)
- Fixed work AstroCalc/(Phenomena and RTS) tools with Qt 5.14+ (GH: #2459)
- Fixed Milky Way texture (GH: #2420, #2421)
- Fixed duplicate for NGC 5504
- Fixed stars info: hiding separation info for double stars with "fake values" (GH: #2429)
- Fixed broken signal/slot in Meteor Showers plugin (GH: #2433)
- Fixed 'Nights above horizon' feature in Observability plugin (GH: #2436)
- Fixed rendering orbits of artificial satellites (GH: #2452)
- Fixed crash when some star catalogues deleted or adding (GH: #2404)
- Fixed opacity/magnitude conflict for objects from Barnard catalog (GH: #2408)
- Fixed possible duplicates of DSO names
- Fixed hourly motion of objects (GH: #2505, #2498)
- Fixed show negative radiant drift in RA for meteor showers (GH: #2504)
- Changed setFullScreen() method (GH: #660)
- Changed infostring data for observers: hided the meaningless data
- Changed Satellites plugin: add improvements for visibility prediction of satellites
- Changed behaviour in Satellites plugin: display satellites and their orbits within selected range of altitudes only when related option is activated.
- Changed behaviour in Satellites plugin: Some specific comm terms from the channel description are translatable now
- Changed AstroCalc/Graphs tools: a full refactoring
- Changed AstroCalc/PC tool: refactoring the graphs
- Changed Exoplanets plugin: refactoring the graphs
- Updated filter 'orbit calculation error' in the Satellites plugin
- Updated pulsars catalog
- Updated list of locations
- Updated meteor showers catalog (GH: #2492)
- Updated default list of satellites
- Updated script for InnoSetup (GH: #2450)
- Updated planetary nomenclature
- Updated communications data for satellites
- Updated DSO catalog (v3.16; GH: #2414, #2473)
- Updated list of description of satellites
- Updated data in Meteor Showers catalog (GH: #2467, #2449)
- Updated GUI in Meteor Showers plugin
- Updated default hint color for satellites
- Updated Meteor Showers plugin (GH: #2416)
- Updated DSO names
- Removed QCustomPlot dependence
- Removed scaling mode from shortcuts for Windows (GH: #2450)
New in Stellarium 0.22.1 (Apr 17, 2022)
- Added Khoikhoi and San sky culture (GH: #2396)
- Added Xhosa sky culture (GH: #2395)
- Added fixed equatorial grid/line (GH: #2399)
- Added DSO names (GH: #2387)
- Fixed building AppImage/x86_64 package
- Fixes various typos in sky cultures (GH: #2400)
- Fixed rendering 3D models for solar system bodies (GH: #2367)
- Changed screenshots naming: properly detect largest screenshot number (GH: #2379)
- Updated DSO catalog (v3.15): updated visual magnitudes for Messier objects from RNGC/IC catalog by Wolfgang Steinicke (GH: #2375)
- Updated designations of stars (GH: #2391)
- Updated licence statement for few sky cultures
New in Stellarium 0.22.0 (Mar 27, 2022)
- Added ability to search satellites by COSPAR ID
- Added ability to support multi supergroups for satellites
- Added checks for valid UTF-8 sequence for SS [ssystem*] files (GH: #2146)
- Added 2 startup shortcuts for linux distros (GH: #2129)
- Added GUIs for tweaking some atmosphere parameters and better understand how these things work together (GH: #2085)
- Added ability switching between Preetham and Schaefer for sky brightness (CIE Y channel) (GH: #2085)
- Added ability switching between 2 presets of chromaticity parameters (Preetham/Stellarium) (GH: #2085)
- Added ability coupling extinction coefficient and atmosphere turbidity (GH: #2085)
- Added an exponential twilight transition to Preetham zenith luminance (GH: #2085)
- Added a flag to suppress atmosphere scattering rendering. Just keeps atmosphere refraction and extinction effects (GH: #2085)
- Added ability tweaking atmosphere: allow solar halo drawing before or after 3d solar sphere (GH: #2085)
- Added ability tweaking atmosphere: allow rendering the Sun after the atmosphere (avoid overbrightening, but may look too dark) (GH: #2085)
- Added GUI to fine-tune viewing environment (tone mapping) (GH: #2085)
- Added scripting functions to modify tone mapping settings (GH: #2085)
- Added color conversion to AdobeRGB (not only sRGB). This may give better screen colors on some systems. (GH: #2085)
- Added ability moving StelDialogSeparate to a separate screen (GH: #2132)
- Added human readable format for coordinates of planetary features (GH: #2158)
- Added support decimal coordinates for planetary features (GH: #2158)
- Added Akan (ak), Karelian (krl), Montenegrin (cnr) and Serbian (Latin) (sr@latin) languages support
- Added Lunar Eclipses to Astronomical calculations (GH: #2190, #407)
- Added actions to centering screen on current telescope position (GH: #1956)
- Added proper name for LBN 437
- Added proper name for Stock 2 cluster (GH: #2207)
- Added actions to quick choose of presets for the selected object information (GH: #2206)
- Added Modified Espenak & Meeus (2006, 2022) solution for DeltaT (GH: #2340)
- Added support alternative names (designations) for exoplanets (GH: #2350)
- Added texture for an interesting distorted galaxy NGC 2146 in Camelopardalis
- Added setting of screenshot dpi
- Added New and Astronomical Hindu Calendars (GH: #2284)
- Added Hindu Panchang (GH: #2284)
- Added 60-year-cycle to Tibetan calendar (GH: #2284)
- Added configurable text color (GH: #2284)
- Added mistakenly removed parentheses to the regex (GH: #2324)
- Added Egyptian (Dendera) sky culture (GH: #2329)
- Added Zulu sky culture (GH: #2329)
- Added 2 asterisms: Medium Bull & Minor Bull
- Added Persian Astronomical calendar (GH: #2229)
- Added nowruz to both Persian calendar versions (GH: #2229)
- Added French Revolution Calendar (astronomical version) (GH: #2229)
- Added Tibetan Calendar (GH: #2229)
- Added functions from CC:UE chapter 14 on astronomical functions (GH: #2229)
- Added proper name for CTB 1 (Abell 85) nebula
- Added boundaries to Arabic Lunar Stations skycultute (GH: #2222)
- Added support of seasonal polar caps on the Mars (GH: #2220, #2040)
- Added Revised Julian Calendar into Calendars plugin (GH: #2214)
- Added support heliocentric ecliptic positions of the major planets into AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #2233)
- Added Solar Eclipses to Astronomical calculations (GH: #2218, #407)
- Added missing timezone for Nuuk (GH: #2140)
- Added column "Visibility conditions" to the lunar eclipses
- Fixed typos in Satellites plugin
- Fixed Stephenson, Morrison & Hohenkerk solution for DeltaT
- Fixed Stephenson & Houlden (1986) algorithm for DeltaT
- Fixed rendering gravity labels on HiDPI devices
- Fixed rendering gravity labels of compass
- Fixed nomenclature longitudes (GH: #2158)
- Fixed synonyms in DSO names
- Fixed clazy warnings for plugins and core
- Fixed translation the column names in AstroCalc/WUT tool when language is changed
- Fixed jumping to position in search window (GH: #2205)
- Fixed entering geographical coordinates (GH: #2209, #2210)
- Fixed crash on exit when Telescopes tab of Oculars is active (GH: #2103)
- Fixed bug in Meteor showers search dialog (GH: #2356)
- Fixed list of languages
- Fixed typos in sky cultures
- Fixed potential selection bug in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed visual properties for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed bug in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool for local solar eclipses when total/annular eclipses take place very close to the horizon (GH: #2345)
- Fixed decimal longitude in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool (GH: #2323)
- Fixed coordinates of few open clusters (DSO Catalog v3.14)
- Fixed crash on start when Calendars plugin not loaded. (GH: #2287)
- Fixed parsing of decimal degrees in AngleSpinBox::stringToDouble() (GH: #2249)
- Fixed light pollution node in TUI (GH: #2253)
- Fixed StelLocationMgr.cpp:parseAngle for negative fractional-degree angles (GH: #2255)
- Fixed reading location from CLI (GH: #2254)
- Fixed planetocentric rectangular coordinates (GH: #2244)
- Fixed R&D solution of DeltaT (GH: #2229)
- Fixed galactic and supergalactic longitudes range in Scripting Engine (GH: #2219)
- Fixed bug in the Hebrew calendar (GH: #2153)
- Fixed errors in Arabic sky cultures
- Fixed computation of rise, transit and set times for the Moon (GH: 2228)
- Fixed alignment for headers in tables
- Fixed security issues: updated jQuery and jQuery UI (GH: #2234, #2235, #2236)
- Fixed bug in AstroCalc/Eclipses where type of local solar eclipses are incorrect (GH: #2237)
- Fixed wrong range of galactic and supergalactic coordinate systems (GH: #2219)
- Changed the languages support: refactoring the code for ISO-639 codes support
- Changed the core: refactoring the code for get angular size of objects (GH: #2180)
- Changed the GUI: compactification of the GUI (GH: #2199)
- Changed AstroCalc/Transits tool: The AstroCalc/Transits tool has been converted to AstroCalc/RTS tool, where RTS is meaning "rises, transits and sets" (GH: #2283)
- Changed regexp in the comets data parser (GH: #2281)
- Changed core: pass Sun, Moon and current planet objects as well as location directly to Atmosphere::computeColor (GH: #2257)
- Changed core: enable multisampling for landscape too (GH: #2260)
- Changed core: switch from Bortle class to luminance as the quantity of light pollution (GH: 2179)
- Updated Arabic sky cultures: renaming sky cultures (GH: #2212)
- Updated Babylonian (MUL.APIN) sky culture
- Updated rules for guessing the groups of satellites
- Updated GUI of Satellites plugin
- Updated default list of TLE sources
- Updated International Designator info for satellites
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Updated list of known versions MSVC++
- Updated logger for macOS
- Updated translations
- Updated Stellarium User Guide
- Updated core: replace deprecated QLinkedList by std::list
- Updated core: refactor cardinals (GH: #2352)
- Updated core: refactor qflags (GH: #2351)
- Updated GUI: Improve usability of light pollution display in landscape description (GH: #2296)
- Updated GUI: Prevent negative length of day (GH: #2332)
- Updated labels in Calendars plugin
- Updated defaults for Calendars plugin (GH: #2284)
- Updated Scenery3D plugin: Extend shadowmap/cubemap resolution options
- Updated list of proper names (GH: #2316, #2319, #2320)
- Updated order of star designations
- Updated shape of asterism "Taurus Poniatovii"
- Updated locations database, nomenclature and common names for DSO (GH: #2262, #2268, #2274, #2280, #2282)
- Updated build instruction
- Updated GUI for AstroCalc/Eclipses tool: allow years before 1582 (GH: #2224)
- Removed default GRS solution (GH: #2187)
- Removed radio frequencies from getInfoMap() method
New in Stellarium 0.21.3 (Dec 27, 2021)
- Added support a context in names of sky cultures
- Added improvements for compute the accuracy and performance of sunrise/sunset time in AstroCalc/WUT
- Added support HTC 2.0 theory (#1942)
- Added also search descriptions in Satellites plugin (GH: #1940)
- Added support QtWebEngine in OnlineQueries plugin (GH: #1938)
- Added reference to ArchaeoLines plugin
- Added scriptable method to set the time extent for trails
- Added figure correction for the Lunar position
- Added atmospheric pressure and temperature info into location tooltip
- Added *.md files into Windows installer (GH: #2023)
- Added orbit epoch as explicit element to the KeplerOrbit (GH: #2000, #2027)
- Added Solar and Lunar info to InfoString (GH: #1455, #2037)
- Added pragmatic solution for a Linux display problem with aberration (GH: #1945)
- Added a "default" group to selected object info (GH: #2038)
- Added context for info group names (GH: #2038)
- Added epoch entries for the Interstellar objects
- Added support to show ephemeris when Solar system bodies are hidden (GH: #2044, #2051)
- Added orbit_Epoch to comet orbital elements
- Added scripting functions for tonemapping
- Added tool to find and select an object from its standard name and object type name (GH: #1970)
- Added tool to search an object by its standard name and object type
- Added Arabic sky culture (GH: #2064)
- Added Arabian Peninsula sky culture (GH: #2064)
- Added Arabic Lunar Stations sky culture (GH: #2064)
- Added new actions for jumping to defined moments in diurnal motion of selected objects (GH: #2106)
- Added smart tooltip for AstroCalc/Graphs tool (GH: #2110)
- Added Poles and east and west points (limb/equator intersection) (GH: #2092, #2098)
- Added Central and Subsolar special points (GH: #2098)
- Added scriptable method to replace textures on-the-fly (GH: #1060, #2120)
- Added twilight data into InfoString for the Sun
- Added new filter for satellites (GH: #2124)
- Added code to automatic add the group of satellites, based on Celestrak groups (GH: #1636, #2125)
- Fixed issues in hawaiian starlines sky culture (GH: #1931)
- Fixed error in search of Atlas right hand (GH: #1934)
- Fixed computation max elevation in AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Fixed building unit tests when scripting is disabled
- Fixed direct script commands for RemoteControl (GH: #1943)
- Fixed selecting sky culture
- Fixed Sun limb size and direction in Navigational Stars plugin (GH: #2019, #2021)
- Fixed Observability plugin: restore lost lunar "previous" and "next" full moon information (GH: #2025)
- Fixed epoch support for the Pluto (GH: #2062)
- Fixed OnlineQueries plugin: additional cmake fixes over #2006 (GH: #2049)
- Fixed a regular expression for constellation references (GH: #2055)
- Fixed typo in HD designation for HIP 48715 star (GH: #2063)
- Fixed dithering for native GLES2 systems (Odroid C1)
- Fixed PNGs: prevent libpng iCCP incorrect sRGB profile warnings
- Fixed building OnlineQueries plugin for non-WebEngine mode
- Fixed typo in CMake script (GH: #2067)
- Fixed default epoch for comet orbit
- Fixed crash after importing single asteroid (pulsar, quasar, supernova, nova, exoplanetary system) when imported asteroid was selected (GH: #1970)
- Fixed crash after updating catalogs of objects (pulsars, quasars, supernovae, novae, exoplanets, solar system objects) when selected object was removed by updating tool (GH: #1970)
- Fixed formatting (GH: #2095)
- Fixed rendering of markers when using perspective or orthographic projections (GH: #2093)
- Fixed issue in implementation of LX200 protocol (GH: #818)
- Fixed typos in sky cultures (GH: #2105)
- Fixed context issue for translation of pole labels (GH: #2098)
- Fixed aberration issues for Nomenclature selection (GH: #2098)
- Fixed selection priority for far-side features of the planet (GH: #2098)
- Changed AstroCalc/Transits tool: cosmetic fix for custom markers
- Changed Satellites plugin: improve guessing GALILEO satellites
- Changed core: refactoring the support of the on-screen stars names (GH: #1951, #2005)
- Changed the core: replace QRegExp occurrences
- Changed mouse navigation behaviour (GH: #1317, #2086, #2089)
- Updated minimum requirements: Qt 5.9
- Updated instructions for building Stellarium from source code (GH: #1927)
- Updated GUI of Satellites plugin: cosmetic fixes
- Updated list of exoplanet detection methods
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated list of active developers
- Updated planetary nomenclature
- Updated list of base locations
- Updated the code of core: refactoring
- Updated translations of sky cultures
- Updated translations of 3D sceneries
- Updated translations of landscapes
- Updated translations of GUI
- Updated the description of Chinese sky culture and fixed some issues (GH: #1952)
- Updated reference in Calendars plugin
- Updated pulsars catalog
- Updated documents for Scripting Engine
- Updated Stellarium User Guide
- Updated code for select priority and cosmetic fixes (GH: #2098)
- Updated code for tooltips in AstroCalc/Graphs tools (GH: #2110)
- Updated Babylonian (mulapin) sky culture
- Removed dead code
- Removed outdated code and data
- Removed Arabic Moon Stations sky culture (GH: #2064)
New in Stellarium 0.21.2 (Sep 29, 2021)
- The major changes of this version:
- Annual aberration correction. Planet positions are finally very accurate!
- Bookmarks replaced by Observation Lists
- Politically neutral geonames
- Right-click opens plugin configuration
- Improved computation of rising, transit, setting times
- "Goto next twilight" functionality
- Two new Greek skycultures
- Updated Mul-Apin skyculture with new artwork
- Improved fidelity of Lunar eclipses
- Fixed display of stellar proper motion
- Many fixes in core and plugins
- Full list of changes:
- Added a twilight altitude setting and twilight-finding actions to StelObjectMgr (GH: #1852, #484)
- Added extraString capabilities to StelObjectMgr (GH: #1852)
- Added missing time zones
- Added 2 new greek skycultures (GH: #1850)
- Added unit tests for JPL DE440/DE441 ephemeris
- Added greatest digression to Infostring (GH: #1885)
- Added constellation info for AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Added tooltip for AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Added barium stars filter for Search and AstroCalc tools
- Added option to toggle the method of drawing Sun's corona (GH: #971)
- Added support right click for buttons (GH: #1843)
- Added alternative definition of elongation (GH: #1786)
- Added support of geographical regions (politically neutral toponyms) (GH: #1844, #1808, #1135, #1125, #894)
- Added tooltips to list of skycultures in the GUI
- Added support the annual aberration (GH: #1626, #1272, #1115, #84)
- Added custom max fov stop (GH: #1836)
- Added DeltaT output in seconds for Scripting Engine
- Added Observing lists feature (GH: #1816)
- Added unobvious behavior for selection the celestial body when Graphs tab is opened
- Added extra data for satellite into GUI of Satellites plugin (GH: #1785)
- Added new language: English (India)
- Added ability of displaying number of exoplanets in the system near designation of host star
- Added support minimum altitude for Rise/Transit/Set times in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1089)
- Fixed visual style of the magnitude output data
- Fixed rendering graphs when the AstroCalc/Graphs tab is closed (GH: #1852)
- Fixed coordinates for NGC 2379 (DSO Catalog v3.13)
- Fixes and improvements of backward compatibility layer for support the regions and countries
- Fixed displaying the proper motion data (GH: #1787)
- Fixed empty items in Search/Lists tool for stars
- Fixed proper motion data in AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #1787)
- Fixed HiDPI issue for GUI of Scenery 3D plugin
- Fixed displaying meteor showers search dialog (GH: #1854)
- Fixed drawing spiky halo for Solar system bodies (GH: #1805)
- Fixed behavior of the Online Query plug-in button (GH: #1806)
- Fixed WS-2020-0368 issue in zlib (GH: #1807)
- Fixed search stars by additional English names
- Fixed translations for splash screen (GH: #1817)
- Fixed location of CR 36 (Collinder 36) (GH: #1827)
- Fixed crash Online Query Plug-in (GH: #1821)
- Fixed distanes for PGC galaxies (GH: #1922)
- Fixed computation of max elevations in AstroCalc tool
- Changed Observability plugin: disabled RTS display in the plugin to avoid duplicate the data (GH: #1852)
- Changed the core: added better solutions to RTS (rise-transit-set times) for fixed objects and planets (GH: #1852, #554)
- Changed core: enabled nutation for -4000...+8000 for better comparison with reference solutions
- Changed behaviour of AstroCalc/Graphs tool: the AstroCalc/Graphs/Graph tool now can work on Earth only (GH: #1925)
- Changed behaviour of AstroCalc tool: Inhibit updates when dialog invisible (GH: #1920)
- Updated the behaviour of the GUI in Search Tool: force focus on entry line when recalling (GH: #1874)
- Updated the behaviour of the AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: exclude outdated solar system objects (GH: #1880)
- Updated descriptions of sky cultures
- Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin
- Updated QXlsx library
- Updated Stellarium User Guide
- Updated list of locations
- Updated list of languages
- Updated list of geographical regions
- Updated list of planetary nomenclature
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Updated common names of DSO
- Updated common names of the stars
- Updated boundaries in Chinese skycultures (GH: #1919)
- Updated translations
- Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: improve the performance of computations (GH: #1910)
- Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: avoid lots of computations (GH: #1904)
- Updated Solar System Editpr plugin: better intuitive sorting of MPC list by padding (GH: #1835)
- Removed few Chinese dialects/languages: we will keep only zh_CN, zh_SG, zh_HK and zh_TW locales for Chinese
- Removed outdated translations
- Removed list of countries (GH: #1844, #1808, #1135, #1125, #894)
- Removed Bookmarks feature (GH: #1816)
- Removed the duplicate for Tr 2 cluster
New in Stellarium 0.21.1 (Jun 25, 2021)
- The major changes of this version:
- Updated designations of stars and handling of list of designations and common names those stars
- Updated Almagest and al-Sufi skycultures
- Many changes in plugins
- Many fixes in core and plugins for support HiDPI devices
- Enhancements in visualization of markings and in scripting engine
- Full list of changes:
- Added new plugin: OnlineQueries (GH: #355, #962)
- Added disabling the proportional DSO hints in Oculars plugin in eyepiece mode (GH: #1572)
- Added ability to get the lunar eclipse magnitudes through scripting (GH: #747)
- Added marker of the center of Earth's shadow (GH: #1687)
- Added workaround to displaying labels for umbra and penumbra (GH: #1560)
- Added an attempt to fix the misplaced location on the planet map (GH: #1026)
- Added tool to toggle visibility of intercardinal (or ordinal) directions and secondary intercardinal directions
- Added scriptable method for panning the view a predetermined amount (degrees per seconds)
- Added option for toggle place of the measurement' visibility for Angle Measure plugin (GH: #1708)
- Added actions to intercardinal and secondary intercardinal points
- Added support proper motion for pulsars
- Added code to recognition 3 new groups of satellites: IRNSS, TDRSS and QZSS
- Added 2 new methods into scripting engine
- Added a splitter in the satellite tab in the Satellites plugin (GH: #1696)
- Added a reminder in the Description box in the Satellites plugin (GH: #1696)
- Added ability to load an "old" telescopes (GH: #1651)
- Added single asterism selection mode (GH: #541, #921)
- Added meteor shower code/ID to search result table (GH: #1663)
- Added support untranslatable names (like designations) for stars and DSO (skycultures)
- Added 3 new scriptable methods into ConstellationMgr class
- Added few new DSO textures
- Added cosmetic fix for long list of designations for stars: split the data on few lines
- Added cosmetic fix for long list of proper names for stars: split the data on few lines
- Added scriptable methods for isolated selection of asterisms by the name (GH: #541, #921)
- Added version number in file name for extended DSO catalog to improve data handling (GH: #1433)
- Added missing ability to saving and loading values for 'Draw only polygon' and 'Thickness of line in pixels' options (LP: 1923489)
- Added backward compatibility layer for scripting engine for search and select operation
- Added scaling factor for line thickness on HiDPI devices (GH: #1618)
- Added new nomenclature for Solar system bodies
- Added computation shadow phenomena (Transits of shadow and eclipses) for planets with moons in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1563)
- Added context for second name of beta Gemini to avoid conflict with constellation name (GH: #1599)
- Added carbon stars filter for Search and AstroCalc tools (GH: #1583)
- Added section "Moons of first body" into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1563)
- Added Polar Circles into ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #1555, #1573)
- Added two custom altitude lines into ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #1573)
- Added ability to grabbing declination/azimuth/altitude data from selected object into ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #1573)
- Added ability to direct selection of locations from Stellarium's location list into ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #1573)
- Added ability to handling Stellarium scripts by file extension on macOS
- Fixed correctly saving sensor rotation angle (GH: #1756)
- Fixed sorting hotkeys info in Help window (almost full synced with Keyboard shortcuts editor) (GH: #443)
- Fixed scaling planets and the Sun by viewed through eyepiece (GH: #1578)
- Fixed typo's in Almagest SC description (GH: #1745, #1746)
- Fixed display cardinal labels when NLS is disabled
- Fixed displaying the native names of planets (GH: #1273)
- Fixed work the method core.setObserverLocation() when planet is not defined (GH: #1749)
- Fixed display of hotkeys (e.g. native look for macOS' hotkeys) in Help window
- Fixed proper names
- Fixed designation for 2 UMa
- Fixed UI text issue for binoculars in the Oculars plugin (GH: #1738)
- Fixed flip issue for compass rose in the Oculars plugin (GH: #1535)
- Fixed selection the newest added device in Oculars plugin
- Fixed handling of the designations for variable and double stars
- Fixed crash for the OnlineQueries plugin
- Fixed show text in Angle Measure plugin on the HiDPI devices
- Fixed display multiline AKA list for DSO
- Fixed compiling INDILib by MSVC2019
- Fixed crash when any device added into Oculars plugin (GH: #1673)
- Fixed horizontal & vertical flip defect in Oculars plugin (GH: #1535, #1678)
- Fixed bug in scripting engine
- Fixed dead links in Stellarium User Guide (GH: #1694, #1692)
- Fixed tabbing order in the Satellites plugin (GH: #1696)
- Fixed cross-identification data for HIP stars (GH: #1657)
- Fixed visibility of planet labels: the visibility of planet label is depend by extinction magnitude now (GH: #1652)
- Fixed AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: added missing category for compute shadows phenomena
- Fixed HiDPI issues in Script Console
- Fixed show labels in scripts on the HiDPI devices (no need a rewriting scripts for HiDPI monitors)
- Fixed search Hydra as a constellation and as moon in the Bookmarks tool (GH: #1609)
- Fixed logical issue in StelSkyDrawer class
- Fixed displaying cardinals on poles (no cardinals!)
- Fixed mistakes for designations of double stars from Struve's appendices catalogs (GH: #1604)
- Changing visualization an atmosphere on the Galilean satellites: All Galilean satellites has atmosphere, but too thin of course (pressure at surface lesser 1 Pa), so, let's turn-off the atmosphere on this moons (GH: #1676).
- Updated AstroCalc tools (GH: #1679)
- Updated GUI of AstroCalc tools
- Updated Almagest SC: use almstars catalogues to improve sky culture (GH: #1647)
- Updated al-Sufi skyculture
- Updated native names of planets
- Updated Help window: added special local hotkeys info (GH: #1679)
- Updated Stellarium User Guide
- Updated handling the designations of stars
- Updated Bayer and Flamsteed designations of stars
- Updated Angle Measure plugin: change mouse cursor in angle measure mode (GH: #1698, #1707)
- Updated the installer for Windows: added links to Stellarium User Guide and ANGLE mode of Stellarium on the desktop
- Updated scripts
- Updated default catalogs in the plug-ins
- Updated texture for M51
- Updated list of locations
- Updated Oculars plugin (GH: #1633)
- Updated Satellites plugin: added description for China's space station and updated default TLE catalog
- Updated proper names of stars
- Updated Russian translations of skycultures description (GH: #1645)
- Updated support the double stars data: added ability to use multiple designations for double stars
- Updated support the double stars data: revised all designations of double stars
- Updated support the double stars data: uses parameters for double stars according to latest WDS data
- Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: Section "Sun, planets and moons" renamed into "Sun, planets and moons of observer location" (GH: #1563)
- Updated ArchaeoLines plugin: replace angle DoubleSpinBoxes by AngleSpinBoxes (supersedes GH: #1447)
- Updated core: added QTextEdit StelProperty connections (GH: #1573)
- Updated core: added property connector code for AngleSpinBox (GH: #1573)
- Updated core: added code for AngleSpinBox to make sure cursor position does not change while mouse-wheeling an angle (GH: #1573)
- Removed the resetting tracking the objects in Oculars plugin (GH: #1680)
- Removed support the config option AngleMeasure/enable_at_startup to avoid automatically enabling the Angle Measure plugin at startup of planetarium (GH: #1698)
- Removed bad URL in Western skyculture info.ini file (GH: #1720)
- Removed support for legacy QGLWidget rendering
New in Stellarium 0.21.0 (Mar 29, 2021)
- The major changes of this version:
- We have finally completed our work on accurate planet axes, including Lunar libration
- Visualisation of Earth shadow for Lunar eclipses
- Better texture for the Lunar surface
- Added the latest algorithms for planet magnitudes
- Enhanced Calendars plugin
- Replaced "arabic" by more accurate "al-Sufi" skyculture
- Planets are now scalable and Solar glare switchable for didactic applications
- Full list of changes:
- Added accurate planet axis orientation and rotation (GH: #502, #151):
- Added lunar libration (GH: #877)
- Added lines for the Invariable Plane and Projected Solar Equator (GH: #358)
- Added solar altitude to planetary feature nomenclature
- Added describe planetary coordinates and changes in the nomenclature display into Stellarium User Guide
- Added new language: Spanish (Latin America)
- Added ability to scaling of Sun and planets (GH: #1263)
- Added new magnitude algorithms for planets from Mallama&Hilton 2018 (GH: #574)
- Added Earth shadow circles for topocentric observer (GH: #430)
- Added new 4k texture for the Moon (required re-balancing planet shader brightness)
- Added lower limit for aFOV parameter of ocular in the GUI to avoid input wrong data (GH: #1487)
- Added visibility of an antisolar point for other planets (GH: #1481)
- Added ability to get all designations of DSO in scripts (GH: #1477)
- Added ability to show hourly motion in decimal degrees (GH: #1478)
- Added more cardinal points (GH: #1522, #1529)
- Added ability to switching off drawing of Solar glare (GH: #1538)
- Added a new sky culture based on Al-Sufi "Book of Fixed Stars" written ~ 964 AD (GH: #1548)
- Added Old Hindu calendars
- Added Islamic (algorithmic) and Hebrew calendar.
- Added French Revolution calendar (arithmetic version)
- Added Persian (arithmetic) calendar
- Added button to set standard atmosphere
- Added ability to translation/transliteration of Roman (latin) terms (GH: #1511)
- Added ability to use UTC time when navigational stars are displayed (GH: #1416)
- Added acknowledgment section into Help/About window (GH: #1568)
- Added cosmetic fix for radio communication data: no need extra precision to show data in Satellites plugin
- Fixed compatibility of ToneReproducer shader with GLES (GH: #1549, #1550)
- Fixed retranslation of calendars (GH: #1545)
- Fixed vertical position of calendar info panel
- Fixed height-dependent twinkle for star-like objects (GH: #1542)
- Fixed capturing a screenshots under macOS High Sierra and later (GH: #102)
- Fixed documentation for API
- Fixed display the extincted magnitudes for all objects
- Fixed reading textures (GH: #1547)
- Fixed alignment of an intercardinal direction markers (GH: #1552)
- Fixed work of multisampling mode when in Spout isn't used (GH: #1537)
- Fixed visualization zodiacal light at low Bortle values (GH: #1489, #1510)
- Fixed the drawing a degrees on compass on HiDPI devices
- Fixed search short phrases (GH: #1528)
- Fixed orientation of Jupiter, Uranus and Venus (GH: #357)
- Fixed inexact rotation of Moon (GH: #347)
- Fixed wrong rendering of Jupiter (GH: #1261)
- Fixed incorrect moon terminator (GH: #973)
- Fixed a skybox.ssc script (GH: #1461)
- Fixed crash when trails are enabled (GH: #1471)
- Fixed crash when choosing Zero Horizon landscape (GH: #1466)
- Fixed displaying labels of coordinate grids on HiDPI devices (GH: #1445)
- Fixed a labeling hour angles (GH: #1457)
- Fixed API docs
- Fixed styles of QMessageBox and QColorDialog (GH: #1451)
- Fixed WUI of Remote Control plugin
- Fixed HiDPI issue for Observability plugin
- Fixed the placement of cardinal marks when compass mark is enabled on the HiDPI devices
- Fixed placement of the value of equation of time for HiDPI devices
- Fixed crash at exit (GH: #1479)
- Fixed work of Spout mode: inhibit multisampling when in Spout mode (GH: #1507)
- Fixed DOI link for "Calendrical Calculations" (GH: #1562, #1566)
- Fixed missing strings for translation (GH: #1562, #1566)
- Fixed tooltips and placeholders (GH: #1562, #1566)
- Fixed comments for translators (GH: #1562, #1566)
- Fixed updating placement of calendars when visibility of calendars are changed (GH: #1567)
- Fixed artifacts in the GUI when language is changed
- Fixed images and typos in Stellarium User Guide
- Fixed bibliography in Stellarium User Guide
- Fixed the figure of Virgo constellation (GH: #1570)
- Fixed stupid typos in satellites.json file
- Fixed illumination during Lunar eclipse in Scenery 3D plugin (GH: #1506)
- Fixed behavior "Clear" button in Script Console (GH: #1499)
- Fixed lunar magnitude: try an accurate Lunar magnitude formula (GH: #1350)
- Fixed lunar eclipses: redo the eclipse push effect for lunar eclipses
- Fixed behavior of Bookmarks tool when pressed button "cancel" in import dialog (GH: #1497)
- Fixed Mesa mode for Windows (GH: #1551)
- Fixed multisampling on non-Windows systems (GH: #1553)
- Fixed typos in Al-Sufi skyculture
- Fixed bug for calculation the leap years: restore leap year rule in our astronomical year counting
- Updated translations
- Updated translations of landscapes descriptions
- Updated translations of 3D sceneries descriptions
- Updated translations of skycultures descriptions
- Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1520)
- Updated planetary features data
- Updated building instructions for Windows (GH: #1444)
- Updated core: slight restructuring of Planets, Comets, MinorPlanets, SolarSystem loader
- Updated core: using data from WGCCRE reports 2009, 2015 and Explanatory Supplement to the AA 2013 (with error fixed by the 1992 ed.) for rotation elements
- Updated core: keeps original Stellarium planet rotation model (undocumented) where new rotation elements are unavailable
- Updated core: make StelToneReproducer's xyYToRGB.glsl core function reusable (GH: #1468)
- Updated code of INDI client to version 1.8.5
- Updated code for building Stellarium without NLS and Scripting support
- Updated GUI (GH: #1204)
- Updated Satellites plugin
- Updated default satellites database
- Updated GUI of Navigational stars plugin
- Updated default pulsars catalog
- Updated description of supernovae plugin (GH: #500)
- Updated description of calendars plugin in Stellarium User Guide
- Removed proper name for NGC 2194 (GH: #1530)
- Removed Arabic skyculture: Arabic SC was replaced by more accurate "al-Sufi" skyculture
New in Stellarium 0.20.4 (Dec 28, 2020)
- Added Balinese Pawukon calendar into Calendars plugin
- Added notes on polygonal landscapes (technical restrictions) (GH: #1397)
- Added Calendars plugin (GH: #1343)
- Added configurable values for quick FOV tool (GH: #1391)
- Added new zoom algorithm (GH: #1415, #529)
- Added compass marks into core of planetarium
- Added ability to hide cardinal and compass buttons from the GUI
- Added missing time zone America/Godthab
- Added few DSO textures (GH: #1402, #1441)
- Added Galactic Center and Anticenter points
- Added a config option to use multisampling for rendering "Planet"s (GH: #1388)
- Added landers from the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program into list of locations
- Added on-screen controls for OAG in Oculars plugin (GH: #935)
- Added table view of exoplanets (GH: #1141)
- Added show angular distance between the moon and host planet (GH: #1372)
- Added classical cepheids filter for AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Added Algol-type eclipsing systems filter for AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1355)
- Added ability to toggle to using decimal degrees for various navigational data through follow the option "Use decimal degrees" in the main GUI (GH: #1344)
- Added script with shortcut, which add ability to jump to random location for celestial navigation game and practice (GH: #1345, #1058)
- Added support flip commands into Scripting Engine (GH: #1351)
- Added new language: Central Atlas Tamazight
- Added comet icon for ephemeris points plotting for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1332)
- Added script skybox.ssc into list of translatable scripts (GH: #1335)
- Added config option to hide selection markers (default: viewing/flag_show_selection_marker = true) (GH: #1321)
- Added export list of objects as Stellarium bookmarks into AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Added support capital Greek chars in Search Tool (GH: #1282)
- Added some discoverer’s original designation for double stars as their scientific designations (GH: #1282)
- Added option to hide unlabelled ephemeris markers (GH: #1315)
- Added ability to run the silent uninstall Stellarium in Windows
- Added ability use decimals value for ephemeris steps in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1289)
- Added "No" default for deletion confirmation warning (GH: #1292)
- Added ability to toggle show extra decimals in the navigational info (GH: #1303)
- Added tool for build an AppImage package (GH: #1288)
- Added ability for following an option ''Use decimal degrees" for longitude and latitude in Location dialog to define format of data (GH: #1416)
- Fixed collision calendars panel with bottom button bar (GH: #1422)
- Fixed zooming to FOV when duration is zero (GH: #1430)
- Fixed designations for star HIP 62819 (GH: #1432)
- Fixed crash when attempting to add a sensor (GH: #1407, #1403)
- Fixed UMa figure in S&T skyculture (GH: #1414)
- Fixed typos in Chinese skyculture (GH: #1413)
- Fixed text for meteor showers plugin (GH: #1387)
- Fixed the visual style of color chooser (GH: #1395)
- Fixed GUI of AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed error in GUI of AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Fixed errors in documents for scripting engine
- Fixed typos and errors in various sky cultures
- Fixed running scripting method core.quitStellarium(); (GH: #1363)
- Fixed the location of Dunsink Observatory (GH: #1370)
- Fixed rendering orbits with undefined period
- Fixed orbital elements for comet Halley (1986) in the default ssystem_minor.ini file
- Fixed typos in skycultures
- Fixed odd cyclic behaviour of HiPS (GH: #1323)
- Fixed odd survey interaction (GH: #1314)
- Fixed crash when reference.fab file has wrong format
- Fixed closing various dialogs (fix #1305, #1338)
- Fixed sorting issue in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Fixed search stars by designations (u Her and U Her are different stars!) (GH: #1282)
- Fixed adding extra designations for stars, who already has Bayer and Flamsteed designations (GH: #1282)
- Fixed sorting stars by their designations (partially) (GH: #1282)
- Fixed selecting invisible stars (GH: #1331)
- Fixed switch to native planet names when skyculture is changed in Location dialog (GH: #1203)
- Fixed installing star names for Western (O.Hlad) skyculture (GH: #1170)
- Fixed typecast: avoiding of jumping the markers of exoplanets and pulsars (GH: #1286)
- Fixed handling custom shortcuts and few spell-check fixes
- Fixed GUI issue in Observability plugin
- Fixed inconsistency of NGC/IC list in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1310)
- Fixed filling version info for Windows installer
- Fixed installer for Windows
- Fixed translatable string for Icelandic calendar
- Fixed Puppis constellation lines in S&T skyculture (GH: #1438)
- Fixed Mensa and Microscopium in S&T skyculture (GH: #1440)
- Changed rendering planets: improve planets' halos size in relation to stars' (GH: #1361, #367)
- Changed rendering of orbits in Satellites plugin: Hide invisible part of orbits when "hide invisible artificial sats" option is enabled (GH: #1349)
- Changed GUI behavior: Enlarged maximum dialog size (GH: #1318)
- Changed versioning scheme of Stellarium
- Changed few DSO textures: reduce the size of some texture files (GH: #1442)
- Updated Stellarium User Guide (GH: #1334)
- Updated DSO catalog (v3.12)
- Updated GUI of Calendars plugin
- Updated GUI: refactored block "Additional buttons"
- Updated description of Chinese skyculture (GH: #1410)
- Updated Bengali descriptions for landscapes and skycultures (GH: #1380)
- Updated nomenclature data
- Updated few DSO outlines (GH: #1368)
- Updated initial time steps for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #372)
- Updated Solar System Editor pluign: improve docs + added confirmation dialog (GH: #1304)
- Updated DSO names
- Updated upper limit for font size
- Updated GUI of AstroCalc tools
- Updated Exoplanets plugin: added extra info
- Updated Satellites plugin: cosmetic improvement the handling the visibility of satellites by their groups
- Removed Compass Marks plugin
- Removed the XPM version of the app icon (GH: #1384)
- Removed dead links from skycultures
- Removed support of shortcuts from AstroCalc tools (GH: #1293)
New in Stellarium 0.20.3 (Sep 28, 2020)
- Added sorting for Bookmark dialog (GH: #1144)
- Added B pass band for compute photometric values of nebulae
- Added missing QPushButton:checked style matching 'pressed' (GH: #1150)
- Added show standard magnitude and RCS info for satellites in the GUI of Satellites plugin
- Added new filters for satellites
- Added GUI buttons to define object information font color at daylight and for overwrite mode (GH: #1156)
- Added 2 new columns for AstroCalc/Positions tool (Elevation and Elongation)
- Added editable keyboard shortcut for buttons in AstroCalc tools (GH: #1165, #1166)
- Added allowance to loading bookmark without date/location change (GH: #882)
- Added new initial time steps in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1162)
- Added option to use on the screen star designations only (GH: #1169)
- Added option in the GUI to define color of text in Equation of Time plugin
- Added new button into Shortcut Editor and added new tool to restoring defaults
- Added action to restart trails (GH: #1030)
- Added "current vertical" line (GH: #1175)
- Added support custom time steps for ephemeris in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1176)
- Added ability to show several objects' ephemerides in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1177)
- Added using texture for satellite, when he crossing of the Moon or the Sun
- Added automatic saving changes of satellites properties in Satellites plugin (GH: #1066)
- Added instructions for building Stellarium from source code
- Added new groups of satellites: all new groups of satellites based on their orbital properties
- Added info about altitude classifications for geocentric orbits in Satellites plugin
- Added pixel grid for sensors to Ocular plugin (GH: #1198)
- Added keyboard shortcut for toggle focuser overlay to Oculars plugin
- Added keyboard shortcuts to toggle sensor crop overlay to Oculars plugin
- Added keyboard shortcuts to toggle sensor pixel grid to Oculars plugin
- Added show a binning info for CCD to Oculars GUI Panel
- Added option into GUI to toggle drawing halo around the Moon (GH: #914)
- Added keep selection of ephemeris item when coordinate system is changed in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1199)
- Added keyboard handling in additional to mouse selection for visualization of selected marker in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #1200)
- Added new way to select ocular elements to Oculars plugin: You can now switch between various ocular elements through double-click on the items (eyepieces/lenses/telescopes/sensors) in the main menu of the Oculars plugin (GH: #1193)
- Added small improvement for sensor view mode to Oculars plugin: the cross in the center was modify: it rotating by 45° now and has a permanent size in 10 px (GH: #1206)
- Added small improvement for sensor view mode to Oculars plugin: the text about the crop size now may be marked by [*] for 2 reasons: the crop size is larger than sensor size or when crop size is not multiple of binning (GH: #1206)
- Added fix for better handling of comet orbit visualisation
- Added planet name for nomenclature item as context data: better in search dialog and makes unique strings
- Added new names for planetary features
- Added tool to remember last entered objects in Search tool (GH: #1050, #1168)
- Added enforce updates for Lists in Search tool to get an variable parts of list (GH: #1226)
- Added star names for Western (O. Hlad) sky culture (GH: #1170)
- Added key binding for toggle visibility of groups of satellites (GH: #982)
- Added new categories for AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1230)
- Added new category for AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #1230)
- Added methods to search DSO when they have coordinates in disabled catalogs (esp. for the Bookmark tool and some AstroCalc tools)
- Added CLI option to start Stellarium in scaling GUI mode
- Added new group of objects "Solar system bodies: minor bodies" to predict opposition of asteroids into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added note to S&T sky culture (GH: #1244)
- Added including name of a bookmarked Marker object for highlights (GH: #1260)
- Added including designation of a bookmarked object without common name for highlights
- Added support of new type of labels (labelEquatorial) for scripting engine
- Added 3 new groups of satellites
- Added tool to disable an inherited options in Oculars plugin
- Added tool to define value of transparency of the semi-transparent mask in eyepiece mode in Oculars plugin
- Added buttons to define special colors for satellites in Satellites plugin
- Added International Designator info into the GUI of Satellites plugin
- Added epoch of the TLE info into GUI of Satellites plugin
- Added tooltips for both identifiers of satellites (Satellites plugin)
- Added full names of groups as tooltips for wrapped names of groups (Satellites plugin)
- Added a confirmation dialog for "Restore defaults" buttons (GH: #1277)
- Fixed nutation and, with it, season beginning times
- Fixed behaviour of AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Fixed list of locations: remove duplicates of observatories
- Fixed possible error in calculating the Contrast Index of nebulae (GH: #1145)
- Fixed activity of button to switch in sources tab of Satellites plugin
- Fixed small GUI issue when satellite tracking is enabled
- Fixed crash for landscapes with added polygon (GH: #1143, #1179)
- Fixed drawing satellite orbits
- Fixed buttons background in Solar System Editor plugin
- Fixed documents for enabling custom HiPS (GH: #1159)
- Fixed display date format in main GUI
- Fixed automatic setting of size for columns in shortcuts editor
- Fixed trails related properties in SolarSystem (GH: #1030)
- Fixed spurious recreation of trails (GH: #1030)
- Fixed fade out for trails (GH: #1030)
- Fixed behaviour of GUI options for planetary orbits and trails
- Fixed changes in trails when time stopped (GH: #1174)
- Fixed main GUI issue
- Fixed AstroCalc GUI issue
- Fixed few tooltips
- Fixed few translatable lines in the standard GUI
- Fixed remember customized object informations settings (GH: #1184)
- Fixed translation special groups after change the language in Satellites plugin
- Fixed size of buttons in the GUI of the Satellites plugin
- Fixed availability of "Remove satellites" button in the GUI of the Satellites plugin
- Fixed linguistic issue in the GUI of main application and plugins
- Fixed switch to native planet names when skyculture is changed in AstroCalc tools (GH: #1203)
- Fixed keyboard jumps for GUI of the Oculars plugin
- Fixed saving properties of Special Markers (GH: #1201)
- Fixed errors in DSO catalog (SNR G subsystem; GH: #1208)
- Fixed calculation an approximate visual magnitude for Starlink DarkSat
- Fixed find an initial step for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1219)
- Fixed handling of keyboard shortcuts: saving an empty keyboard shortcuts allow to stay primary and alternative shortcuts as they was defined by user (GH: #1222)
- Fixed translation of key binding description for "Field of View" feature when language is changed
- Fixed saving keyboard shortcuts
- Fixed rounding issue (GH: #1153)
- Fixed security issue in RemoteControl plugin (GH: #1233)
- Fixed load of location from landscape at startup (GH: #1237)
- Fixed the Reticulum system object designation (GH: #1250)
- Fixed restore scaling for minor bodies in Oculars plugin (GH: #1258)
- Fixed GUI behaviour for AstroCalc tool (GH: #1230)
- Fixed misprints and typos in Chinese sky cultures (GH: #1266, #1268)
- Fixed issue an including regions (or DSO without designations) as bookmarks (GH: #1267)
- Fixed parser of COSPAR ID data (International Designator) in Satellites plugin
- Fixed apply transit color for satellites in the iconic mode (GH: #1279)
- Fixed star magnitude limits in Oculars plugin: better handling of auto-computed or manually set limiting magnitudes (GH: #400, #1285)
- Changed default value for flag "displayed" of satellites
- Changed limits of properties for orbital lines of satellites (GH: #1148)
- Changed button labels in Bookmarks tool (GH: #916)
- Changed trails behaviour: don't reset trails when just adapting thickness (GH: #1030)
- Changed trails behaviour: disable trails for "observer" planets (GH: #1030)
- Changed trails behaviour: handle removal of trails with time moving backwards (GH: #1030)
- Changed trails behaviour: reset trails when time jumps too far (GH: #1030)
- Changed limits for focal length of eyepices and magnification of binoculars (GH: #1178)
- Changed upper limit for angular filter of DSO
- Changed GUI for manage sources of TLE in the Satellites plugin (GH: #738)
- Changed behaviour: re-enabled scrolling to newly added locations
- Changed behaviour: disabled button to toggle crosshairs for eyepieces with permanent crosshairs (GH: #1247)
- Changed upper limit for FOV markers (special + Telrad/Oculars): the limits was increased up to 28 degrees for circular/Telrad FOV and up to 180 degrees for rectangular FOV (GH: #1196)
- Changed the priority level of drawing for Observability Analysis plugin (GH: #1194)
- Changed modeling Starlink magnitudes: calculation of approx. visual magnitude for Starlink satellites based on Anthony Mallama's paper
- Changed text of warning for mismatch of version of DSO catalog: improved an error message for the user
- Changed behaviour of dialog rendering: disable dialog render cache (GH: #830, #393, #1007)
- Changed behaviour of polygonal landscapes: get rid of a configuration flag (GH: #1239)
- Changed limits for allow separation input field (up to 20 degrees) in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Changed initial time steps for some type of objects in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Changed selection of celestial bodies behaviour for oppositions in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Changed behaviour of Telescope Control plugin: re-enabled the option to autoconnect ASCOM-based mounts (GH: #1269, #1243, #1164)
- Changed behaviour of Oculars plugin: the input box to define the scale factor of arrows was changed to use percentage
- Changed distance between buttons "Restore defaults" and "Save settings" in the GUI of plugins (GH: #1277)
- Updated minimum required Qt version to 5.7.0 (GH: #1138)
- Updated Indian Vedic sky culture: Nakshatras and Rashis as stars, asterisms and constellations. (GH: #930)
- Updated URL of main website to use HTTPS (GH: #1139)
- Updated tool to check version of satellites.json file (reducing a number of upgrading the file)
- Updated code for search stars by designations (code refactoring)
- Updated HiPS tool: switched to retrieve of HiPS properties from MocServer
- Updated code: solve a few casting warnings
- Updated code: sanitize type mismatches
- Updated code: removed obsolete QSignalMapper
- Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin
- Updated list of contributors of Oculars plugin
- Updated Milky Way texture: deleted Spica's glow
- Updated translations (GH: #1210, #1211)
- Updated the technical notes to the Satellites plugin
- Updated translations of landscapes description
- Updated translations of sky cultures description
- Updated 3D scenery: increase brightness of Sterngarten model materials
- Updated default list of satellites
- Updated three DSO textures (GH: #1271)
- Updated GUI for updating data for Meteor showers plugin
- Updated GUI for updating data for Historical supernovae plugin
- Updated GUI for updating data for Bright novae plugin
- Updated GUI for updating data for Pulsars plugin
- Updated GUI for updating data for Quasars plugin
- Updated GUI for updating data for Satellites plugin
- Updated GUI for updating data for Exoplanets plugin
- Removed the observers from calculations in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Removed limits for declination of objects in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1162)
- Removed sort rules from AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1229)
- Removed unused pixel size in Oculars plugin (GH: #432)
- Removed unused data and code (code refactoring)
- Removed orbit_visualisation_period parameter for comets in Solar System Editor plugin
- Removed "Save changes" button from the GUI of the Satellites plugin
- Removed the step "remove data from previous installation" from Windows installer
- Removed outdated documents
- Removed outdated code
New in Stellarium 0.20.2 (Jul 21, 2020)
- Added rectangular sensor crop overlay support [Oculars] (GH: #1069)
- Added support newly marker in Search Tool (Position and Settings tabs) [Search Tool]
- Added new features for scripting engine: extend the JavaScript classes corresponding to Vec3f and Vec3d [Scripting]
- Added options to be able to define and use custom FOV circles for Telrad [Oculars] (GH: #1057)
- Added VecMath tests for the new functions (GH: #1055)
- Added VecMath feature: Vector/QColor conversions (GH: #1055)
- Added feature to set current date and time as initial data when AstroCalc/Ephemeris is open [AstroCalc]
- Added notification for user when version of DSO catalog is mismatched
- Added support Trumpler Catalogue (Tr or Trumpler) [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
- Added support Stock Catalogue (St or Stock) [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
- Added support Ruprecht Catalogue (Ru or Ruprecht) [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
- Added support "van den Bergh-Hagen Catalogue" (VdB-Ha) [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
- Added support search by long name for Trumpler, Stock, Ruprecht, Collinder and Melotte catalogues [DSO Catalog, v3.10]
- Added new type of DSO objects: region of the sky [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #1067)
- Added special case for improve DSO regions visibility [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #1067)
- Added outlines for DSO regions [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #1067)
- Added marker of center of FOV on the sky [Special Markers]
- Added circular marker of FOV on the sky [Special Markers]
- Added rectangular marker of FOV on the sky [Special Markers]
- Added tool for adjustable thickness of the planetary trails (GH: #1087)
- Added tool for adjustable line thickness for ephemeris lines (GH: #1087)
- Added tool for adjustable thickness of the planetary orbits
- Added a column, showing the elevation of the object at transit times into AstroCalc/WUT tool [AstroCalc] (GH: #1089)
- Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: regions of the sky [AstroCalc]
- Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: pulsars (the category available if Pulsars plugin is loaded and pulsars are enabled to display) [AstroCalc]
- Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: bright nova stars (the category available if Bright Novae plugin is loaded) [AstroCalc]
- Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: bright supernova stars (the category available if Historical Supernovae plugin is loaded) [AstroCalc]
- Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: exoplanetary systems (the category available if Exoplanets plugin is loaded and exoplanets are enabled to display) [AstroCalc]
- Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: active galaxies (this category may include additional quasars if Quasars plugin is loaded and quasars are enabled to display) [AstroCalc]
- Added new category into AstroCalc/WUT tool: interacting galaxies [AstroCalc]
- Added new unit tests for DeltaT
- Added tool to guess the group of satellites by their names [Satellites]
- Added new groups of satellites [Satellites]
- Added method to check state of loading for the plugins
- Added column Elevation for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool [AstroCalc]
- Added default groups for some satellites from default JSON catalog [Satellites]
- Added missing tool for define color of regions of the sky
- Added regions of the sky into Lists of Search Tool [Search Tool]
- Added tool to export version of Stellarium through StelProperty and Remote Control plugin
- Added display of epoch of the TLE for artificial satellites [Satellites] (GH: #1096)
- Added new flag for InfoString of planets, comets and minor planets
- Added better arrangement of InfoString entries for planets, comets and minor planets
- Added highlighting for string literals between apostrophes for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Added highlighting for regular expressions for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Added highlighting for multiline comments for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Added highlighting for exponential numeric format for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Added highlighting for hexadecimal numeric literals for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Added separate highlighting of predefined names from that of keywords for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Added red highlighting for unknown methods of Stellarium modules for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Added highlighting for methods of StelSkyDrawer and core for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Added penumbral and umbral magnitudes during lunar eclipse (GH: #1113)
- Added comments for scripters [Scripting]
- Added radar cross-section (RCS) data for satellites [Satellites]
- Added calculate approximaged visual magnitude for satellites from their RCS value [Satellites]
- Added special case for set RCS value for Starlink satellites [Satellites]
- Added option to allow drawing of landscape polygon only, if a polygon is defined [Landscapes]
- Added option to allow a polygon to be drawn in the foreground (out of regular call sequence) [Landscapes]
- Added option to allow landscape polygon overdrawn onto the 3D scenery [Scenery3D]
- Fixed GUI and minor redesign of remaining icons [GUI] (GH: #752, #951)
- Added computation an approximated angular size of satellites (the linear size is obtained from RCS value and we use spherical shape for satellites) [Satellites]
- Added special case for computation an approximated angular size of ISS (we are defined linear size of ISS by "hands") [Satellites]
- Added tool to display a focuser overlay in the sensor view [Oculars] (GH: #1110)
- Added checking conflicts for keyboard shortcuts with informing user if conflicts are exist (GH: #1025)
- Added tool to rescale oversize textures on-the-fly (GH: #1121)
- Added show a fuchsia-colored replacement texture for wrong filename (GH: #1121)
- Added NORAD numbers in addition to name of artificial satellite in Satellites Import Dialog for available for search [Satellites]
- Added function to compute distance between locations, on a flattened planet, in km
- Added geographic coordinates of center line for total and annular solar eclipse (GH: #1116)
- Fixed security issue for jquery (CVE-2020-11022; GH: #1073)
- Fixed magnitudes for planetary nebulae [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #913)
- Fixed data for "Part of a Galaxy" objects [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #996)
- Fixed work for clipboard in Script Console tool: avoid effects caused by QTextEdit after copy-paste from HTML pages. [Scripting] (GH: #1070)
- Fixed telescope syncing for INDI [Telescope Control] (GH: #1065)
- Fixed “Uninitialized members” issue in Script Console [Scripting]
- Fixed VecMath features: moved vector/string conversion previously in StelUtils to the VecMath classes (GH: #1055)
- Fixed VecMath feature: moved un-inlineable definitions to separate cpp file (GH: #1055)
- Fixed proper motion output (GH: #1006, #1041)
- Fixed time delay with planet movement information (GH: #1006, #1103)
- Fixed cross-id data for open clusters [DSO Catalog, v3.10]
- Fixed designations for van den Bergh catalogues [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
- Fixed descriptions for van den Bergh catalogues [DSO Catalog, v3.10] (GH: #965)
- Fixed crash in scripting method core.setObserverLocation() when planet is not defined or not exist [Scripting]
- Fixed core.setObserverLocation() behaviour: avoid duplicating a country if script programmer provides one [Scripting] (GH: #1076)
- Fixed object type info for meteor showers [Meteor Showers]
- Fixed crash when lens are deleted in Oculars plugin [Oculars] (GH: #1078)
- Fixed (a temporary fix) crash Stellarium when autoconnect is enabled for ASCOM device, but device is not attached [Telescope Control] (GH: #928)
- Fixed wrong approximated visual magnitude of satellites [Satellites]
- Fixed guessing groups of satellites [Satellites]
- Fixed possible cache problem for magnitudes
- Fixed casting warnings
- Fixed topocentric/geocentric corrections for ArchaeoLines plugin [ArchaeoLines]
- Fixed crash AstroCalc/WUT tool when required plugin is not loaded [AstroCalc]
- Fixed docs and tooltips
- Fixed visibility of deep-sky regions of the sky
- Fixed work of regions of the sky in AstroCalc/Positions tool [AstroCalc]
- Fixed missing object in Bennett's list of deep-sky objects (switched to synonym of missed object) [Search Tool]
- Fixed missing object in Dunlop's list of deep-sky objects (switched to synonym of missed object) [Search Tool]
- Fixed visual style for dialog to define custom equation of DeltaT
- Fixed crossquarter declinations in ArchaeoLines plugin [ArchaeoLines]
- Fixed updating timezones when loading landscapes/sceneries
- Fixed updating location panel when off-screen
- Fixed a deprecation warning for InfoString of planets, comets and minor planets
- Fixed broken highlighting for quoted string literals for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Fixed broken highlighting for line comment for Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Fixed indentation problems in the code
- Fixed crash when removing already removed selection of constellations (GH: #1104)
- Fixed jumping of the Moon
- Fixed visibility for telescope selector when image sensor frame enabled after binocular [Oculars] (GH: #1108)
- Fixed saving thickness of the planetary trails and orbits
- Fixed context data for unit measure in Satellites plugin [Satellites]
- Fixed a stupid bug in ArchaeoLines [ArchaeoLines]
- Fixed sign of one element in the matrix sequence for nutation
- Fixed Scripting Engine bug: a script isn't terminated properly via the stop script button [Scripting] (GH: #1118)
- Fixed crash when texture isn't found (GH: #1121)
- Fixed the maximum size of CCD: increased limit of sensor size to 100000 pixels [Oculars] (GH: #1123)
- Fixed visual artifacts on the sky (GH: #475, #1126)
- Fixed bug in Vec3d constructor for scripting engine [Scripting]
- Fixed shader bug visible during Total Solar Eclipses only
- Updated default settings for InnoSetup Script (.iss) file
- Updated Stellarium User Guide
- Updated morphological classification of open clusters [DSO Catalog, v3.10]
- Updated subsystem to obtain the standard magnitudes of artificial satellites [Satellites]
- Updated method for load standard magnitudes and RCS data for satellites [Satellites]
- Updated size of window resize border to reduce difficulties to their resize (GH: #937, #1099)
- Updated InfoString block for artificial satellites [Satellites]
- Updated minimum height of artificial satellite to check the valid orbit [Satellites]
- Updated default source of Starlink TLE's [Satellites]
- Changed behaviour of GUI in Satellites tab in Satellites plugin [Satellites]
- Changed AstroCalc/WUT tool behaviour: radiogalaxies, active galaxies, quasars, blazars and BL Lac objects was moved from 'Galaxies' category into 'Active galaxies' category [AstroCalc]
- Changed behaviour of AstroCalc/WUT tool: let's use visual magnitude for all objects without extinction data [AstroCalc]
- Changed "Arguments" to "arguments" for highlighter in Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Removed obsolete scripting methods from StarMgr class [Scripting]
- Removed duplicate code for InfoString of planets, comets and minor planets
- Removed "Global" from highlighter in Script Console [Scripting] (GH: #1101, #1107)
- Removed unused variables
New in Stellarium 0.20.1 (Jul 21, 2020)
- Added new language - Luxembourgish (lb)
- Added proper properties for Angle Measure plugin
- Added configurable colors for Angle Measure plugin
- Added GUI adaptations for Angle Measure plugin
- Added evaluates scripts in individual context (Scripting Engine)
- Added new planetary nomenclature
- Added use properties in Satellites plugin
- Added overloaded Labeling functions with colors specified as Vec3f (Scripting Engine)
- Added display proper file paths and line numbers on script errors (Scripting Engine)
- Added test for low precision hms time conversion function (GH: #1043)
- Added spiky stars option
- Added checkbox to the option settings in Script Console to clear the output text before a script is run
- Added implementation of telescope syncing in INDI client (GH: #1048)
- Added dirty flag, set by signal from QTextEdit (Script Console)
- Added code to set TAB stop width at 4 characters (Script Console)
- Added code to avoid losing names after Cancel in some QFileDialog (Script Console)
- Added implementation of FSM to tranfer properly between dirty/filename states on load, save, clear, edit, expand actions (Script Console)
- Added special case Catalogs/Other in GUI for objects without identifier (DSO Catalog v3.9)
- Added Oculus plugin (disabled by default; GH: #1056)
- Fixed ANGLE support for Windows package (GH: #1035, #1034)
- Fixed keyboard navigation in Oculars plugin (GH: #1036)
- Fixed Russian translation for Windows installer
- Fixed data blunder: severely wrong slope for upcoming comet (GH: #1033)
- Fixed flipping galactic/Supergalactic labels on Southern hemisphere (GH: #1028)
- Fixed translations 'Set FOV to XXX degrees' when language is changed
- Fixed possible segfault in SolarSystem class
- Fixed building Stellarium without scripting
- Fixed (restored) fading switch effect in Satellites plugin
- Fixed (inverted) realistic/iconic mode labeling in Satellites plugin
- Fixed (renamed) properties to better follow conventions in Satellites plugin
- Fixed visualization mode in Satellites plugin
- Fixed time conversion for low precision form (GH: #1042)
- Fixed jerking an animation of movement of Solar system bodies (GH: #1041)
- Fixed name for SH2-308 (DSO Catalog v3.9)
- Fixed filter properly objects by catalogs (DSO Catalog v3.9; GH: #1052)
- Fixed few wrong objects in DSO catalog (DSO Catalog v3.9)
- Fixed WUI of Remote Control plugin
- Updated fix for ghost comet in ortographic projection issue (GH: #389)
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated code: simplified RegExp results handling
- Changed Vec3f& to Vec3f asreturn type for functions called from scripts in some classes (Scripting Engine)
- Re-implement getDecAngle, fixing some inconsistencies (GH: #1051)
- Removed Abell planetary nebulae catalog (DSO Catalog v3.9)
New in Stellarium 0.20.0 (Jul 21, 2020)
- Added Almagest skyculture (GH: #1017)
- Added missing Ukrainian translations for landscapes (GH: #891)
- Added show an altitude of perigee/apogee for satellites (GH: #910)
- Added show an orbit inclination info for satellites (GH: #910)
- Added support INDIGO for Telescope Control plugin
- Added tool for extract dates of releases with their versions from ChangeLog and update list of these releases in stellarium.appdata.xml file
- Added particular refresh method for Oculars plugin to see immediate changes of CCD properties
- Added displaying last updated TLE for users
- Added a SIMBAD lookup name query to the Search Dialog (GH: #831)
- Added the configuration file and shell scripts to translate skyculture and landscape descriptions with po4a (GH: #908)
- Added new config and GUI option to change behaviour of focusing on day spinner in Date and Time dialog (GH: #939)
- Added context for name an asteroid (849) Ara to resolve translation issue
- Added a failure warning for Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #932)
- Added Cross-origin (CORS) support to Remote Control plugin (GH: #942)
- Added support for CORS preflight request to the Remote Control plugin (GH: #944)
- Added a minimum near clipping plane distance: slightly improves rendering of Saturn viewed from Pan (GH: #435)
- Added a GimbalOrbit for the "Observer" planets: allows arbitrary viewpoints by keyboard action (GH: #946)
- Added new nomenclature items
- Added new type of planetary feature
- Added automatize for creating Windows installers and signing them (GH: #969)
- Added configuring colors for ocular circles, sensor frames and text output in Oculars plugin (GH: #967)
- Added a toggle action to switch visibility of Ocular GUI button bar (GH: #964)
- Added allowing for assign shortcut for opening the config dialogues of plugins (GH: #964)
- Added display references for proper names of celestial object in description of skyculture
- Added texlive-fonts-recommended to apt-get install doc (GH: #959)
- Added hourly proper motion for planets, minor planets and comets (GH: #957)
- Added shortcuts to change GimbalOrbit distance
- Added actions for rotate reticles into Oculars plugin
- Added modern rotational elements for Solar system objects (GH: #950)
- Added linear model in the first approximation for smooth reduce the brightness of Jovian moons for get more realistic look (GH: #979)
- Added partitions to the Great Circles (GH: #993)
- Added properties for control of line partitions (GH: #993)
- Added fixed distinct length for 30, 10, 5, 1 degree marks for partitions (GH: #993)
- Added configurable thickness for partitions (GH: #993)
- Added German set of navigational stars
- Added nautical navigation data for navigation stars (GH: #955, #408)
- Added special name for landing location (translatable string "landing site") to avoid using "-" as name and good look
- Added comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) as potential superbright comet (a Great Comet)
- Added asteroid (101955) Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) with texture (and nomenclature some time early)
- Added option to hide Scripts Console at script running
- Fixed script for installing asterisms data in Western: Rey skyculture
- Fixed typos in sky culture and landscape descriptions (GH: #892, #896, #899, #929, #927, #926, #905)
- Fixed restoring star labels state to default value after disabling displaying the Navigational stars data (GH: #898)
- Fixed work AstroCalc/Transits tool for pulsars
- Fixed displaying proper name and designation of pulsars (the output format was unificate with other objects)
- Fixed scaling FOV for CCD with OAG (Oculars plugin)
- Fixed resetting zoom level in Oculars plugin when CCD frame is rotation (GH: #895)
- Fixed name for M48 (GH: #902)
- Fixed CCD rotation issue (GH: #934)
- Fixed wrong text placement on center of screen, when vertical offset is defined (GH: #904)
- Fixed potential bug for updating standard magnitudes for satellites
- Fixed a spurious bad answer in Search Tool (GH: #831)
- Fixed location manager for API changes to GPSd 3.20 (GH: #925)
- Fixed updating TLE for satellites with leading zeros in ID (GH: #920, #897)
- Fixed data formatting for Meteor Showers Search Tool
- Fixed selection the meteor shower from Meteor Showers Search Tool
- Fixed Corona size on HiDPI screens (GH: #911)
- Fixed caching of precession values not being used (GH: #915)
- Fixed color conversion for markers of meteor showers from old format
- Fixed setting thickness of lines for constellations and boundaries
- Fixed jittering labels and moons hints
- Fixed the flawed 2013 brightness model for Venus
- Fixed manage slider by keyboard in AstroCalc/Graphs[Monthly Elevation] tool (GH: #936)
- Fixed crash when observer is on spaceship
- Fixed behaviour of draw the trails of planets
- Fixed opening User Directory in Script Console if scripts directory into User Directory does not exist (GH: #963)
- Fixed crash with the extrainfostrings
- Fixed behaviour of Bookmarks highlights: fool protection is enabled (GH: #917)
- Fixed enabling a reticle for eyepieces in Oculars plugin
- Fixed getting weird data for eclipse magnitude value during transits of inner planets
- Fixed viewing Phobos from Mars
- Fixed velocity value for KeplerOrbit around planets (GH: #950)
- Fixed a few potential problems (CWE-476)
- Fixed constellation lines for Babylonian (Seleucid) sky culture
- Fixed crash Stellarium, when meteor shower selected and you tried set date to outside the activity range of selected shower (Fix #975)
- Fixed crash Stellarium on trying select inactive meteor shower in Search Tool/Lists (Fix #975)
- Fixed displaying info for inactive meteor showers
- Fixed missing translatable strings for nomenclature data
- Fixed the time rate when Solar system body is selected: adjust time resetting for planet proper motion display (GH: #1006)
- Fixed GUI issue: switch off true time indicator when scene is paused
- Fixed false comet in orthographic projection (GH: #389)
- Fixed black rendering of lunar pole (GH: #992)
- Fixed hiding the cardinal points on "planetary observers"
- Fixed weird axis orientation of the Moon (GH: #974)
- Fixed name of a script
- Fixed hides data in Ocular plugin: changed the priority level of drawing for Equation of Time and Pointer Coordinates plugins (GH: #987)
- Fixed crash when observer is on spaceship and target planet is Solar system minor body
- Fixed location info string on bottom bar when observer is on spaceship
- Fixed compilation Stellarium on Solaris (Clang 9.0; SunOS 5.11)
- Updated set of GUI icons (GH: #804)
- Updated list of countries (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and list of locations (GH: #894)
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated Ukrainian translation of the sky culture descriptions (GH: #900, #907, #912)
- Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin: the color picker button was split into 3 buttons to define separate colors for info, orbit and marker of satellite (GH: #910)
- Updated "Save settings" button behaviour: when button "Save settings" are pressed, then emitted signal
- configurationDataSaved() and all plugins are saved the config data too (GH: #906)
- Updated scripts
- Updated Scripting Console (GH: #995)
- Updated code for Orbit class: combined EllipticalOrbit and CometOrbit classes to KeplerOrbit
- Updated list of MSVC versions for StelLogger class
- Updated GUI for Oculars plugin and changed focus policy for Oculars GUI buttons (GH: #956)
- Updated GUI for Information tab: define new ProperMotion InfoStringGroup flag, and adapt GUI, settings and StarWrapper (GH: #957)
- Updated InfoString: improved readability (HTML symbol syntax instead of Unicode char numbers)
- Updated GUI and shortcuts info for Oculars plugin
- Updated GUI for Script Console
- Updated Moon phases info: Restore/sanitize handling of named moon phases (GH: #950)
- Updated trails behaviour: when planet is changed the trails should be recreated
- Updated trails behaviour: include moons of current planet into planet trails
- Updated trails behaviour: allow limitation (early cutoff) of trail length
- Updated behaviour for selection of meteor showers in Search Dialog (Ctrl+Alt+M) of the Meteor Shower plugin
- Updated default list of TLE sources in Satellites plugin
- Updated Korean translations for Windows Installer (GH: #980)
- Updated DSO names: synced few names from SIMBAD
- Updated the pulsars catalog and tool for generate of JSON catalog from the original data (GH: #989)
- Updated SSD: synced the data by JPL HORIZON for some Solar system minor bodies
- Removed outdated and abandoned code
- Removed code for separate handling hotkeys from Oculars plugin
- Removed unnecessary orbit data from Comets and MinorPlanets (GH: #950)
- Removed of code repetition (GH: #950)
New in Stellarium 0.19.3 (Dec 23, 2019)
- Added Vts plugin (GH: #880)
- Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #788)
- Added support superior and inferior conjunctions for inner planets in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
- Added support greatest elongations for inner planets in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
- Added compute stationary points in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
- Added new groups of objects for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added magnitudes for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added brightness limit for planetary nebulae (speed-up for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
- Added 2 new functions for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
- Added support of connecting line between the ephemeris markers (GH: #758, #805)
- Added support skipping of labels for visualization of data into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #758)
- Added acknowledgements entry for plugins
- Added some more references and acknowledgements for few plugins
- Added some DSO textures (GH: #798, #824, #878)
- Added new GUI options and tooltips for AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Phenomena tools
- Added parallax accuracy info for the stars (GH: #87)
- Added new planetary nomenclature
- Added selected dwarf and minot planets for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added error info for distance (taken from parallax)
- Added heliocentric speed to Apex markers
- Added support of SYNC command for LX200 and NexStar protocols (Telescope Control Plugin) (GH: #667, #727)
- Added asteroid (162173) Ryugu and moon Puck (Uranus XV)
- Added filters for open/globular star clusters in DSO tab (GH: #841)
- Added categories "open star clusters" and "globular star clusters" into AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #841)
- Added new type of shape for markers (MarkerMgr/scripting)
- Added new option for visualization of ephemeris markers (AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool)
- Added tool for smart format dates of ephemeris on the sky (AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool)
- Added new option for CCD (switching scaling FOV) in Oculars plugin (GH: #834)
- Added option to allow drawing FOV outline for ocular (Oculars plugin)
- Added an optional cardinal points to the ocular view (GH: #421)
- Added some stars to Chinese skyculture and Chinese contemporary skyculture (GH: #848)
- Added option to enable align the crosshair in equatorial coordinate system (GH: #852)
- Added option to use one color for info text (overwrite color mode) for all objects
- Added ASCOM telescope client into Telescope Control plugin (Windows only) (GH: #761, #406)
- Added 2 new config options for developers to build Stellarium package
- Added Pinyin transliteration to Chinese sky culture (GH: #867)
- Added support display of asterisms and ray helpers for Western (Rey) starlore (GH: #855)
- Added tool with keyboard shortcut for deselect the selected object (GH: #857)
- Added new tool (AstroCalc/Transits) info AstroCalc window (GH: #872)
- Added new option (duration) into AstroCalc/Graphs [Graphs] tool (GH: #874)
- Added an optional calculations for perihelion and aphelion of the planets into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #874)
- Added tool to adjustable line thickness of celestial grids and lines (GH: #828)
- Added line thickness setting into ArchaeoLines plugin
- Added new stars and exoplanets names according to IAU NameExoWorlds
- Fixed coordinates for Taldykorgan (Kazakhstan) (GH: #782)
- Fixed drawing of Off-Axis Guider (GH: #784)
- Fixed wrong rendering FOV through eyepiece when telescope is changed (GH: #211)
- Fixed parsing the designation of interstellar objects for MPC online search tool
- Fixed compute minutes in low precision case from deciman hours (GH: #792)
- Fixed double (mirrored) ephemeris lines in perspective projection (GH: #811, #813)
- Fixed exclude moons from compute of greatest elongations and stationary points on non-terrestrial locations (AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
- Fixed compute behaviour for "Sun, planets and moons" option on non-terrestrial locations (AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
- Fixed cache problem for compute Moon's age in some cases
- Fixed crash in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool in specific cases (GH: #822)
- Fixed displaying obvious wrong distance for stars (GH: #402, #404)
- Fixed wrong rendering the screen in night mode with fractional scaling (GH: #827)
- Fixed getting revision number for non-release builds when git is not installed or using source tarball
- Fixed wrong distances of the clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (GH: #840)
- Fixed crash when star catalogs description is updated
- Fixed abbreviation of asterism Sudor Ophiuchi
- Fixed wrong zooming in Telrad (GH: #832)
- Fixed about data for Oculars plugin and updated the version of plugin
- Fixed support mirrored cardinals for ocular view
- Fixed crash when "gravity labels" is enabled (GH: #847)
- Fixed the space char problem for gravity labels
- Fixed work scripting functions saveState and restoreState (GH: #849)
- Fixed font scaling for text around CCD frame for HiDPI screens
- Fixed translation errors in Danish (GH: #865)
- Fixed saving of stars twinkle setting (GH: #862)
- Fixed crash for saving file in AstroCalc/WUT tool when category of objects is not selected
- Fixed obtaining some data for plot graphs in Exoplanets plugin
- Fixed DSO catalog (unexsist objects)
- Fixed object information text color in eyepiece view at daytime (GH: #858)
- Fixed plot for culmination height jumps at daylight saving time (GH: #876)
- Fixed crash with negative JDs
- Fixed setting the minimum data step for labels in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #871)
- Fixed translation issues for Nomenclature
- Fixed translation issues for Nebulae
- Fixed translation months of activity for the meteor showers
- Fixed solar halo drawing issue (GH: #879)
- Fixed ASCOM settings translation issue (GH: #881)
- Fixed for paths render with orthographic projection (GH: #811)
- Fixed wrap-around rendering artefacts for Comet tails in Cylindrical and similar projections
- Fixed artefacts in some projections for old-style landscapes (GH: #366)
- Fixed Date and Time dialog: set focus on day spinner by default (GH: #886)
- Updated outlines for DSO (the data taken from OpenNGC catalog)
- Updated TelescopeControl plugin: Attempt to fix protocol mismatches for LX200 (GH: #818)
- Updated some DSO textures (GH: #783, #798, #815, #817, #824, #878)
- Updated scripting engine documentation
- Updated Stellarium User Guide
- Updated options for Windows installer (GH: #819)
- Updated AstroCalc/PC tool
- Updated parallax info string: let's use milliarcseconds for parallax for whole planetarium
- Updated default bookmarks for asteroids in Solar System Editor plugin
- Updated default bookmarks for comets in Solar System Editor plugin
- Updated the initial steps for newly added minor and dwarf planets into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Updated rules for including OpenSSL libraries into Windows package (GH: #786)
- Updated GUI for Sky and viewing options window
- Updated attributes for HDPI support
- Updated lunar terminator visibility
- Updated ephemeris marker style: it was switched to use new type of shape to balancing the visual style
- Updated spectral data for HIP stars from SIMBAD/Gaia data
- Updated variable stars data (HIP subset from GCVS 5.1 catalog)
- Updated behaviour: hide zodiacal light when whole Solar system bodies are hidden
- Updating StelProperty behaviour: allow suppression of a warning when a StelProperty cannot be found - should be used when requesting plugin properties!
- Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool: excluding moons from list of celestial bodies (except the moons of current planet) to simplificate.
- Removed filter for star clusters from DSO tab (GH: #841)
- Removed "star clusters" category from AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #841)
New in Stellarium 0.19.2 (Sep 30, 2019)
- Added support DMS and DD formats for parallactic angle feature
- Added altitude limitation filter for AstroCalc/Graphs[AltVsTime/ME] tools
- Added visual improvements for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
- Added new time intervals for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Added computation of ephemeris for all naked-eye visible planets into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Added GUI for select the color of ephemeris markers into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Added 2 new scripts (Saturnian and uranian analemmas)
- Added 'k Pup' designation to star HIP 37229 (GH: #706)
- Added information about progress of loading on splash screen (GH: #719)
- Added a new skylore for Stellarium: Anutan
- Added support catalog "Southern Stars embedded in nebulosity" (Van den Bergh and Herbst, 1975 - VdBH)
- Added support "Catalogue and distances of optically visible H II regions" (Dickel+, 1969 - DWB)
- Added distances for few LDN objects
- Added support removing shortcuts through config.ini file (GH: #724)
- Added extraInfoString to StelObject: Allows extra info injected by plugins or scripts.
- Added display of Apex/Antapex points (GH: #737)
- Added "observers" for all planets with moons (GH: #736)
- Added IAU constellation abbreviation to object info
- Added 3 new actions
- Added settings for Script Console (GH: #741)
- Added Vanuatu (Netwar) skyculture (GH: #762)
- Added few asterisms (GH: #753, #768)
- Added new one time step into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #758)
- Added few new DSO textures (GH: #756, #780)
- Added support Vec3d into scripting engine
- Added a Messier Marathon script (GH: #771)
- Added support for short weekday display modes in bottom toolbar
- Added GUI option to toggle permanent orbit drawing
- Added hyperbolic comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) [2I/Borisov] into default ssystem_minor.ini file
- Added a scripting function for refraction (GH: #778)
- Fixed coloring text issue when formatting output is on
- Fixed saving properties for external software/remote computer in Telescope Control plugin (GH: #702)
- Fixed behaviour of selected ephemeris marker when sorting not for date (AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool)
- Fixed sorting date and time columns for AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Phenomena tools
- Fixed crash on destruction of static QWidget (GH: #720)
- Fixed small difference of values issue for different time zones for Date and Time column in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #717)
- Fixed stupid conversion bug in hmsToRad function (GH: #716)
- Fixed an asymmetry w.r.t. to the ecliptic latitudes (Moon age)
- Fixed Search Tool/Lists behaviour for VdBH catalog
- Fixed distances for few DSO (GH: #708)
- Fixed Gregorian date issue for AstroCalc (GH: #711)
- Fixed support GPS on macOS (GH: #712)
- Fixed coefficient for the duration of mean tropical year
- Fixed issue for images in description for landscapes: set search directory (GH: #735)
- Fixed tooltip behaviour for Date and Time dialog
- Fixed star name to its source spelling (GH: #729)
- Fixed compiling with GPSD 3.19 [API 8.0] (GH: #733)
- Fixed encoding script files in Script Console (GH: #742)
- Fixed drawing names of asterisms
- Fixed aFOV display in Oculars plugin
- Fixed visual issue in Script Console (white background) with Qt 5.13
- Fixed links for scripting docs (SUG)
- Fixed screen flashing during solar eclipse (GH: #747)
- Fixed core.resetOutput(); method behaviour (GH: #750)
- Fixed AltGr behaviour for some languages on Windows
- Fixed clipping issue for LabelMgr.labelObject (GH: #776)
- Fixed weekday computation
- Fixed rendering planets orbits (GH: #773)
- Fixed error in shape of asterism Red-Necked Emu (GH: #769)
- Fixed proper removing of default secondary shortcut (GH: #764)
- Fixed cross-id error in DSO catalog
- Updated appdata.xml file
- Updated outdated code for names of days and months
- Updated Observability plugin
- Updated list of proper names of stars (IAU approved list)
- Updated Moon age calculation: let's use geocentric coordinates only for compute of the Moon age
- Updated AstroCalc/PC tool: simplification and colorification for graphs
- Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: small speed-up
- Updated the default color space: StelToneReproducer now use sRGB as target RGB color space (GH: #718)
- Updated GUI for Satellites plugin
- Updated common names for DSO
- Updated common names for stars
- Updated packaging for macOS: Let's use macdeployqt for creating a MacOS bundles
- Updated nomenclature support: Let's use compressed nomenclature data to reduce an installation package
- Updated translations
- Updated planetary nomenclature
- Updated Sardinian skyculture
- Updated file handling in Script Console
- Updated HDPI features: enabled scaling fonts on High DPI monitors (GH: #546)
- Updated default shortcuts: changed default shortcut for copying selected object information (Ctrl+C -> Ctrl+Shift+C) to allow use Ctrl+C shortcut for text edit fields for whole planetarium (GH: #748)
- Updated getInfoMap method [scripting engine]: enhanced the getInfoMap method for the Sun (get eclipse data; GH: #747)
- Updated Chinese (Simplified) and Russian translations for Windows installer (GH: #755, #779)
- Updated Bookmarks tool
- Updated default exoplanets and pulsars catalogs
- Updated behaviour on Windows: disable HiDPI scaling in manifest (GH: #763)
- Updated Oculars plugin: improve RA/Dec output for CCD frame
- Code refactoring: type checking/casting clarifications
- Removed FOV plugin (the feature was moved into core of planetarium)
New in Stellarium 0.19.1 (Jun 24, 2019)
- Added allow to search an inactive meteor showers in Search Tool/Lists tool
- Added 'Azimuth vs. Time' graph into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
- Added feature to show tracks for latest several selected planets (GH: #539)
- Added calculation and showing the orbital period for artificial satellites
- Added revolutions per day info for artificial satellites
- Added tools for jumping to the next or previous time of rising, transit or setting for selected object (GH: #484)
- Added new behavoir for AstroCalc/Graphs when clicking within graph area now sets current time.
- Added simplification in topocentric correction (GH: #391)
- Added parallactic angle function (added it to infostring and infomap also)
- Added hour angle and sidereal time to infomap
- Added apply rotation when drawing Solar Corona (GH: #699)
- Fixed draw corona when atmosphere is switched off
- Fixed airmass in infomap
- Fixed issue in script 'Mercury Triple Sunrise and Sunset'
- Fixed crash of Stellarium for eyepieces with permanent crosshair
- Fixed Stellarium crash when Remote Control plugin is working
- Fixed computation of assume radius for minor planets.
- Fixed the issue of the scrolling not working properly on Mac (GH: #393)
- Fixed crash in Scripting Engine (Hide artificial satellites through StelProperties in core.clear() method
- to avoid crash if plugin was didn't loaded)
- Fixed planetarium crash in HiPS (network manager delete problem)
- Fixed position problems on the Poles (GH: #391)
- Fixed scaling Telrad sign on HighDPI monitors
- Fixed surface occlusion bug even with landscape turned off in scripting engine (GH: #680)
- Fixed building with cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON (GH: #683)
- Fixed error in constellation file format (Babylonian)
- Fixed Europe/Volgograd time zone settings (GH: #686)
- Fixed HiPS handling of allsky download (GH: #671)
- Fixed progress bar rendering (GH: #671)
- Fixed positive declinations issue in AstroCalc tool when option 'Use decimal degrees' is enabled (GH: #690)
- Fixed file names inconsistency
- Fixed constellation line in "Japanese Moon Stations" skyculture
- Fixed file name for constellation boundaries in Stellarium User Guide
- Fixed the user interface problems in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
- Fixed getting the wrong values in objects/info method for selected object for different formats (Remote Control plugin)
- Fixed refresh plots when AstroCalc dialog becomes visible again (AstroCalc/Graphs tool)
- Fixed jquery vulnerability (GH: #694)
- Fixed date and time dialog behaviour: Hour/Minute/Second spinners now correctly trigger signals dateChanged(), dateChangedByYear and dateChangedForMonth() when days, months or years are affected by it.
- Fixed update graphs in AstroCalc/Graphs tool when days change
- Updated planetary nomenclature
- Updated common names of stars and DSO's
- Updated cmake rules for Windows deployment
- Updated DSO textures
- Updated behaviour of HiPS survey if Stellarium started without network (GH: #681)
- Updated GUI for ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #689, #682)
- Updated default pulsars catalog (v1.60)
- Updated list of asterisms
- Updated AstroCalc tools: many optimizations
- Excluded Armintxe skyculture and landscape from default package
New in Stellarium 0.18.3 (Dec 24, 2018)
- Improvements and fixes for AstroCalc tool
- Added new sky cultures
- Added many DSO textures
- Refactoring the GUI
- Many improvements in the code
New in Stellarium 0.18.2 (Aug 16, 2018)
- HIGHLIGHTS:
- Improvements and fixes for AstroCalc tool and plugins
- Added support Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae and ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas
- Added few new scripts
- Updated code and data
- FULL LIST OF CHANGES:
- Added GUI improvements for AstroCalc tool
- Added elongation support for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added support decimal degrees format for AstroCalc tool
- Added handle keypressing for list of matching objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Added filters for enlisted objects in Search Tool/Lists tool
- Added filters for list of matching objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Added new textures for moons
- Added column with angular distance from the Moon into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added special case for partial solar eclipses in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added centering text for headers in AstroCalc/Phenomena, AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Positions tools
- Added "clear" button for search of artificial satellites in the selected group (Satellites plugin)
- Added additional context for term 'Transit' (GH: #215)
- Added artwork for some Maori constellations
- Added support Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae (Abell, 1966)
- Added distances for some planetary nebulae (DSO)
- Added possibility to select all constellations through scripts and hotkeys
- Added new language (Urdu)
- Added additional level of checks for JSON documents
- Added Lokono sky culture
- Added support to add/subtract calendric month through hotkeys (GH: #232)
- Added support 'ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas'
- Added processing the 30x HTTP codes for Quasars, Pulsars, Historical Supernovae, Bright Novae, Meteor Showers and Exoplanets plugins (GH: #236, #231, #229, #227, #226, #225, #224, #223)
- Added visual magnitudes and sizes for Abell planetary nebulae
- Added support Milkyway saturation effect (GH: #175, #242)
- Added Henriksson solution (2017) for Schoch formula for DeltaT (1931)
- Added actions (without default hotkeys) to toggle Moon and Minor body scaling
- Added script "Jupiter and triple shadow phenomena"
- Added script "Jupiter without Galilean satellites"
- Added script "Occultations of bright stars by planets"
- Added script "Mutual occultations of planets"
- Fixed sorting rules for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Fixed Moon HiPS rendering during eclipse
- Fixed URL of API for "Location from network" feature (GH: #218)
- Fixed some errors in DSO catalog
- Fixed crash in the combination: constellation is selected and sky culture has been changed
- Fixed Earth shadow on scaled Moon during eclipse
- Fixed auto-enabling landscapes when setObserverLocation is call (LP: #1783752)
- Fixed position of Jupiter moons: updated theory to L1.2 (GH: #222)
- Fixed cross-index data issue (DSO)
- Fixed the term for altitude above sea level (GH: #247)
- Fixed desync bug with IAU Constellation and constellation borders (GH: #246)
- Fixed reserved identifier violation issue (GH: #243)
- Fixed trouble with selection priority of nomenclature items for celestial bodies in deep shadow (GH: #239)
- Fixed parsing error in constellation IAU borders lookup (GH: #241)
- Fixed compiler warnings when GPS support is disabled (GH: #240)
- Fixed potential crash for Meteor showers plugin
- Fixed crash (segmentation fault) for sporadic meteors with max ZHR
- [SUG] Fixed bibtex link
- [SUG] Fixed links for HCG data (GH: #212)
- Updated scripts
- Updated behaviour of deselectConstellations() method (LP: #1780951)
- Updated Epimetheus texture
- Updated behaviour of "clear" button for Search and AstroCalc/WUT tools
- Updated list of locations
- Updated list of DSO names
- Updated behaviour of Oculars button on bottom toolbar: hidden by default
- Updated default bookmarks of Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #180)
- Updated script 'Partial Lunar Eclipse'
- Updated default host for GeoIP service
- Updated the appdata file (GH: #234)
- Updated behaviour of Location dialog: allowed to use resort GPS location at next startup and disable IP query when GPS is used
- Removed support of terrible Qt plural forms
New in Stellarium 0.18.1 (Jul 2, 2018)
- Highlights:
- Improvements and fixes for Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] support
- Updated code of plugins
- Updated code and data
- Updated GPS handling
- Added rise, transit and set times for celestial objects
- Added dithering support
- Changelog:
- Added dithering support
- Added filtering for pulsars
- Added option for Telrad
- Added nomenclature for Charon
- Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Added support Mandarin Chinese language
- Added support of hi-res screenshots (GH: #141)
- Added few small improvements for Quasars plugin
- Added tooltips for color buttons in Pulsars plugin
- Added option to hiding invisible satellites in markers mode (GH: #145)
- Added angular size for the estimated values of coma and gas tail for comet
- Added support decimal degrees for size of DSO
- Added improvements for proportional size textures for large DSO (GH: #159)
- Added atmospheric mixing and extinction handling to Toast Survey (GH: #158)
- Added Korean translation for landscape description (GH: #170)
- Added shortkeys for change light pollution (GH: #171)
- Added rise, transit and set times for celestial objects (GH: #169)
- Added info about duration of the solar day
- Added scripting function to retrieve environment variables.
- Added changeability of magnitude limit for stars through keyboard shortcuts (GH: #174)
- Added Korean ISL File and Update iss.cmake (GH: #185)
- Added allowing storing script output to absolute path
- Added equatorial radius / diameter info for Solar system bodies
- Added calculation of equatorial rotation velocity for Solar system bodies (except comets)
- Added 2 more lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed load the HiPS sources through proxy
- Fixed creating screenshots on retina displays
- Fixed behaviour Macbook's touchpad
- Fixed result of dithering color components with exactly zero tail
- Fixed dithering for OpenGL ES2
- Fixed enabling various lines when Telrad is enabled (GH: #109)
- Fixed error in DSO catalogs filter
- Fixed bug when screenshots folder can't be changed via GUI (LP: #1764084, GH: #144)
- Fixed compile with Qt5.10 (Windows/Visual Studio 2015) (GH: #139)
- Fixed visibility of splash screen (GH: #142)
- Fixed rendering asterisms names
- Fixed editing telescope properties for Telescope Control plugin
- Fixed memory leak of Bayer pattern texture in StelPainter (GH: #154)
- Fixed HiPS server requests (GH: #156)
- Fixed infotext brightness when planets are switched off
- Fixed crash after customization of absolute/relative scales
- Fixed operational status string for satellites
- Fixed incorrect pair counts in constellationship.fab files (GH: #167)
- Fixed color issue for formatting infostring
- Fixed selection in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed fullscreen toggle on Mac OS X (GH: #193)
- Fixed User Agent string for HiPS
- Fixed the SSO isolated trails checkbox. (GH: #199)
- Fixed a rendering bug with spheric mirror distortion (LP: #1777320)
- Updated behaviour of Toast: lazily creation of the grid
- Updated help of Telescope Control plugin
- Updated HiPS behaviour: try to use caching as much as possible
- Updated user agent string for HiPS browser
- Updated nomenclature list
- Updated main GUI
- Updated GUI of plugins
- Updated Satellites plugin
- Updated GPS handling
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated catalog of pulsars
- Updated behaviour of Search Tool for craters
- Updated Quasars plugin
- Updated format for DSO's size
- [SUG] Updated year for copyright notices
- Updated Korean Star Names (GH: #173)
- Updated hyperlinks for DOIs resolver (GH: #187)
- Updated CMake rules for Windows/MSVC (GH: #183, #188)
- Updated textures
- Updated Scripting Engine: extended behaviour for includes files in scripts
- Updated the code: remove some redundant calls to increase code readability. (GH: #184)
- Updated the code: replaces foreach macro by C++11 range-based for. (GH: #195)
- Updated the code: remove gVector, use Vec3d instead. (GH: #197)
- Updated the code: C++11 auto to replace complicated hand written types. (GH: #196)
- Updated the code: disable debug logging on OpenGLES mode. (GH: #201)
- Updated the code: remove the null pointer check after new. (GH: #202)
- Updated the code: check struct size by using static_assert. (GH: #203)
- Updated the code: put dwarf galaxies and h400 tables into static array. (GH: #204)
- Updated the code: call getDecYear in getDeltaTByEspenakMeeus. (GH: #205)
- Updated the code: remove some new/delete pairs, just use variables on stack. (GH: #206)
- Updated CMake code: enable persistent usage of C++11 standard for compiling (GH: #192)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.16064 Dev (Jun 22, 2018)
- Added allowing storing script output to absolute path
- Added equatorial radius / diameter info for Solar system bodies
- Added calculation of equatorial rotation velocity for Solar system bodies (except comets)
- Added 2 more lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed fullscreen toggle on Mac OS X (GH: #193)
- Fixed User Agent string for HiPS
- Fixed the SSO isolated trails checkbox. (GH: #199)
- Fixed a rendering bug with spheric mirror distortion (LP: #1777320)
- Updated textures
- Updated Scripting Engine: extended behaviour for includes files in scripts
- Updated the code: remove some redundant calls to increase code readability. (GH: #184)
- Updated the code: replaces foreach macro by C++11 range-based for. (GH: #195)
- Updated the code: remove gVector, use Vec3d instead. (GH: #197)
- Updated the code: C++11 auto to replace complicated hand written types. (GH: #196)
- Updated the code: disable debug logging on OpenGLES mode. (GH: #201)
- Updated the code: remove the null pointer check after new. (GH: #202)
- Updated the code: check struct size by using static_assert. (GH: #203)
- Updated the code: put dwarf galaxies and h400 tables into static array. (GH: #204)
- Updated the code: call getDecYear in getDeltaTByEspenakMeeus. (GH: #205)
- Updated the code: remove some new/delete pairs, just use variables on stack. (GH: #206)
- Updated CMake code: enable persistent usage of C++11 standard for compiling (GH: #192)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.16018 Dev (Jun 11, 2018)
- Added info about duration of the solar day
- Added scripting function to retrieve environment variables.
- Added changeability of magnitude limit for stars through keyboard shortcuts (GH: #174)
- Added Korean ISL File and Update iss.cmake (GH: #185)
- Fixed selection in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Updated hyperlinks for DOIs resolver (GH: #187)
- Updated CMake rules for Windows/MSVC (GH: #183, #188)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15968 Dev (May 20, 2018)
- Added improvements for proportional size textures for large DSO (GH: #159)
- Fixed editing telescope properties for Telescope Control plugin
- Fixed memory leak of Bayer pattern texture in StelPainter (GH: #154)
- Fixed HiPS server requests (GH: #156)
- Fixed infotext brightness when planets are switched off.
- Updated behaviour of Toast: lazily creation of the grid
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15949 Dev (May 14, 2018)
- Added few small improvements for Quasars plugin
- Added tooltips for color buttons in Pulsars plugin
- Added option to hiding invisible satellites in markers mode (GH: #145)
- Added angular size for the estimated values of coma and gas tail for comet
- Added support decimal degrees for size of DSO
- Fixed rendering asterisms names
- Updated catalog of pulsars
- Updated behaviour of Search Tool for craters
- Updated Quasars plugin
- Updated format for DSO's size
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15932 Dev (May 7, 2018)
- Added support of hi-res screenshots (GH: #141)
- Updated list of contributors
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15924 Dev (Apr 29, 2018)
- Fixed bug when screenshots folder can't be changed via GUI (LP: #1764084)
- Fixed visibility of splash screen (GH: #142)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15914 Dev (Apr 24, 2018)
- Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemris tool
- Added support Mandarin Chinese language
- Fixed enabling various lines when Telrad is enabled (GH #109)
- Fixed error in DSO catalogs filter
- Updated Satellites plugin
- Updated GPS handling
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15901 Dev (Apr 15, 2018)
- Added dithering support
- Added filtering for pulsars
- Added option for Telrad
- Added nomenclature for Charon
- Fixed load the HiPS sources through proxy
- Fixed creating screenshots on retina displays
- Fixed behaviour Macbook's touchpad
- Fixed result of dithering color components with exactly zero tail
- Fixed dithering for OpenGL ES2
- Updated help of Telescope Control plugin
- Updated HiPS behaviour: try to use caching as much as possible
- Updated user agent string for HiPS browser
- Updated nomenclature list
- Updated main GUI
- Updated GUI of plugins
New in Stellarium 0.18.0 (Mar 26, 2018)
- Major changes:
- Added support Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] (Hello visualization of
- multiwavelength universe in the Stellarium)
- Updated and extended AstroCalc tool
- Added support a Hickson Compact Group collection
- Updated code and data
- Full list of changes:
- Added support Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] (Hello visualization of multiwavelength universe in the Stellarium)
- Added patches for TeXLive
- Added Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) translations for InnoSetup
- Added Dnoces star name
- Added check relative paths for AppImage (or something similar) packages
- Added hook for creating an AppImage application
- Added optional building 3rd-party INDILib when Telescope Control plugin is disabled
- Added manual commands for NSEW movements in Telescope Control plugin [INDI-only]
- Added computation of solar eclipse magnitude and solar eclipse obscuration on Earth (special case)
- Added option to allow adding some sky background color (GH: #71)
- Added Moon age computation (GH: #73)
- Added "Western (O.Hlad)" sky culture
- Added support common names of pulsars
- Added some DSO images
- Added calculation of synodic period
- Added AstroCalc/Monthly Elevation tool
- Added optional Sun, Moon, Astronomical Twilight and Nautical Twilight lines for AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
- Added Battlesteads Observatory into locations list
- Added a special case of computations (lunar eclipse) into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added two new signals to manage wide dates changes with various steps - by months and years
- Added new option to the AstroCalc/AltVsTime and AstroCalc/ME tools
- Added support a Hickson Compact Group collection
- Added tools for select color of planetary labels and trails
- Added option to suppress drawing large halo around bright stars. (GH: #105)
- Added Tesla Roadster orbital elements
- Added config options for font size of cardinal points
- Added visualization of civil twilight line in AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
- Added 'Artificial objects' into Search/Lists tool
- Added feature to store and retrieve selected HiPS
- Added bottom bar GUI button for HiPS display
- Fixed spheric mirror effect inputs with retina display
- Fixed visualization issue for ephemeris markers due refraction (GH: #51)
- Fixed building Stellarium on *BSD systems (GH: #52)
- Fixed texture name
- Fixed behaviour of DateTimeDialog (LP: #1409935)
- Fixed behaviour of Compass Marks plugin
- Fixed issue for creating a multiple Screenshot directories (GH: #60)
- Fixed cmake for OSX
- Fixed data race condition by mutex in Telescope Control plugin
- Fixed few C99 warnings
- Fixed rules for MSVC linker
- Fixed Phoebe's absolute magnitude
- Fixed some DSO positions (data is obtained from NED database) (GH: #64)
- Fixed FSF address
- Fixed missed license info for the new code
- Fixed version of DSO catalog
- Fixed inconsistency of calculations in AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
- Fixed crash due missing file MSVCR120.dll (GH: #101)
- Fixed backward orbiting of Uranus moons (GH: #107)
- Fixed search Hydra constellation (show IAU numbers for moons) (LP: #1752784)
- Fixed crash when opening Configuration window (beta 0.90.0.15828) (GH: #111)
- Fixed crash when landscape invalid
- Fixed translation action in HipsMgr
- Fixed name of action for TOAST DSS
- Fixed very jerky (unusable) trackpad navigation on OS X (LP: #1705832)
- Updated Russian and German translations for InnoSetup
- Updated list of cardinals names
- Updated target rules for OSX
- Updated AppStream info
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Updated Indian Vedic skyculture
- Updated list of nomenclature on the Titan
- Updated zlib to version 1.2.11
- Updated toggling of atmosphere, Milky Way and Zodiacal Light
- Updated Telescope Control plugin
- Updated AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
- Updated focus rules for Search Tool
- Updated stellarium.appdata.xml file
- Updated behaviour of AstroCalc/ME and AstroCalc/PC tools
- Updated the behaviour of Satellites plugin: the plugin will be disabled when date is changed for a month or year to avoiding stupid computation
- Updated select priority rules for DSO
- Updated help info in the plugins
- Updated info in Help window
- Updated metainfo
- Updated textures for Solar system bodies
- Removed outdated data
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15855 Dev (Mar 19, 2018)
- Added 'Artificial objects' into Search/Lists tool
- Fixed crash when landscape invalid
- Fixed translation action in HipsMgr
- Fixed name of action for TOAST DSS
- Updated help info in the plugins
- Updated info in Help window
- Updated metainfo
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15828 Dev (Mar 4, 2018)
- Added support HiPS surveys (Hello visualization of multiwavelength universe in the Stellarium)
- Added visualization of civil twilight line in AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
- Fixed search Hydra constellation (show IAU numbers for moons) (LP: #1752784)
- Fixed crash when opening Configuration window (beta 0.90.0.15828) (GH: #111)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15814 Dev (Feb 25, 2018)
- Added config options for font size of cardinal points
- Fixed backward orbiting of Uranus moons (GH: #107)
- Updated select priority rules for DSO
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15809 Dev (Feb 19, 2018)
- Added support a Hickson Compact Group collection
- Added tools for select color of planetary labels and trails
- Added option to suppress drawing large halo around bright stars. (GH: #105)
- Added Tesla Roadster orbital elements
- Removed outdated data
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15797 Dev (Feb 12, 2018)
- Added new option to the AstroCalc/AltVsTime and AstroCalc/ME tools
- Fixed crash due missing file MSVCR120.dll (GH: #101)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15776 Dev (Feb 5, 2018)
- Added a special case of computations (lunar eclipse) into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Added two new signals to manage wide dates changes with various steps - by months and years
- Fixed version of DSO catalog
- Fixed inconsistency of calculations in AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
- Updated focus rules for Search Tool
- Updated stellarium.appdata.xml file
- Updated behaviour of AstroCalc/ME and AstroCalc/PC tools
- Updated the behaviour of Satellites plugin: the plugin will be disabled when date is changed for a month or year to avoiding stupid computation
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15737 Dev (Jan 29, 2018)
- Added calculation of synodic period
- Added AstroCalc/Monthly Elevation tool
- Added optional Sun, Moon, Astronomical Twilight and Nautical Twilight lines for AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
- Added Battlesteads Observatory into locations list
- Updated AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15713 Dev (Jan 22, 2018)
- Added Moon age computation (GH: #73)
- Added "Western (O.Hlad)" sky culture
- Added support common names of pulsars
- Added some DSO images
- Fixed some DSO positions (data is obtained from NED database) (GH: #64)
- Fixed FSF address
- Fixed missed license info for the new code
- Updated toggling of atmosphere, Milky Way and Zodiacal Light
- Updated Telescope Control plugin
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15698 Dev (Jan 14, 2018)
- Added hook for creating an AppImage application
- Added optional building 3rd-party INDILib when Telescope Control plugin is disabled
- Added manual commands for NSEW movements in Telescope Control plugin [INDI-only]
- Added computation of solar eclipse magnitude and solar eclipse obscuration on Earth (special case)
- Added option to allow adding some sky background color (GH: #71)
- Fixed cmake for OSX
- Fixed data race condition by mutex in Telescope Control plugin
- Fixed few C99 warnings
- Fixed rules for MSVC linker
- Fixed Phoebe's absolute magnitude
- Updated target rules for OSX
- Updated AppStream info
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Updated Indian Vedic skyculture
- Updated list of nomenclature on the Titan
- Updated zlib to version 1.2.11
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15664 Dev (Dec 30, 2017)
- Added patches for TeXLive
- Added Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional) translations for InnoSetup
- Added Dnoces star name
- Added check relative paths for AppImage (or something similar) packages
- Fixed spheric mirror effect inputs with retina display
- Fixed visualization issue for ephemeris markers due refraction (GH: #51)
- Fixed building Stellarium on *BSD systems (GH: #52)
- Fixed texture name
- Fixed behaviour of DateTimeDialog (LP: #1409935)
- Fixed behaviour of Compass Marks plugin
- Fixed issue for creating a multiple Screenshot directories (GH: #60)
- Updated Russian and German translations for InnoSetup
- Updated list of cardinals names
New in Stellarium 0.17.0 (Dec 28, 2017)
- The major changes of this version:
- Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)
- Added improvements for AstroCalc tool
- Added improvements for Oculars plugin
- Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin
- Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin
- Updated code and data
- Changelog:
- Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)
- Added templates for translation of planetary features nomenclature
- Added support of movement to selected nomenclature item
- Added new tab for AstroCalc tool: Planetary Calculator
- Added Icelandic translation for a couple of skycultures
- Added another OS detection logging function
- Added new landscape: the Sun
- Added Russian translation for new landscape
- Added filters for nomenclature (Search Tool/Lists)
- Added support plural forms for translation (LP: #1561457)
- Added deselectConstellations() method to public area
- Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemerides tool
- Added sane defaults to Planets
- Added subclasses to the list of Solar system objects in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Added config option to allow make visible orbits for major planets only (LP: #1720722)
- Added rule to allow to hide nomenclature on the celestial body of observer (LP: #1723742)
- Added context support for Solar system bodies
- Added angular size filter for DSO
- Added shortcut for nomenclature
- Added plus/minus keys for elevation change on Macs without PgUp/PgDn
- Added better font scaling for HiDPI Macs
- Added detection method info for exoplanets
- Added visual resolution info for Oculars plugin
- Added GUI options for color of exoplanet marker
- Added a default for night mode
- Added API command to retrieve view direction in RemoteControl plugin
- Added API commands into RemoteControl plugin: allow view setting jNow, harmonize capitalisation for the parameters.
- Added velocity display to Planets, MinorPlanets and Comets
- Added improvements for AstroCalc/PC tool
- Added orbital velocities for AstroCalc/PC tool
- Added special case for long list of "also known as" names
- Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin
- Added Caucasian Mountain Observatory to locations list
- Added option to select temperature scale to the Exoplanets plugin
- Added option to allow scaling of Ocular buttons (LP: #1507205)
- Added new option to the Navigational Stars plugin
- Added checkboxes for DSO catalogs (PN G, SNR G, ACO) in Remote Control plugin
- Added wikilinks for names of Solar system bodies
- Fixed filter for limiting by DSO mangitudes
- Fixed TestStelJsonParser fails (LP: #1719076)
- Fixes and additions for French descriptions
- Fixed context support for constellations
- Fixed sort order for 'Peak' in Meteor showers search (LP: #1719939)
- Fixed location for stellarium.appdata.xml file
- Fixed stupid bug for asterisms in Search Tool/Lists
- Fixed some back-side issues of nomenclature (LP: #1721815)
- Fixed crash for Custom Objects (LP: #1722527)
- Fixed output data for Exoplanets plugin
- Fixed potential crash for nomenclature and inconsistency of data
- Fixed light speed correction issue for nomenclature items (LP: #1724517)
- Fixed annoying malfunction in Oculars plugin (lost of tracking) (LP: #1724106)
- Fixed the new moons' rotation times
- Fixed selecting of comets in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed behaviour and style of tool for download star catalog
- Fixed infostring for satellite features
- Fixed centering/tracking issues for Nomenclature feature (LP: #1721818)
- Fixed small Coverity issue
- Fixed bug of positions for nomenclature when Solar system data is reloaded
- Fixed shader for planet texture rendering (LP: #1731788)
- Fixed sign for declination coordinate for Southern Iota Aquarids
- Fixed behaviour of Velocity checkbox
- Fixed Oculars GUI Panel behaviour: disabled event processing on the sky under GUI
- Fixed ray helpers lines behaviour in Oculars plugin
- Fixed crossid info of alpha2 centauri (LP: #1734396)
- Fixed Oculars plugin mouse bug on retina display
- Fixed wrong unit of measurement for distance
- Fixed mouse cursor hidding
- Fixed zero-filled initial date/time window issue (LP: #1409935)
- Fixed crash of Stellarium when flag for decimal degrees usage is changed
- Fixed regressions introduced by recent LabelMgr refactoring
- Updated default settings of build environment for Windows and Mac OS X
- Updated ICU rules for Qt 5.9+
- Updated Oculars plugin (Allows accessing via RemoteControl)
- Updated list of DSO outlines (port from HNSKY)
- Updated list of DSO names
- Updated behaviour of auto-load landscape when moving to selected planet
- Updated scripts and their descriptions
- Updated Bengali description of landscapes
- Updated list of planetary nomenclature
- Updated list of official star names
- Updated default time step for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Updated behaviour of flag for orbits to renew visibility of orbits
- Updated GUI items in the View dialog
- Updated list of ray helpers
- Updated protocols for MPC
- Updated Triangulum constellation lines
- Updated the solar system screen saver script
- Updated code for beta versions naming
- Updated Chinese skyculture
- Improved performance for AstroCalc tool
- Improved performance for Nomenclature feature
- Code refactoring
New in Stellarium 0.17.0 RC 2 (Dec 17, 2017)
- Added Caucasian Mountain Observatory to locations list
- Added option to select temperature scale to the Exoplanets plugin
- Added option to allow scaling of Ocular buttons (LP: #1507205)
- Added new option to the Navigational Stars plugin
- Added checkboxes for DSO catalogs (PN G, SNR G, ACO) in Remote Control plugin
- Added wikilinks for names of Solar system bodies
- Fixed wrong unit of measurement for distance
- Fixed mouse cursor hidding
- Fixed zero-filled initial date/time window issue (LP: #1409935)
- Fixed crash of Stellarium when flag for decimal degrees usage is changed
- Fixed regressions introduced by recent LabelMgr refactoring
New in Stellarium 0.17.0 RC 1 (Dec 10, 2017)
- Added INDI support for Telescope Control plugin.
- Updated Chinese skyculture.
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15518 Dev (Dec 3, 2017)
- Added special case for long list of "also known as" names
- Fixed Oculars plugin mouse bug on retina display
- Updated list of DSO names
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15499 Dev (Nov 26, 2017)
- Added velocity display to Planets, MinorPlanets and Comets
- Added improvements for AstroCalc/PC tool
- Added orbital velocities for AstroCalc/PC tool
- Fixed behaviour of Velocity checkbox
- Fixed Oculars GUI Panel behaviour: disabled event processing on the sky under GUI
- Fixed ray helpers lines behaviour in Oculars plugin
- Fixed crossid info of alpha2 centauri (LP: #1734396)
- Updated list of official star names
- Updated code for beta versions naming
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9973 Dev (Nov 19, 2017)
- Added new tab for AstroCalc tool: Planetary Calculator
- Added a default for night mode
- Added API command to retrieve view direction in RemoteControl plugin
- Added API commands into RemoteControl plugin: allow view setting jNow, harmonize capitalisation for the parameters.
- Fixed sign for declination coordinate for Southern Iota Aquarids (LP: #)
- Updated Oculars plugin (Allows accessing via RemoteControl)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9959 Dev (Nov 13, 2017)
- Added new plugin: Distance Calculator
- Added plus/minus keys for elevation change on Macs without PgUp/PgDn
- Added better font scaling for HiDPI Macs
- Added detection method info for exoplanets
- Added visual resolution info for Oculars plugin
- Added GUI options for color of exoplanet marker
- Fixed small Coverity issue
- Fixed bug of positions for nomenclature when Solar system data is reloaded
- Fixed shader for planet texture rendering (LP: #1731788)
- Updated Triangulum constellation lines
- Updated the solar system screen saver script
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9954 Dev (Nov 13, 2017)
- Added plus/minus keys for elevation change on Macs without PgUp/PgDn
- Added better font scaling for HiDPI Macs
- Added detection method info for exoplanets
- Added visual resolution info for Oculars plugin
- Added GUI options for color of exoplanet marker
- Fixed small Coverity issue
- Fixed bug of positions for nomenclature when Solar system data is reloaded
- Updated Triangulum constellation lines
- Updated the solar system screen saver script
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9943 Dev (Nov 4, 2017)
- Added shortcut for nomenclature
- Fixed infostring for satellite features
- Fixed centering/tracking issues for Nomenclature feature (LP: #1721818)
- Updated list of ray helpers
- Updated protocols for MPC
- Improved performance for AstroCalc tool
- Improved performance for Nomenclature feature
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9930 Dev (Oct 30, 2017)
- Added angular size filter for DSO.
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9921 Dev (Oct 28, 2017)
- Added config option to allow make visible orbits for major planets only (LP: #1720722)
- Added rule to allow to hide nomenclature on the celestial body of observer (LP: #1723742)
- Added context support for Solar system bodies
- Fixed behavior and style of tool for download star catalog
- Updated behaviour of flag for orbits to renew visibility of orbits
- Updated GUI items in the View dialog
- Code refactoring
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9897 Dev (Oct 21, 2017)
- Added filters for nomenclature (Search Tool/Lists)
- Added support plural forms for translation (LP: #1561457)
- Added deselectConstellations() method to public area
- Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemerides tool
- Added sane defaults to Planets
- Added subclasses to the list of Solar system objects in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed potential crash for nomenclature and inconsistency of data
- Fixed light speed correction issue for nomenclature items (LP: #1724517)
- Fixed annoying malfunction in Oculars plugin (lost of tracking) (LP: #1724106)
- Fixed the new moons' rotation times
- Fixed selecting of comets in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Updated scripts and their descriptions
- Updated Bengali description of landscapes
- Updated list of planetary nomenclature
- Updated default time step for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9873 Dev (Oct 16, 2017)
- Added another OS detection logging function
- Added new landscape: the Sun
- Added Russian translation for new landscape
- Fixed crash for Custom Objects (LP: #1722527)
- Fixed output data for Exoplanets plugin
- Updated behaviour of auto-load landscape when moving to selected planet
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9852 Dev (Oct 9, 2017)
- Added support for nomenclature of planetary surface (SOCIS 2017 project)
- Added templates for translation of planetary features nomenclature
- Added support of movement to selected nomenclature item
- Added Icelandic translation for a couple of skycultures
- Fixes and additions for French descriptions
- Fixed context support for constellations
- Fixed sort order for 'Peak' in Meteor showers search (LP: #1719939)
- Fixed location for stellarium.appdata.xml file
- Fixed stupid bug for asterisms in Search Tool/Lists
- Fixed some back-side issues of nomenclature (LP: #1721815)
- Updated list of DSO outlines (port from HNSKY)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9829 Dev (Sep 24, 2017)
- Fixed filter for limiting by DSO mangitudes
- Fixed TestStelJsonParser fails (LP: #1719076)
- Updated default settings of build environment for Windows and Mac OS X
- Updated ICU rules for Qt 5.9+
New in Stellarium 0.16.1 (Sep 23, 2017)
- BUG FIX RELEASE WITH SOME IMPORTANT FEATURES:
- Added moons of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto
- Added improvements for AstroCalc tool
- Added support asterisms and outlines for DSO
- Added improvements for the GUI
- DSO catalog was updated to version 3.2:
- Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992)
- Added support 'A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants' (Green, 2014)
- Added support 'A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies' (Abell+, 1989)
- FULL CHANGELOG:
- Added two notations for unit of measurement of surface brightness
- Added improvement for hide/unhide lines and grids in Oculars plugin
- Added few moons of Saturn (Phoebe, Janus, Epimetheus, Helene, Telesto, Calypso, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Pan) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added few moons of Uranus (Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Ophelia) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added 2 moons of Pluto (Kerberos and Styx) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added code to avoid conflicts for names of asteroids and moons
- Added support of IAU moon numbers
- Added angular size into AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Added option to allow users to choose output formatting of coordinates of objects
- Added optional debug info for HDPI devices
- Added optional calculations of resolution limits for Oculars plugin
- Added new data from IAU Catalog of Star Names (LP: #1705111)
- Added support download zip archives with TLE data to Satellites plugin
- Added link to the Mike McCants' classified TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
- Added link to AMSAT TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
- Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added support 'A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants' (Green, 2014) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added support 'A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies' (Abell+, 1989) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added export the predictions of Iridium flares (LP: #1707390)
- Added meta information about version and edition into file of Stellarium DSO Catalog to avoid potential crash of Stellarium in the future (validation the version of catalog before loading)
- Added support of extra physical data for asteroids
- Added support of outlines for DSO
- Added new time step: saros
- Added new time step: 7 sidereal days
- Added more checks to the network connections
- Added support of comments for constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711433)
- Added support for small asterisms with lines by the equatorial coordinates
- Added support for ray helpers
- Added new feature (crossed lines and output string near mouse cursor) to the Pointer Coordinates plugin
- Added missing cross-id data
- Added support an images within description of landscapes
- Added support Visual Studio 2017 in StelLogger
- Added tool to save list of objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Added tool to save celestial positions of objects in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Added temporary solution for bug 1498616 (LP: #1498616)
- Fixed wrong rendering Neptune and Uranus (LP: #1699648)
- Fixed Vector3 compilation error in unit tests (LP: #1700095)
- Fixed a conflict around landscape autoselection (LP: #1700199)
- Fixed HMS formatting
- Fixed generating ISS script
- Fixed tooltips for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed dark nebulae parameters for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed tool for saving options
- Fixed crash when we on the spaceship
- Fixed Solar system class to avoid conflicts and undefined behaviour
- Fixed orientation angle and its data rendering (LP: #1704561)
- Fixed wrong shadows on Jupiter's moons (Added special case for Jupiter's moons when they are in the shadow of Jupiter for compute magnitudes from Expl. Suppl. 2013 item) (LP: #1704421)
- Fixed work AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool for artificial satellites (a bit slow solution though)
- Fixed search by lists of DSO
- Fixed translation switch issue for AstroCalc/Graphs tool (LP: #1705341)
- Fixed trackpad behaviour on macOS though workaround
- Fixed couple stupid bugs in InnoSetup script
- Fixed morphology for SNR
- Fixed issue in parsing of date format in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Fixed link for fileStructure.html file in README (LP: #1709523)
- Fixed the calculation for drawing a reticle on a HiDPI display (Oculars plugin)
- Fixed default option of units of measure for surface brighness to avoid possible artifacts on the macOS (LP: #1699643)
- Fixed crash when comments is added into constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711229)
- Fixed behaviour of 'Center on selected object' button (LP: #1712101)
- Fixed impossibility to select a planet after Astronomical Calculations is activated (LP: #1712652)
- Fixed crash with unknown star in asterism
- Fixed cross-ids of 42 bright double stars (LP: #1655493)
- Fixed magnitude computation for Jupiter's satellites
- Fixed crash of Stellarium when answer of freegeoip.net has wrong format (for example this host blocked by firewall or DNS server with HTML answer) (LP: #1706187)
- Fixed translations issue in Script Console
- Fixed illumination in Scenery3D plugin: Take eclipseFactor into account
- Fixed potential crash in DSO outlines
- Fixed various issues in ray helpers, asterisms and constellations support
- Updated InfoString feature
- Updated sky brightness during solar eclipse (really, there are only few stars visible.)
- Updated Maori sky culture
- Updated list of names of deep-sky objects
- Updated list of asterisms
- Updated selection behaviour in Oculars plugin (avoid selection of objects outside ocular circle in eyepiece mode)
- Updated behaviour of methods getEnglishName() and getNameI18n() for minor bodies
- Updated behaviour of planetarium for support a new format of asteroid names
- Updated behaviour of filters for DSO catalogs
- Updated Solar System Editor plugin (support new format of asteroid names)
- Updated RTS2 telecope driver in Telescope Control plugin.
- Updated API docs
- Updated limit of magnitude for Oculars plugin (Improvements)
- Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Updated rules for storing default settings
- Updated rules for computation visibility of DSO hints
- Updated plugins
- Updated default values for material fade-in/fade-out times
- Updated stellarium.appdata.xml file
- Updated tab rules in the GUI
- Reduce warnings to one when loading OBJ with non-default w texture/vertex coordinates
New in Stellarium 0.16.1 RC 3 (Sep 18, 2017)
- Added support Visual Studio 2017 in StelLogger
- Fixed potential crash in DSO outlines
- Fixed various issues in ray helpers, asterisms and constellations support
- Updated tab rules in the GUI
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9808 Dev (Sep 14, 2017)
- Fixed crash of Stellarium when answer of freegeoip.net has wrong format (for example this host blocked by firewall or DNS server with HTML answer) (LP: #1706187)
- Fixed translations issue in Script Console
- Fixed illumination in Scenery3D plugin: Take eclipseFactor into account.
- Updated stellarium.appdata.xml file
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9796 Dev (Sep 11, 2017)
- Added missing cross-id data
- Added support an images within description of landscapes
- Fixed magnitude computation for Jupiter's satellites
- Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9789 Dev (Sep 4, 2017)
- Added support of comments for constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711433)
- Added support for small asterisms with lines by the equatorial coordinates
- Added support for ray helpers
- Added new feature (crossed lines and output string near mouse cursor) to the Pointer Coordinates plugin
- Fixed default option of units of measure for surface brighness to avoid possible artifacts on the macOS (LP: #1699643)
- Fixed crash when comments is added into constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711229)
- Fixed behaviour of 'Center on selected object' button (LP: #1712101)
- Fixed impossibility to select a planet after Astronomical Calculations is activated (LP: #1712652)
- Fixed crash with unknown star in asterism
- Fixed cross-ids of 42 bright double stars (LP: #1655493)
- Updated list of asterisms
- Updated plugins
- Updated default values for material fade-in/fade-out times
- Reduce warnings to one when loading OBJ with non-default w texture/vertex coordinates
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9749 Dev (Aug 11, 2017)
- Added new time step: 7 sidereal days
- Added more checks to the network connections
- Fixed the calculation for drawing a reticle on a HiDPI display (Oculars plugin)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9740 Dev (Aug 10, 2017)
- Added new time step: saros
- Fixed link for fileStructure.html file in README (LP: #1709523)
- Updated rules for storing default settings
- Updated rules for computation visibility of DSO hints
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9732 Dev (Aug 7, 2017)
- Added support of extra physical data for asteroids
- Added support of outlines for DSO
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9720 Dev (Aug 2, 2017)
- Added support 'A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies' (Abell+, 1989)
- Added meta information about version and edition into file of Stellarium DSO Catalog to avoid potential crash of Stellarium in the future (validation the version of catalog before loading)
- Fixed morphology for SNR
- Fixed issue in parsing of date format in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9709 Dev (Jul 31, 2017)
- Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992)
- Added support 'A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants' (Green, 2014)
- Added export the predictions of Iridium flares (LP: #1707390)
- Fixed couple stupid bugs in InnoSetup script
- Updated selection behaviour in Oculars plugin (avoid selection of objects outside ocular circle in eyepiece mode)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9674 Dev (Jul 24, 2017)
- Added optional calculations of resolution limits for Oculars plugin
- Added new data from IAU Catalog of Star Names (LP: #1705111)
- Added support download zip archives with TLE data to Satellites plugin
- Added link to the Mike McCants' classified TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
- Added link to AMSAT TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
- Fixed orientation angle and its data rendering (LP: #1704561)
- Fixed wrong shadows on Jupiter's moons (Added special case for Jupiter's moons when they are in the shadow of Jupiter for compute magnitudes from Expl. Suppl. 2013 item) (LP: #1704421)
- Fixed work AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool for artificial satellites (a bit slow solution though)
- Fixed search by lists of DSO
- Fixed translation switch issue for AstroCalc/Graphs tool (LP: #1705341)
- Updated DSO catalog to version 3.2
- Updated limit of magnitude for Oculars plugin (Improvements)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9653 Dev (Jul 15, 2017)
- Added option to allow users to choose output formatting of coordinates of objects
- Added optional debug info for HDPI devices
- Fixed HMS formatting
- Fixed generating ISS script
- Fixed tooltips for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed dark nebulae parameters for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed tool for saving options
- Fixed crash when we on the spaceship
- Fixed Solar system class to avoid conflicts and undefined behaviour
- Updated InfoString feature
- Updated behaviour of filters for DSO catalogs
- Updated Solar System Editor plugin (support new format of asteroid names)
- Updated RTS2 telecope driver in Telescope Control plugin.
- Updated API docs
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9620 Dev (Jul 10, 2017)
- Added few moons of Saturn (Phoebe, Janus, Epimetheus, Helene, Telesto, Calypso, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Pan) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added few moons of Uranus (Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Ophelia) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added 2 moons of Pluto (Kerberos and Styx) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added code to avoid conflicts for names of asteroids and moons
- Added support of IAU moon numbers
- Added angular size into AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed a conflict around landscape autoselection (LP: #1700199)
- Updated Maori sky culture
- Updated list of names of deep-sky objects
- Updated behaviour of methods getEnglishName() and getNameI18n() for minor bodies
- Updated behaviour of planetarium for support a new format of asteroid names
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9601 Dev (Jul 3, 2017)
- Added two notations for unit of measurement of surface brightness
- Added improvement for hide/unhide lines and grids in Oculars plugin
- Fixed wrong rendering Neptune and Uranus (LP: #1699648)
- Fixed Vector3 compilation error in unit tests (LP: #1700095)
- Updated sky brightness during solar eclipse (really, there are only few stars visible.)
New in Stellarium 0.16.0 (Jun 23, 2017)
- New features:
- RemoteSync plugin, which allows running several connected instances of Stellarium.
- Non-spherical models for solar system objects like asteroids and small moons.
- Solar system config file is now split into two parts.
- AstroCalc feature extension: What's Up Tonight, graphs, ...
- DSO: Addition of catalogs of peculiar galaxies
- New Skycultures: Belarusian, Hawaiian Star Lines
- Telescope plugin: support for the RTS2 telescope system.
- Location can now be read from a GPS device.
- Full list of changes:
- Added support of irregular solar system objects (3D models of minor bodies) (LP: #1153171)
- Added Remote Sync plugin
- Added GPS devices support (LP: #1448673)
- Added splitting ssystem.ini data now have separate ssystem_major.ini and ssystem_minor.ini. Only the latter shall be editable for the users.
- Added a few more timezone replacements.
- Added support an asterisms for the sky cultures
- Added better identification for existing serial ports for GPS
- Added context support for constellations and asterisms names
- Added support RTS2 for Telescope Control Plugin
- Added a new option in config.ini file esp. for the planetariums (astro/
- flag_forced_meteor_activity=(false|true) to show a sporadic meteors activity without atmosphere).
- Added support of date and time formatting settings from main app to AstroCalc tool.
- Added a line for the approximate time of the meridian passing in AstroCalc tool (LP: #1652523)
- Added TLE tracking to RTS2 telescopes
- Added different star scales in the Oculars plugin, even separately for ocular and CCD views (LP: #1656940)
- Added information on magnification of the combination of eyepiece/lens/telescope in proportions of the telescope diameters.
- Added configurable options to AstroCalc tool
- Added support Catalan (Valencian) language
- Added support Kabyle language
- Added 'What's Up Tonight' tool AstroCalc subsystem (LP: #1080408)
- Added Dark Doodad Nebula to DSO catalog
- Added more data for analysis to the Exoplanets plugin.
- Added calculation of list of visible object for current location (AstroCalc)
- Added tool to remove custom markers by coordinates
- Added support double and variable stars for AstroCalc tool
- Added support translation novae names (parse nova name to extract constellation name and year of flash)
- Added lists of bright double and bright variable stars to Search Tool
- Added customized buttons for toggle ICRS/Galactic/Ecliptic grids (LP: #730689)
- Added customized buttons for toggle constellation boundaries (LP: #1249239)
- Added import/export bookmarks (LP: #1675078)
- Added confirmation before deleting landscape (LP: #1635137)
- Added guessing for name of location and use it when spaceship is landing (LP: #1220561)
- Added an 'Additional settings' block for selected object info
- Added showing a proper motions for some stars
- Added an optional indication of mount mode (LP: #1172860)
- Added option to toggle the usage the buttons background on bottom bar (LP: #1589702)
- Added config option for planet apparent magnitude configuration
- Added description to the planets magnitude algorithm
- Added contrast index for DSO
- Added AstroCalc/Graphs feature
- Added new option to configure behaviour of Satellites (Satellites/time_rate_limit = 1.0)
- Added a scripting function to retrieve property names (helpful for configuring RemoteSync).
- Added 3 additional catalogs to our DSO catalog (Arp, VV, PK)
- Added packing of DSO catalog
- Added the showing the groups of the artificial satellites
- Added Belarusian sky culture
- Adding Hawaiian Starlines sky culture
- Added list of bright stars with high proper motion to the Search Tool/Lists and AstroCalc/Positions features
- Added lunar magnitude to sky brightness computation (brightness variation during lunar eclipses!) (LP: #1471546)
- Added property handling for the labels for ArchaeoLines plugin.
- Added Ukrainian translation for Belarusian skyculture
- Added Ukrainian translation for Hawaiian Starlines skyculture
- Added context and improve English phrase (AstroCalc)
- Added missed zh_HK zh_TW zh_CN descriptions for western sky-culture (LP: #1698473)
- Added Belarusian description for Belarusian sky culture (LP: #1698535)
- Added Bengali description for Belarusian sky culture (LP: #1698608)
- Added 'simulation speed' for tooltip of time (LP: #1698510)
- Added saving an angular separation option for phenomena
- Fixed crash when tried use of SIMBAD for offline mode (LP: #1674836)
- Fixed build scripts to update Index once more just before final run.
- Fixed COSPAR designation parser.
- Fixed wrong extinction coordinate frame of Zodiacal Light (LP: #1675699)
- Fixed a missing initialisation (avoids crash at program end)
- Fixed bug for loading default scenery on non-Englush locale in Scenery3D plugin
- Fixed typo in name of dark nebula LDN 935 (LP: #1679066)
- Fixed Scripting Engine: avoiding broken script when calling waitFor() after the point in time to wait.
- Fixed infoMap data for comets.
- Fixed issue of reloading of DSO names when filter of catalogs is updated.
- Fixed small cosmetic bug for SIMBAD status line.
- Fixed the opposition/conjunction longitude line: the line follows the ecliptic pole on date now (LP: #1687307)
- Fixed very stupid bug for Date & Time dialog.
- Fixed translation on-the-fly issue for AstroCalc tool.
- Fixed IAU constellation label for stars with high proper motion (LP: #1690615)
- Fixed crash when AstroCalc tool is active and we are on the spaceship
- Fixed several Coverity issues
- Fixed bug which disabled the bright flare-type Iridium point source drawing
- Fixed fullscreen behaviour on switching tasks (Alt+Tab) (LP: #550337)
- Fixed dynamic eye adaptation behaviour when persistent orbits are enabled
- Fixed switching horizontal/equatorial coordinates for Solar system objects (AstroCalc/Positions)
- Fixed crash when observer is flying on spaceship
- Fixed storing torchlight and coordinate display flag to config (Scenery3D) (LP: #1502245)
- Fixed placing a custom markers on HighDPI devices (LP: #1688985)
- Fixed infostring for ecliptical coordinates data (Nutation)
- Fixed strings consistency for Solar System Editor plug-in (LP: #1698783)
- Fixed string overlap with FOV and FPS labels (LP: #1698789)
- Restore searchable for telescope names (LP: #1686857)
- Updated Scenery3D plugin
- Updated Satellites plugin: refactoring the source code and speed-up rendering of satellites
- Updated rule to create a directory for screenshots (LP: #1626686)
- Updated GUI: refactoring blocks
- Updated a GUI behaviour: a map in LocationDialog resizable is now.
- Updated a GUI behaviour: enabled low resolution for High DPI devices.
- Updated a GUI: added a few GUI text improvements
- Updated InnoSetup script
- Updated and revised stars names
- Updated Historical Supernovae catalog (Added SN 2017cbv)
- Updated meteor showers catalog (Added data for year 2017)
- Updated AstroCalc tool: increased an accuracy of 'Altitude vs. Time' diagram
- Updated AstroCalc tool: speed-up calculations for some types of phenomena
- Updated AstroCalc tool: extension of features for Ephemeris Tool
- Updated AstroCalc tool: improve WUT
- Updated filters for DSO objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Updated sorting rules for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Updated filters for Solar system bodies (AstroCalc/Positions)
- Updated tab rules for Search Tool
- Updated list of locations
- Updated scripts and scripting engine
- Updated list of DSO's names
- Updated headers for AstroCalc tools
- Updated 'Go to home' feature.
- Updated Bookmarks tool.
- Updated API documentation
- Updated Exoplanets plugin: improve placing of the exoplanet systems
- Updated Oculars plugin: the limit for diameter of binoculars aperture upped to 200mm
- Updated calculation for boundaries of IAU constellations
- Updated default supernovae catalog
- Updated Belarusian translation for skycultures
- Updated cmake variable names
- Updated Ocean landscape
- Updated RemoteControl panels with new functionality
- Updated rules for TLE updated: never update TLE's for any date before Oct 4, 1957, 19:28:34GMT ;-)
- Removed script 'Analemma'
- Removed useless vertex color data from asteroid models.
- Removed Polynesian sky culture (replaced by Hawaiian starlines)
New in Stellarium 0.16.0 RC 2.1 (Jun 19, 2017)
- Adding Hawaiian Starlines sky culture
- Added Ukrainian translation for Belarusian skyculture
- Added context and improve English phrase (AstroCalc)
- Added missed zh_HK zh_TW zh_CN descriptions for western sky-culture (LP: #1698473)
- Added Belarusian description for Belarusian sky culture (LP: #1698535)
- Added Bengali description for Belarusian sky culture (LP: #1698608)
- Added 'simulation speed' for tooltip of time (LP: #1698510)
- Fixed switching horizontal/equatorial coordinates for Solar system objects (AstroCalc/Positions)
- Fixed crash when observer is flying on spaceship
- Fixed storing torchlight and coordinate display flag to config (Scenery3D) (LP: #1502245)
- Fixed placing a custom markers on HighDPI devices (LP: #1688985)
- Updated AstroCalc tool: improve WUT
- Updated filters for DSO objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Updated sorting rules for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Updated filters for Solar system bodies (AstroCalc/Positions)
- Updated tab rules for Search Tool
- Removed useless vertex color data from asteroid models.
New in Stellarium 0.16.0 RC (Jun 12, 2017)
- Added splitting ssystem.ini data - now have separate ssystem_major.ini and ssystem_minor.ini. Only the latter shall be editable for the users.
- Fixed dynamic eye adaptation behaviour when persistent orbits are enabled
- Updated Ocean landscape
- Updated RemoteControl panels with new functionality
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9495 Dev (Jun 6, 2017)
- Added contrast index for DSO
- Added AstroCalc/Graphs feature
- Added new option to configure behaviour of Satellites (Satellites/time_rate_limit = 1.0)
- Added a scripting function to retrieve property names (helpful for configuring RemoteSync).
- Added 3 additional catalogs to our DSO catalog (Arp, VV, PK)
- Added packing of DSO catalog
- Added the showing the groups of the artificial satellites
- Added Belarusian sky culture
- Added list of bright stars with high proper motion to the Search Tool/Lists and AstroCalc/Positions features
- Fixed translation on-the-fly issue for AstroCalc tool.
- Fixed IAU constellation label for stars with high proper motion (LP: #1690615)
- Fixed crash when AstroCalc tool is active and we are on the spaceship
- Fixed several Coverity issues
- Fixed bug which disabled the bright flare-type Iridium point source drawing
- Fixed fullscreen behaviour on switching tasks (Alt+Tab) (LP: #550337)
- Updated Satellites plugin: refactoring the source code and speed-up rendering of satellites
- Updated AstroCalc tool: extension of features for Ephemeris Tool
- Updated Belarusian translation for skycultures
- Updated cmake variable names
- Removed script 'Analemma'
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9455 Dev (May 29, 2017)
- Added support of irregular solar system objects (3D models of minor bodies) (LP: #1153171)
- Added Remote Sync plugin
- Added GPS devices support (LP: #1448673)
- Added a few more timezone replacements.
- Added support an asterisms for the sky cultures
- Added better identification for existing serial ports for GPS
- Added context support for constellations and asterisms names
- Added support RTS2 for Telescope Control Plugin
- Added a new option in config.ini file esp. for the planetariums (astro/
- Flag_forced_meteor_activity=(false|true) - to show a sporadic meteors activity without atmosphere).
- Added support of date and time formatting settings from main app to AstroCalc tool.
- Added a line for the approximate time of the meridian passing in AstroCalc tool (LP: #1652523)
- Added TLE tracking to RTS2 telescopes
- Added different star scales in the Oculars plugin, even separately for ocular and CCD views (LP: #1656940)
- Added information on magnification of the combination of eyepiece/lens/telescope in proportions of the telescope diameters.
- Added configurable options to AstroCalc tool
- Added support Catalan (Valencian) language
- Added support Kabyle language
- Added 'What's Up Tonight' tool - AstroCalc subsystem (LP: #1080408)
- Added Dark Doodad Nebula to DSO catalog
- Added more data for analysis to the Exoplanets plugin.
- Added calculation of list of visible object for current location (AstroCalc)
- Added tool to remove custom markers by coordinates
- Added support double and variable stars for AstroCalc tool
- Added support translation novae names (parse nova name to extract constellation name and year of flash)
- Added lists of bright double and bright variable stars to Search Tool
- Added customized buttons for toggle ICRS/Galactic/Ecliptic grids (LP: #730689)
- Added customized buttons for toggle constellation boundaries (LP: #1249239)
- Added import/export bookmarks (LP: #1675078)
- Added confirmation before deleting landscape (LP: #1635137)
- Added guessing for name of location and use it when spaceship is landing (LP: #1220561)
- Added an 'Additional settings' block for selected object info
- Added showing a proper motions for some stars
- Added an optional indication of mount mode (LP: #1172860)
- Added option to toggle the usage the buttons background on bottom bar (LP: #1589702)
- Added config option for planet apparent magnitude configuration
- Added description to the planets magnitude algorithm
- Added contrast index for DSO
- Added AstroCalc/Graphs feature
- Fixed crash when tried use of SIMBAD for offline mode (LP: #1674836)
- Fixed build scripts to update Index once more just before final run.
- Fixed COSPAR designation parser.
- Fixed wrong extinction coordinate frame of Zodiacal Light (LP: #1675699)
- Fixed a missing initialisation (avoids crash at program end)
- Fixed bug for loading default scenery on non-Englush locale in Scenery3D plugin
- Fixed typo in name of dark nebula LDN 935 (LP: #1679066)
- Fixed Scripting Engine: avoiding broken script when calling waitFor() after the point in time to wait.
- Fixed infoMap data for comets.
- Fixed issue of reloading of DSO names when filter of catalogs is updated.
- Fixed small cosmetic bug for SIMBAD status line.
- Fixed the opposition/conjunction longitude line: the line follows the ecliptic pole on date now (LP: #1687307)
- Fixed very stupid bug for Date & Time dialog.
- Fixed translation on-the-fly issue for AstroCalc tool.
- Fixed IAU constellation label for stars with high proper motion (LP: #1690615)
- Fixed crash when AstroCalc tool is active and we are on the spaceship
- Fixed several Coverity issues
- Restore searchable for telescope names (LP: #1686857)
- Updated Scenery3D plugin
- Updated Satellites plugin: refactoring the source code and speed-up rendering of satellites
- Updated rule to create a directory for screenshots (LP: #1626686)
- Updated GUI: refactoring blocks
- Updated a GUI behaviour: a map in LocationDialog resizable is now.
- Updated a GUI behaviour: enabled low resolution for High DPI devices.
- Updated a GUI: added a few GUI text improvements
- Updated InnoSetup script
- Updated and revised stars names
- Updated Historical Supernovae catalog (Added SN 2017cbv)
- Updated meteor showers catalog (Added data for year 2017)
- Updated AstroCalc tool: increased an accuracy of 'Altitude vs. Time' diagram
- Updated AstroCalc tool: speed-up calculations for some types of phenomena
- Updated AstroCalc tool: extension of features for Ephemeris Tool
- Updated list of locations
- Updated scripts and scripting engine
- Updated list of DSO's names
- Updated headers for AstroCalc tools
- Updated 'Go to home' feature.
- Updated Bookmarks tool.
- Updated API documentation
- Updated Exoplanets plugin: improve placing of the exoplanet systems
- Updated Oculars plugin: the limit for diameter of binoculars aperture upped to 200mm
- Updated calculation for boundaries of IAU constellations
- Updated default supernovae catalog
- Removed script 'Analemma'
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9407 Dev (May 20, 2017)
- Added support of irregular solar system objects (3D models of minor bodies) (LP: #1153171)
- Added Remote Sync plugin
- Added an 'Additional settings' block for selected object info
- Added showing a proper motions for some stars
- Added an optional indication of mount mode (LP: #1172860)
- Added option to toggle the usage the buttons background on bottom bar (LP: #1589702)
- Added config option for planet apparent magnitude configuration
- Added description to the planets magnitude algorithm
- Updated Scenery3D plugin
- Updated GUI: refactoring blocks
- Updated calculation for boundaries of IAU constellations
- Updated default supernovae catalog
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9379 Dev (May 13, 2017)
- Added support double and variable stars for AstroCalc tool
- Added support translation novae names (parse nova name to extract constellation name and year of flash)
- Added lists of bright double and bright variable stars to Search Tool
- Added customized buttons for toggle ICRS/Galactic/Ecliptic grids (LP: #730689)
- Added customized buttons for toggle constellation boundaries (LP: #1249239)
- Added import/export bookmarks (LP: #1675078)
- Added confirmation before deleting landscape (LP: #1635137)
- Added guessing for name of location and use it when spaceship is landing (LP: #1220561)
- Updated rule to create a directory for screenshots (LP: #1626686)
- Updated AstroCalc tool: speed-up calculations for some types of phenomena
- Updated Exoplanets plugin: improve placing of the exoplanet systems
- Updated Oculars plugin: the limit for diameter of binoculars aperture upped to 200mm
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9351 Dev (May 8, 2017)
- Added calculation of list of visible object for current location (AstroCalc)
- Added tool to remove custom markers by coordinates
- Updated API documentation
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9333 Dev (May 2, 2017)
- Added 'What's Up Tonight' tool - AstroCalc subsystem (LP: #1080408)
- Added Dark Doodad Nebula to DSO catalog
- Added more data for analysis to the Exoplanets plugin.
- Fixed small cosmetic bug for SIMBAD status line.
- Fixed the opposition/conjunction longitude line: the line follows the ecliptic pole on date now (LP: #1687307)
- Fixed very stupid bug for Date & Time dialog.
- Updated Bookmarks tool.
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9320 Dev (Apr 29, 2017)
- Added configurable options to AstroCalc tool
- Added support Catalan (Valencian) language
- Added support Kabyle language
- Restore searchable for telescope names (LP: #1686857)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9313 Dev (Apr 22, 2017)
- Added a line for the approximate time of the meridian passing in AstroCalc tool (LP: #1652523)
- Added TLE tracking to RTS2 telescopes
- Added different star scales in the Oculars plugin, even separately for ocular and CCD views (LP: #1656940)
- Added information on magnification of the combination of eyepiece/lens/telescope in proportions of the telescope diameters.
- Fixed issue of reloading of DSO names when filter of catalogs is updated.
- Updated time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Updated AstroCalc tool: increased an accuracy of 'Altitude vs. Time' diagram
- Updated list of locations
- Updated scripts and scripting engine
- Updated list of DSO's names
- Updated headers for AstroCalc tools
- Updated 'Go to home' feature.
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9285 Dev (Apr 18, 2017)
- Added support Catalan (Valencian) language
- Added a new option in config.ini file esp. for the planetariums (astro/
- flag_forced_meteor_activity=(false|true) - to show a sporadic meteors activity without atmosphere)
- Added support of date and time formatting settings from main app to AstroCalc tool
- Fixed infoMap data for comets.
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9270 Dev (Apr 8, 2017)
- Added support an asterisms for the sky cultures
- Added better identification for existing serial ports for GPS
- Added context support for constellations and asterisms names
- Added support RTS2 for Telescope Control Plugin
- Fixed typo in name of dark nebula LDN 935 (LP: #1679066)
- Fixed Scripting Engine: avoiding broken script when calling waitFor() after the point in time to wait.
- Updated a GUI: added a few GUI text improvements
- Updated Historical Supernovae catalog (Added SN 2017cbv)
- Updated meteor showers catalog (Added data for year 2017)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9248 Dev (Apr 2, 2017)
- Added GPS devices support (LP: #1448673)
- Added a few more timezone replacements.
- Fixed a missing initialisation (avoids crash at program end)
- Fixed bug for loading default scenery on non-Englush locale in Scenery3D plugin
- Updated a GUI behaviour: a map in LocationDialog resizable is now.
- Updated a GUI behaviour: enabled low resolution for High DPI devices.
- Updated InnoSetup script
- Updated and revised stars names
- Added info for GPS devices
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9222 Dev (Mar 26, 2017)
- Fixed crash when tried use of SIMBAD for offline mode (LP: #1674836)
- Fixed build scripts to update Index once more just before final run.
- Fixed COSPAR designation parser.
- Fixed wrong extinction coordinate frame of Zodiacal Light (LP: #1675699)
New in Stellarium 0.15.2 (Mar 21, 2017)
- Added new algorithm for DeltaT from Stephenson, Morrison and Hohenkerk (2016)
- Added use QOpenGLWidget
- Added new option to InfoString group
- Added orbit visualization data for asteroids
- Added calculation of extincted magnitudes of satellites
- Added new type of Solar system objects: sednoids
- Added classificator of objects into Solar System Editor plugin
- Added albedo for infostring (planets and moons)
- Added some improvements and clean up of code in Search Tool
- Added use ISO 8601 to date formatting in Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1655630)
- Added "Restore direction to initial values" in Oculars plugin (LP: #1656085)
- Added the define for GL_DOUBLE again to restore compilation on ARM.
- Added calculation and show of horizontal and vertical scales of visible field of view of CCD (LP: #1656825)
- Added caching for landscapes, including preloading and some other manipulation via scripting.
- Added binning for CCD in Oculars plugin
- Added textures for DSO
- Added a mean solar day (equals to Earth's day) on the Sun for educational purposes
- Added transmitting map of object info via RemoteControl
- Added int property handling with sliders
- Added a scriptable function to retrieve landscape brightness.
- Added Spout licence.txt to Windows installer script
- Added displaying solstices points (LP: #1670046)
- Added extension of objectInfoMaps per object, most useful for scripting (LP: #1670412)
- Added tentative fix for crash without network (LP: #1667703)
- Added separate storing of view direction/FoV and other settings.
- Added Meade MA12 Astrometric Eyepiece support in Oculars plugin
- Added option to change the prediction depth of Iridium flares (Satellites plugin)
- Added tooltips for AstroCalc features
- Fixed indirect dependency to QtOpenGL by QtMultimediaWidgets (LP: #1656525)
- Fixed text encoding in installer (LP: #1652515)
- Fixed changing value of n.dot in tooltip when ephemeris type is changed (LP: #1652762)
- Fixed mistakes in DeltaT stuff
- Fixed typos in AstroCalc tool
- Fixed visual style for spinup/spindown markers
- Fixed missing cross-id of Epsilon Lyrae (LP: #1653388)
- Fixed updating a list of Solar system bodies in AstroCalc tool when new objects added or objects was removed
- Fixed calculation of period for comets on elliptial orbits
- Fixed prediction of Iridium flares (LP: #1643311)
- Fixed saving visibility flag for Bookmarks button (LP: #1654164)
- Fixed refraction for Satellites (LP: #1654331)
- Fixed wrong parallax and distance for IC 59 (LP: #1655423)
- Fixed updating a text in Help window when shortcuts are changed (LP: #1656001)
- Fixed saving flags of visibility of Milky Way and Zodiacal Light (LP: #1656067)
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed few reports of Clang static analyzer
- Fixed double clicks causing crashes (LP: #1656525)
- Fixed packaging QtOpenGL in Windows/macOS packages
- Fixed handling a log lines with missing newline char
- Fixed a bad-value crash in ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed an invalid escape sequence in RemoteControl plugin
- Fixed bug in Search Tool (LP: #1655055)
- Fixed doing a screenshots (do it via FBO solution for QOpenGLWidget)
- Fixed work a button for ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed calculation and rendering CCD frame in Oculars plugin
- Fixed an memory leak with the spheric mirror distorter, and removed stencil buffer from the effect FBO (we don't need it for our rendering) (LP: #1661375)
- Fixed tile-based render performance (always glClear all buffers at the start of the frame) (LP: #1661375)
- Fixed glClear alpha channel usage (glClear alpha to zero instead of one)
- Fixed Scenery3d cubemap rendering (restores rendering)
- Fixed crash, when location 'Sierra Nevada Observatory, Spain' is chosen (LP: #1662113)
- Fixed NetBSD and OpenBSD build by linking glues with Qt5::Gui.
- Fixed size for few DSO textures (NPOT textures for ancient GPUs) (LP: #1641773)
- Fixed crash, when missing a stars catalog from the middle of list (e.g. stars4 is missing and we tried zooming) (LP: #1653315)
- Fixed crash for configure color of generic DSO marker (LP: #1667787)
- Fixed date limit in AstroCalc tool (Set a minimum possible date limit for the range of dates for
- QDateTimeEdit widgets) (LP: #1660208)
- Fixed escaping of symbols for Simbad Lookup (LP: #1669088)
- Fixed DE431 mismatch (LP: #1606583)
- Fixed overbright Sun when zooming in (LP: #1421173)
- Fixed absolute magnitude calculation of the planets, their moons, and the Pluto-Charon system (LP: #1664143)
- Fixed a long-standing bug concerning centering small-fov views in equatorial mount mode (LP: #1484976)
- Fixed influencing sky luminance/eye adaptation for bright objects covered by the landscape horizon. (LP: #1138533)
- Fixed atmospheric brightening by Earth's moon when location is on other planets (LP: #1673283)
- Fixed application of DE43x DeltaT when date outside range of the selected DE43x.
- Fixed Night mode issue for binocular mode of Oculars Plugin (LP: #1673187)
- Fixed altitude computation for landscapes
- Fixed a small error in that Zodiacal light was aligned with Ecliptic J2000, not Ecliptic of date (LP: #1628765)
- Fixed crash Stellarium in debug mode on OS X with Qt 5.7+, through clear GL error state after using QPainter (LP: #1628072)
- Fixed a problem with Qt timezone handling, when some IANA timezones have been renamed compared to entries in our location database (LP: #1662132)
- Allows SkyImages in all reference frames and deprecate the old explicit core.loadSkyImageAltAz() type commands
- Updated rules for usage of custom time zones (the custom time zone may be use in all time now) (LP: #1652763)
- Updated shortcuts
- Updated rules for source package builder
- Updated URL of DSS collection
- Updated detect of OS
- Updated deployment rules for Windows installer
- Updated script for building Stellarium User Guide
- Updated GUI for set coefficients for custom equation of DeltaT
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated ArchaeoLines and Gridlines options to RemoteControl pages
- Updated Tongan sky culture
- Updated catalog of DSO
- Updated common names of DSO
- Updated star names (LP: #1664671)
- Updated Solar System Screen Saver.
- Updated Oculars plugin
- Updated Satellites plugin (Let's start looking to the Iridium on 15 seconds before flash)
- Updated plist data for macOS
- Updated textures of minor planets
- Updated default color scheme
- Removed code for automatic tuning star scales of the view through ocular/CCD (LP: #1656940)
- Code clean-up
- Prevent an unnecessary StelProperty change
- Changed the way the OpenGL format is set once again
New in Stellarium 0.15.2 RC 3 (Mar 20, 2017)
- Added option to change the prediction depth of Iridium flares (Satellites plugin)
- Added tool-tips for AstroCalc features
- Fixed application of DE43x DeltaT when date outside range of the selected DE43x.
- Fixed Night mode issue for binocular mode of Oculars Plugin (LP: #1673187)
- Fixed altitude computation for landscapes
- Fixed a small error in that Zodiacal light was aligned with Ecliptic J2000, not Ecliptic of date (LP: #1628765)
- Fixed crash Stellarium in debug mode on OS X with Qt 5.7+, through clear GL error state after using QPainter (LP: #1628072)
- Fixed a problem with Qt timezone handling, when some IANA timezones have been renamed compared to entries in our location database (LP: #1662132)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9196 Dev (Mar 18, 2017)
- Added separate storing of view direction/FoV and other settings.
- Added Meade MA12 Astrometric Eyepiece support in Oculars plugin
- Fixed overbright Sun when zooming in (LP: #1421173)
- Fixed absolute magnitude calculation of the planets, their moons, and the Pluto-Charon system (LP: #1664143)
- Fixed a long-standing bug concerning centering small-fov views in equatorial mount mode (LP: #1484976)
- Fixed influencing sky luminance/eye adaptation for bright objects covered by the landscape horizon. (LP: #1138533)
- Fixed atmospheric brightening by Earth's moon when location is on other planets (LP: #1673283)
- Updated textures of minor planets
- Updated default color scheme
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9172 Dev (Mar 13, 2017)
- Added extension of objectInfoMaps per object, most useful for scripting (LP: #1670412)
- Added tentative fix for crash without network (LP: #1667703)
- Fixed DE431 mismatch (LP: #1606583)
- Allows SkyImages in all reference frames and deprecate the old explicit core.loadSkyImageAltAz() type commands
- Updated plist data for macOS
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9160 Dev (Mar 5, 2017)
- Added displaying solstices points (LP: #1670046)
- Fixed escaping of symbols for Simbad Lookup (LP: #1669088)
- Updated Satellites plugin (Let's start looking to the Iridium on 15 seconds before flash)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9153 Dev (Feb 27, 2017)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9146 Dev (Feb 18, 2017)
- Added a scriptable function to retrieve landscape brightness
- Fixed an memory leak with the spheric mirror distorter, and removed stencil buffer from the effect FBO (we don't need it for our rendering) (LP: #1661375)
- Fixed tile-based render performance (always glClear all buffers at the start of the frame) (LP: #1661375)
- Fixed glClear alpha channel usage (glClear alpha to zero instead of one)
- Fixed Scenery3d cubemap rendering (restores rendering)
- Fixed crash, when location 'Sierra Nevada Observatory, Spain' is chosen (LP: #1662113)
- Updated catalog of DSO
- Updated common names of DSO
- Updated star names (LP: #1664671)
- Updated Solar System Screen Saver
- Prevent an unnecessary StelProperty change
- Changed the way the OpenGL format is set once again
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9129 Dev (Feb 5, 2017)
- Added transmitting map of object info via RemoteControl
- Added int property handling with sliders
- Updated Tongan sky culture
- Code clean-up
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9120 Dev (Jan 28, 2017)
- Added textures for DSO
- Added a mean solar day (equals to Earth's day) on the Sun for educational purposes
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9115 Dev (Jan 24, 2017)
- Added calculation and show of horizontal and vertical scales of visible field of view of CCD (LP: #1656825)
- Added caching for landscapes, including preloading and some other manipulation via scripting
- Added binning for CCD in Oculars plugin
- Fixed double clicks causing crashes (LP: #1656525)
- Fixed packaging QtOpenGL in Windows/macOS packages
- Fixed handling a log lines with missing newline char
- Fixed a bad-value crash in ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed an invalid escape sequence in RemoteControl plugin
- Fixed bug in Search Tool (LP: #1655055)
- Fixed doing a screenshots (do it via FBO - solution for QOpenGLWidget)
- Fixed work a button for ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed calculation and rendering CCD frame in Oculars plugin
- Updated ArchaeoLines and Gridlines options to RemoteControl pages
- Removed code for automatic tuning star scales of the view through ocular/CCD (LP: #1656940)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9090 Dev (Jan 16, 2017)
- Fixed indirect dependency to QtOpenGL by QtMultimediaWidgets (LP: #1656525)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9086 Dev (Jan 14, 2017)
- Added use QOpenGLWidget
- Added new option to InfoString group
- Added orbit visualization data for asteroids
- Added calculation of extincted magnitudes of satellites
- Added new type of Solar system objects: sednoids
- Added classificator of objects into Solar System Editor plugin
- Added albedo for infostring (planets and moons)
- Added some improvements and clean up of code in Search Tool
- Added use ISO 8601 to date formatting in Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1655630)
- Added "Restore direction to initial values" in Oculars plugin (LP: #1656085)
- Added the define for GL_DOUBLE again to restore compilation on ARM.
- Fixed calculation of period for comets on elliptial orbits
- Fixed prediction of Iridium flares (LP: #1643311)
- Fixed saving visibility flag for Bookmarks button (LP: #1654164)
- Fixed refraction for Satellites (LP: #1654331)
- Fixed wrong parallax and distance for IC 59 (LP: #1655423)
- Fixed updating a text in Help window when shortcuts are changed (LP: #1656001)
- Fixed saving flags of visibility of Milky Way and Zodiacal Light (LP: #1656067)
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed few reports of Clang static analyzer
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9053 Dev (Jan 3, 2017)
- Added new algorithm for DeltaT from Stephenson, Morrison and Hohenkerk (2016)
- Added new option to InfoString group
- Fixed text encoding in installer (LP: #1652515)
- Fixed changing value of n.dot in tooltip when ephemeris type is changed (LP: #1652762)
- Fixed mistakes in DeltaT stuff
- Fixed typos in AstroCalc tool
- Fixed visual style for spinup/spindown markers
- Fixed missing cross-id of Epsilon Lyrae (LP: #1653388)
- Fixed updating a list of Solar system bodies in AstroCalc tool when new objects added or objects was removed
- Updated rules for usage of custom time zones (the custom time zone may be use in all time now) (LP: #1652763)
- Updated shortcuts
- Updated rules for source package builder
- Updated URL of DSS collection
- Updated detect of OS
- Updated deployment rules for Windows installer
- Updated script for building Stellarium User Guide
- Updated GUI for set coefficients for custom equation of DeltaT
- Updated list of contributors
New in Stellarium 0.15.1 (Dec 27, 2016)
- Introduces a few new exciting features:
- The Digital Sky Survey (DSS) can be shown (requires online connection).
- AstroCalc is now available from the main menu and gives interesting new computational insight.
- Stellarium can act as Spout sender (important for multimedia environments; Windows only).
- In addition, a lot of bugs have been fixed.
- wait() and waitFor() in the Scripting Engine no longer inhibits performance of moves.
- DE430/431 DeltaT may be OK now. We still want to test a bit more, though.
- ArchaeoLines also offers two arbitrary declination lines.
- Added support of time zones dependent by location.
- Added new skyculture: Sardinian.
- Added updates and improvements in catalogs.
- Added improvements in the GUI.
- Added cross identification data for stars from Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991)
- Full list of changes:
- Added code which allows to display full-sky multi-resolution remote images projected using the TOAST format
- Added new option to Oculars plugin: enabling automatic install the type of mount from the telescope settings for saving horizontal orientation of CCD frame
- Added new option stars/flag_forced_twinkle=(false|true) for planetariums to enable a twinkling of stars without atmosphere (LP: #1616007)
- Added calculations of conjunction between major planets and deep-sky objects (AstroCalc)
- Added calculations of occultations between major planets and DSO/SSO (AstroCalc)
- Added option to toggle visibility of designations of exoplanets (esp. for exoplanetary systems)
- Added support of time zones dependent by location (LP: #505096, #1492941, #1431926, #1106753, #1099547, #1092629, #898710, #510480)
- Added option in GUI to edit colours of the markings
- Added a special case for educational purpose to drawing orbits for the Solar System Observer
- Added the new config option in the sky cultures for management of boundaries of constellations
- Added support synonyms of star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support reference data for star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support synonyms of DSO names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support native names of DSO (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support reference data for native DSO names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support Spout under Windows (Stellarium is Spout Sender now)
- Added a few trojans and quasi-satellites in ssystem.ini file
- Added a virtual planet 'Earth Observer' for educational purposes (illustration for the Moon phases)
- Added orbit lines for some asteroids and comets
- Added config option to switch between styles of color of orbits (LP: #1586812)
- Added support of separate colors for orbits (LP: #1586812)
- Added function and shortcut for quick reversing direction of time
- Added custom objects to avoid of getting of empty space for Search Tool (SIMBAD mode) and to adding custom markers on the sky (LP: #958218, #1485349)
- Added tool to management of visibility for grids/lines in Oculars plugin
- Added the hiding of supernova remnants before their birth (LP: #1623177)
- Added markers for various poles and zenith/nadir (LP: #1629501, #1366643, #1639010)
- Added markers for equinoxes
- Added supergalactic coordinate system
- Added code for management of SkyPoints in Oculars plugin
- Added notes to the Help window
- Added commands and shortcuts for quick move to celestial poles
- Added textures for deep-sky objects
- Added Millions of light years distance to infostring for galaxies (LP: #1637809)
- Added 2 custom declination lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
- Added dialog with options to adjust of colors of markers of deep-sky objects
- Added new options to infobox
- Added calculating and displaying the Moon phases
- Added allow for proper stopping of time dragging (LP: #1640574)
- Added time scrolling
- Added Scottish Gaelic (gd) translations for landscapes and sceneries.
- Added usage the Qt 5 JSON parser instead of the hand-made one we used so far
- Added synonyms for DSO
- Added names consistency for DSO
- Added support operational statuses for few classes of artificial satellites
- Added special zoom level for Telrad to avoid undefined behaviour of zooming (LP: #1643427)
- Added new icons for Bookmarks and AstroCalc tools
- Added missing Bayer designation of 4 Aurigae (LP: #1645087)
- Added calculations of conjunctions/occultations between planets and bright stars (AstroCalc tool)
- Added 'Altitude vs Time' feature for AstroCalc tool
- Added location identification which adds canonical IAU 3-letter code to infostring and PointerCoordinates plugin
- Added elongation and phase angle to Comet and MinorPlanet infostrings
- Added cross identification data for stars from Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991)
- Added AstroCalc icon (LP: #1641256)
- Added new scriptable methods to CustomObjectMgr class
- Added Sardinian sky culture
- Allow changes of milky way and zodiacal light brightness via GUI while stars switched off (LP: #1651897)
- Fixed visual issue for AstroCalc tool
- Fixed incorrectly escaping of translated strings for some languages in Remote Control plugin (LP: #1608177)
- Fixed disappearing of star labels when the 'Navigational Stars' plugin is loaded and not activated (LP: #1608288)
- Fixed offset issue for image sensor frame in Oculars plugin (LP: #1610629)
- Fixed crash when labels and markers box in sky and Viewing Options tab is ticked (LP: #1609958)
- Fixed spherical distortion with night mode (LP: #1606969)
- Fixed behaviour of buttons on Oculars on-screen control panel (LP: #1609060)
- Fixed misalignment of Veil nebula image (LP: #1610824)
- Fixed build of planetarium without scripting support (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
- Fixed coordinates of the open cluster Melotte 227
- Fixed typos in Kamilorai skyculture
- Fixed cmake typos for scenery3d model (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
- Fixed crash when turning off custom GRS if GRS Details dialogue has not been opened before (LP: #1620083)
- Fixed small issue rounding for JD for DeltaT tooltip on bottom bar
- Fixed rendering orbits of artificial satellites during changing of location through spaceship feature (LP: #1622796)
- Fixed hiding the Moon during a total solar eclipse when option 'limit magnitude' for Solar system objects is enabled
- Fixed small bug for updating catalog in the Bright Novae plugin
- Fixed displaying date and time in AstroCalc Tool (LP: #1630685)
- Fixed a typographical error in coefficient for precession expressions by Vodnark et. al.
- Fixed crash on exit in the debug mode in StelTexture module (LP: #1632355)
- Fixed crash in the debug mode (LP: #1631910)
- Fixed coverity issues
- Fixed obvious typos
- Fixed issue for wrong calculation of exit pupil for binoculars in Oculars plugin (LP: #1632145)
- Fixed issue for Arabic translation (LP: #1635587)
- Fixed packaging on OS X for Qt 5.6.2+
- Fixed calculations of the value of the Moon secular acceleration when JPL DE43x ephemeris is used
- Fixed distances for objects of Caldwell catalogue
- Fixed calculations for transit phenomena (LP: #1641255)
- Fixed missing translations in Remote Control plug-in (LP: #1641296)
- Fixed displaying of localized projection name in Remote Control (LP: #1641297)
- Fixed search localized names of artificial satellites
- Fixed showing translated names of artificial satellite
- Fixed GUI Problem in Satellites plug-in (LP: #1640291)
- Fixed moon size infostring (LP: #1641755)
- Fixed AstroCalc lists transits as occulations (LP: #1641255)
- Fixed resetting of DSO Limit Magnitude by Image Sensor Frame (LP: #1641736)
- Fixed Nova Puppis 1942 coordinates
- Fixed error in light curve model of historical supernovae (LP: #1648978)
- Fixed width of search dialog for Meteor Showers plugin (LP: #1649640)
- Fixed shortcut for "Remove selection of constellations" action (LP: #1649771)
- Fixed retranslation name and type of meteor showers in Meteor Showers when language of application is changed
- Fixed wrong tooltip info (LP: #1650725)
- Fixed Mercury's magnitude formula (LP: #1650757)
- Fixed cross-id error for alpha2 Cen (LP: #1651414)
- Fixed core.moveToAltAzi(90,XX) issue (LP: #1068529)
- Fixed view centered on zenith (restart after save) issue (LP: #1620030)
- Updated DSO Catalog: Added support full of UGC catalog
- Updated DSO Catalog: Added galaxies from PGC2003 catalog (mag
New in Stellarium 0.15.1 RC 2 (Dec 24, 2016)
- Fixed Mercury's magnitude formula (LP: #1650757)
- Fixed cross-id error for alpha2 Cen (LP: #1651414)
- Updated Bengali translation of Sardinian skyculture (LP: #1650733)
- Set usage Bortle index only after year 1825
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8980 Dev (Dec 17, 2016)
- Added config option to switch between styles of color of orbits (LP: #1586812)
- Added support of separate colors for orbits (LP: #1586812)
- Added new scriptable methods to CustomObjectMgr class
- Added Sardinian sky culture
- Fixed width of search dialog for Meteor Showers plugin (LP: #1649640)
- Fixed shortcut for "Remove selection of constellations" action (LP: #1649771)
- Fixed retranslation name and type of meteor showers in Meteor Showers when language of application is changed
- Fixed wrong tooltip info (LP: #1650725)
- Updated info for the landscape actions (LP: #1650727)
- Ensure stable up vector for lookZenith, lookEast etc.
- Restored broken feature (hidding markers for selected planets)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8948 Dev (Dec 12, 2016)
- Added location identification which adds canonical IAU 3-letter code to infostring and PointerCoordinates plugin
- Added elongation and phase angle to Comet and MinorPlanet infostrings
- Added cross identification data for stars from Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991)
- Fixed Nova Puppis 1942 coordinates
- Correctly apply constellation fade duration (LP: #1612967)
- Expanded behaviour of for isolated constellations selection (only for skycultures with IAU generic boundaries) (LP: #1412595)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8940 Dev (Dec 10, 2016)
- Added location identification which adds canonical IAU 3-letter code to infostring and PointerCoordinates plugin
- Added elongation and phase angle to Comet and MinorPlanet infostrings
- Added cross identification data for stars from Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991)
- Fixed Nova Puppis 1942 coordinates
- Correctly apply constellation fade duration (LP: #1612967)
- Expanded behaviour of for isolated constellations selection (only for skycultures with IAU generic boundaries) (LP: #1412595)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8917 Dev (Dec 5, 2016)
- Added new icons for Bookmarks and AstroCalc tools
- Added missing Bayer designation of 4 Aurigae (LP: #1645087)
- Added calculations of conjunctions/occultations between planets and bright stars (AstroCalc tool)
- Added 'Altitude vs Time' feature for AstroCalc tool
- Fixed visual issue for AstroCalc tool
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8898 Dev (Nov 26, 2016)
- Updated Scenery3d plugin.
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8889 Dev (Nov 24, 2016)
- Added support operational statuses for few classes of artificial satellites
- Added special zoom level for Telrad to avoid undefined behaviour of zooming (LP: #1643427)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8863 Dev (Nov 21, 2016)
- Added code which allows to display full-sky multi-resolution remote images projected using the TOAST format.
- Added Scottish Gaelic (gd) translations for landscapes and sceneries.
- Added usage the Qt 5 JSON parser instead of the hand-made one we used so far
- Added synonyms for DSO
- Added names consistency for DSO
- Fixed displaying of localized projection name in Remote Control (LP: #1641297)
- Fixed search localized names of artificial satellites
- Fixed showing translated names of artificial satellite
- Fixed GUI Problem in Satellites plug-in (LP: #1640291)
- Fixed moon size infostring (LP: #1641755)
- Fixed AstroCalc lists transits as occulations (LP: #1641255)
- Fixed resetting of DSO Limit Magnitude by Image Sensor Frame (LP: #1641736)
- Updated stars names (LP: #1641455)
- Updated pulsars catalog & util
- Updating rules for visibility of exoplanets labels
- Minor improvement in ini file writing
- Removed useless translations in ArchaeoLines plug-in
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8842 Dev (Nov 15, 2016)
- Added allow for proper stopping of time dragging (LP: #1640574)
- Added time scrolling
- Fixed calculations for transit phenomena (LP: #1641255)
- Fixed missing translations in Remote Control plug-in (LP: #1641296)
- Re-implement wait() and waitFor() scripting functions to avoid large delays in main thread
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8823 Dev (Nov 8, 2016)
- Added calculations of occultations between major planets and DSO/SSO (AstroCalc)
- Added support synonyms of DSO names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support native names of DSO (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support reference data for native DSO names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added dialog with options to adjust of colors of markers of deep-sky objects
- Added new options to infobox
- Added calculating and displaying the Moon phases
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8803 Dev (Nov 4, 2016)
- Added new option to Oculars plugin: enabling automatic install the type of mount from the telescope settings for saving horizontal orientation of CCD frame
- Added new option stars/flag_forced_twinkle=(false|true) for planetariums to enable a twinkling of stars without atmosphere (LP: #1616007)
- Added calculations of conjunction between major planets and deep-sky objects (AstroCalc)
- Added option to toggle visibility of designations of exoplanets (esp. for exoplanetary systems)
- Added support of time zones dependent by location (LP: #505096, #1492941, #1431926, #1106753, #1099547, #1092629, #898710, #510480)
- Added option in GUI to edit colours of the markings
- Added a special case for educational purpose to drawing orbits for the Solar System Observer
- Added the new config option in the sky cultures for management of boundaries of constellations
- Added support synonyms of star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support reference data for star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added a few trojans and quasi-satellites in ssystem.ini file
- Added a virtual planet 'Earth Observer' for educational purposes (illustration for the Moon phases)
- Added orbit lines for some asteroids and comets
- Added separate colors for orbits: planets (color/planet_orbits_color), asteroids (color/asteroid_orbits_color) and comets (color/comet_orbits_color)
- Added function and shortcut for quick reversing direction of time
- Added custom objects to avoid of getting of empty space for Search Tool (SIMBAD mode) and to adding custom markers on the sky (LP: #958218, #1485349)
- Added tool to management of visibility for grids/lines in Oculars plugin
- Added the hiding of supernova remnants before their birth (LP: #1623177)
- Added markers for various poles and zenith/nadir (LP: #1629501)
- Added markers for equinoxes
- Added supergalactic coordinate system
- Added code for management of SkyPoints in Oculars plugin
- Added notes to the Help window
- Added commands and shortcuts for quick move to celestial poles
- Added textures for deep-sky objects
- Added Millions of light years distance to infostring for galaxies (LP: #1637809)
- Added 2 custom declination lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed incorrectly escaping of translated strings for some languages in Remote Control plugin (LP: #1608177)
- Fixed disappearing of star labels when the 'Navigational Stars' plugin is loaded and not activated (LP: #1608288)
- Fixed offset issue for image sensor frame in Oculars plugin (LP: #1610629)
- Fixed crash when labels and markers box in sky and Viewing Options tab is ticked (LP: #1609958)
- Fixed spherical distortion with night mode (LP: #1606969)
- Fixed behaviour of buttons on Oculars on-screen control panel (LP: #1609060)
- Fixed misalignment of Veil nebula image (LP: #1610824)
- Fixed build of planetarium without scripting support (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
- Fixed coordinates of the open cluster Melotte 227
- Fixed typos in Kamilorai skyculture
- Fixed cmake typos for scenery3d model (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
- Fixed crash when turning off custom GRS if GRS Details dialogue has not been opened before (LP: #1620083)
- Fixed small issue rounding for JD for DeltaT tooltip on bottom bar
- Fixed rendering orbits of artificial satellites during changing of location through spaceship feature (LP: #1622796)
- Fixed hiding the Moon during a total solar eclipse when option 'limit magnitude' for Solar system objects is enabled
- Fixed small bug for updating catalog in the Bright Novae plugin
- Fixed displaying date and time in AstroCalc Tool (LP: #1630685)
- Fixed a typographical error in coefficient for precession expressions by Vodnark et. al.
- Fixed crash on exit in the debug mode in StelTexture module (LP: #1632355)
- Fixed crash in the debug mode (LP: #1631910)
- Fixed coverity issues
- Fixed obvious typos
- Fixed issue for wrong calculation of exit pupil for binoculars in Oculars plugin (LP: #1632145)
- Fixed issue for Arabic translation (LP: #1635587)
- Fixed packaging on OS X for Qt 5.6.2+
- Fixed calculations of the value of the Moon secular acceleration when JPL DE43x ephemeris is used
- Fixed distances for objects of Caldwell catalogue
- Updated DSO Catalog: Added support full of UGC catalog
- Updated DSO Catalog: Added galaxies from PGC2003 catalog (mag
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8774 Dev (Oct 29, 2016)
- Added support of time zones dependent by location (LP: #505096, #1492941, #1431926, #1106753, #1099547, #1092629, #898710, #510480).
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8761 Dev (Oct 22, 2016)
- Added textures for deep-sky objects.
- Fixed issue for Arabic translation (LP: #1635587).
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8756 Dev (Oct 18, 2016)
- Added commands and shortcuts for quick move to celestial poles
- Fixed crash in the debug mode (LP: #1631910)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8743 Dev (Oct 15, 2016)
- Added new option to Oculars plugin: enabling automatic install the type of mount from the telescope settings for saving horizontal orientation of CCD frame
- Added new option stars/flag_forced_twinkle=(false|true) for planetariums to enable a twinkling of stars without atmosphere (LP: #1616007)
- Added calculations of conjunction between major planets and deep-sky objects (AstroCalc)
- Added option to toggle visibility of designations of exoplanets (esp. for exoplanetary systems)
- Added option in GUI to edit colours of the markings
- Added a special case for educational purpose to drawing orbits for the Solar System Observer
- Added the new config option in the sky cultures for management of boundaries of constellations
- Added support synonyms of star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support reference data for star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added a few trojans and quasi-satellites in ssystem.ini file
- Added a virtual planet 'Earth Observer' for educational purposes (illustration for the Moon phases)
- Added orbit lines for some asteroids and comets
- Added separate colors for orbits: planets (color/planet_orbits_color), asteroids (color/asteroid_orbits_color) and comets (color/comet_orbits_color)
- Added function and shortcut for quick reversing direction of time
- Added custom objects to avoid of getting of empty space for Search Tool (SIMBAD mode) and to adding custom markers on the sky (LP: #958218, #1485349)
- Added tool to management of visibility for grids/lines in Oculars plugin
- Added the hiding of supernova remnants before their birth (LP: #1623177)
- Added markers for various poles and zenith/nadir (LP: #1629501)
- Added markers for equinoxes
- Added supergalactic coordinate system
- Added code for management of SkyPoints in Oculars plugin
- Added notes to the Help window
- Fixed incorrectly escaping of translated strings for some languages in Remote Control plugin (LP: #1608177)
- Fixed disappearing of star labels when the 'Navigational Stars' plugin is loaded and not activated (LP: #1608288)
- Fixed offset issue for image sensor frame in Oculars plugin (LP: #1610629)
- Fixed crash when labels and markers box in sky and Viewing Options tab is ticked (LP: #1609958)
- Fixed spherical distortion with night mode (LP: #1606969)
- Fixed behaviour of buttons on Oculars on-screen control panel (LP: #1609060)
- Fixed misalignment of Veil nebula image (LP: #1610824)
- Fixed build of planetarium without scripting support (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
- Fixed coordinates of the open cluster Melotte 227
- Fixed typos in Kamilorai skyculture
- Fixed cmake typos for scenery3d model (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
- Fixed crash when turning off custom GRS if GRS Details dialogue has not been opened before (LP: #1620083)
- Fixed small issue rounding for JD for DeltaT tooltip on bottom bar
- Fixed rendering orbits of artificial satellites during changing of location through spaceship feature (LP: #1622796)
- Fixed hiding the Moon during a total solar eclipse when option 'limit magnitude' for Solar system objects is enabled
- Fixed small bug for updating catalog in the Bright Novae plugin
- Fixed displaying date and time in AstroCalc Tool (LP: #1630685)
- Fixed a typographical error in coefficient for precession expressions by Vodnark et. al.
- Fixed crash on exit in the debug mode in StelTexture module (LP: #1632355)
- Fixed coverity issues
- Fixed obvious typos
- Fixed issue for wrong calculation of exit pupil for binoculars in Oculars plugin (LP: #1632145)
- Updated DSO Catalog: Added support full of UGC catalog
- Updated DSO Catalog: Added galaxies from PGC2003 catalog (mag
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8723 Dev (Oct 10, 2016)
- Added markers for celestial poles and zenith/nadir (LP: #1629501)
- Added supergalactic coordinate system
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8715 Dev (Oct 8, 2016)
- Added custom objects to avoid of getting of empty space for Search Tool (SIMBAD mode) and to adding custom markers on the sky (LP: #958218, #1485349)
- Added tool to management of visibility for grids/lines in Oculars plugin
- Added the hiding of supernova remnants before their birth (LP: #1623177)
- Fixed displaying date and time in AstroCalc Tool (LP: #1630685)
- Fixed a typographical error in coefficient for precession expressions by Vodnark et. al.
- Removed color profiles from PNG files
- Removed the flips of the CCD frame because it works incorrect and he introduced new one bug
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8706 Dev (Oct 1, 2016)
- Added a virtual planet 'Earth Observer' for educational purposes (illustration for the Moon phases)
- Added orbit lines for some asteroids and comets
- Added separate colors for orbits: planets (color/planet_orbits_color), asteroids (color/asteroid_orbits_color) and comets (color/comet_orbits_color)
- Added function and shortcut for quick reversing direction of time
- Fixed spherical distortion with night mode (LP: #1606969)
- Fixed hiding the Moon during a total solar eclipse when option 'limit magnitude' for Solar system objects is enabled
- Fixed small bug for updating catalog in the Bright Novae plugin
- Updated Search Tool (LP: #958218)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8690 Dev (Sep 17, 2016)
- Added the new config option in the sky cultures for management of boundaries of constellations
- Added support synonyms of star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added support reference data for star names (2nd edition of the sky cultures)
- Added a few trojans and quasi-satellites in ssystem.ini file
- Fixed small issue rounding for JD for DeltaT tooltip on bottom bar
- Fixed rendering orbits of artificial satellites during changing of location through spaceship feature (LP: #1622796)
- Hide supernova remnants before their birth (LP: #1623177)
- Updated list of star names for Western sky culture
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8679 Dev (Sep 12, 2016)
- Fixed crash when turning off custom GRS if GRS Details dialogue has not been opened before (LP: #1620083)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8675 Dev (Sep 5, 2016)
- Added new option stars/flag_forced_twinkle=(false|true) for planetariums to enable a twinkling of stars without atmosphere (LP: #1616007)
- Added calculations of conjunction between major planets and deep-sky objects (AstroCalc)
- Added option to toggle visibility of designations of exoplanets (esp. for exoplanetary systems)
- Added option in GUI to edit colours of the markings
- Added a special case for educational purpose to drawing orbits for the Solar System Observer
- Updated DSO Catalog: Added support full of UGC catalog
- Updated DSO Catalog: Added galaxies from PGC2003 catalog (mag
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8635 Dev (Aug 12, 2016)
- Added new option to Oculars plugin: enabling automatic install the type of mount from the telescope settings for saving horizontal orientation of CCD frame
- Fixed behavior of buttons on Oculars on-screen control panel (LP: #1609060)
- Fixed misalignment of Veil nebula image (LP: #1610824)
New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8628 Dev (Aug 9, 2016)
- Fixed incorrectly escaping of translated strings for some languages in Remote Control plugin (LP: #1608177)
- Fixed disappearing of star labels when the 'Navigational Stars' plugin is loaded and not activated (LP: #1608288)
- Fixed offset issue for image sensor frame in Oculars plugin (LP: #1610629)
- Fixed crash when labels and markers box in sky and Viewing Options tab is ticked (LP: #1609958)
- Fixed build of planetarium without scripting support (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
- Fixed coordinates of the open cluster Melotte 227
- Fixed typos in Kamilorai skyculture
- Fixed cmake typos for scenery3d model (Thanks to Alexey Dokuchaev for the bug report)
- Removed color profiles from PNG files
- Updated settings for AstroCalc
- Updated Stellarium User Guide
New in Stellarium 0.15.0 (Jul 31, 2016)
- Added getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides (SoCiS2015 project)
- Added RemoteControl and preliminary RemoteSync plugins (SoCiS2015 project)
- Added StelProperty system (SoCiS2015 project)
- Added immediate saving of settings for plugins (Angle Measure, Archeo Lines, Compass Marks)
- Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
- Added Bengali description for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1548627)
- Added new skycultures: Macedonian, Ojibwe, Dakota/Lakota/Nakota, Kamilaroi/Euahlayi
- Added support Off-Axis Guider feature in Oculars plugin (LP: #1354427)
- Added support permanent rotation angle for CCD in Oculars plugin
- Added type of mount for telescopes in Oculars plugin
- Added improvements for displaying data in decimal format
- Added possibility to drawing of permanent orbits of the planets (disables of hiding orbits for planets, when they are out of field of view). (LP: #1509674)
- Added tentative support for screens with 4K resolution for Windows packages (LP: #1372781)
- Enabled support for side-by-side assembly technology for Windows packages (LP: #1400045)
- Added CLI options --angle-d3d9, --angle-d3d11, --angle-warp for fine-tuning ANGLE flavour selection on Windows.
- Added improvements in Stellarium's installer on Windows
- Added improvements in Telescope Control plugin
- Added feature for build a dependency graphs of various characteristics of exoplanets (Exoplanets plugin)
- Added support of the proper names for exoplanets and their host stars (Exoplanets plugin)
- Added improvement for Search Tool
- Added improvement for scripting engine
- Added their Bayer designation for some stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
- Added updates and improvements in Stellarium DSO Catalog
- Added initial support of subset of The Washington Double Star Catalog (LP: #1537449)
- Added Prime Vertical and Colures lines
- Added new functions for Scripting Engine
- Added new DSO textures
- Finished migration from Phonon to QtMultimedia (LP: #1260108)
- Added scripting function to block tracking or centering for special installations.
- Added visualization of ephemerides
- Added config option for animation speed of pointers (gui/pointer_animation_speed = 1.0)
- Added implementation of semi-transparent mask in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1511393)
- Added hiding the halo when inner planet between Sun and observer (or moon between planet and observer) (LP: #1533647)
- Added a tool for fill custom settings of position of Great Red Spot on Jupiter
- Added Bookmarks tool (LP: #1106779)
- Added new scripts: Best objects in the New General Catalog, The Jack Bennett Catalog, Binosky: Deep Sky Objects for Binoculars, Herschel 400 Tour, Binocular Highlights, 20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars, List of largest known stars
- Added Circumpolar Circles (LP: #1590785)
- Added Miller Cylindrical Projection
- Allow viewport offset change in scripts.
- Allow centering zenith or pole via scripting (LP: #1068529)
- Allow freezing/unfreezing average atmospheric brightness (e.g. for balanced-brightness image export scripts.)
- Allow saving of output.txt to another file so that it can be read by other programs on Windows while Stellarium is still open.
- Allow min/max values and wraparound settings for AngleSpinBox
- Allow configurable speed and script speed buttons
- Allow storing and retrieval of screen location for StelDialogs (LP: #1249251)
- Allow polygonal horizons with many negative values (LP: #1554639)
- Allow altitude-dependent twinkling for stars (LP: #1594065)
- Allow display of sun's halo if sun is just outside viewport (LP: #1294498)
- Reconfigure viewDialog GUI to put constellation switches to skylore tab.
- Limit location coordinate spinboxes to useful coordinates
- Apply Fluctuations in the Moon's Mean Longitude in DeltaT calculations (Source: Spencer Jones, H., 'The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets', MNRAS, 99 (1939), 541-558 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1939MNRAS..99..541S])
- Applying device pixel ratio to the pixmap, so that it displays correctly on Mac's.
- Added improvements for Paste and Search feature (Search Tool)
- Added ecliptical coordinates info for objects in scripting engine
- Added exit pupil calculation in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1500225)
- Added support MSVC2015
- Added automatic reloading catalogs after updating for some plugins
- Added a tour of Messier Objects
- Added fix to circumvent text rendering bug (CLI option: -t)
- Introduce env variable STEL_OPTS to allow preconfiguring default CLI options.
- Added option for hide background under buttons on bottom toolbar (LP: #1204639)
- Added check position on the screen for orbits of satellites (LP: #1510530)
- Added new option to changing behaviour of displaying of the labels of DSO on the screen (LP: #1600283)
- Star catalogues has been updated from 'XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation' data.
- Fixed validation of day in Date and Time dialog (LP: #1206284)
- Fixed display of sidereal time (mod24), show apparent sidereal time only if nutation is used.
- Fixed issue of saving some setting from the View window (LP: #1509639)
- Fixed issue for reset of number of satellite orbit segments (LP: #1510592)
- Fixed bug in download of stars catalogs in debug mode (LP: #1514542)
- Fixed issue with smooth blending/fading in ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed loading scenes for Scenery 3D plugin (LP: #1533069)
- Fixed connection troubles in Telescope Control Plugin on Windows (LP: #1530372)
- Fixed wrong altitude of culmination in Observability plugin (LP: #1531561)
- Fixed the meteor radiants movements when time is switched manually (LP: #1535950)
- Fixed misbehaving zoom out to initial view position (LP: #1537446)
- Fixed format for declination in AstroCalc
- Fixed value of ecliptic obliquity and ecliptic coordinates of date (LP: #1520792)
- Fixed zoom/art brightness handling (LP: #1520783)
- Fixed perspective mode with offset viewport in scenery3d (LP: #1509728)
- Fixed drawing reticle for telescope (LP: #1526348)
- Fixed wrong altitudes for some locations (LP: #1530759)
- Fixed window location having offscreen frame when leaving fullscreen (LP: #1471954)
- Fixed core.moveToAltAzi(90,XX) issue (LP: #1068529)
- Fixed some skyculture links
- Fixed issue of sidereal time: sidereal time is no longer displayed negative in the Western timezones.
- Fixed online search tool for MPC website
- Fixed translation of Egyptian planet names (LP: #1548008)
- Fixed bug about wrong rise/set times in Observability for years far in the past
- Fixed issue for resets flip buttons in Oculars plugin (LP: #1511389)
- Fixed proper detection of GLSL ES version on Raspberry Pi with VC4 driver (and maybe other devices).
- Fixed odd DateTimeDialog behavior during daylight saving change
- Fixed key handling issue on Mac OS X in Scenery3D (LP: #1566805)
- Fixed omission in documentation (LP: #1574583, #1575059)
- Fixed a loss of focus in the sky when you click on the button (LP: #1578773)
- Fixed issue of getting location from network.
- Fixed bug in visualization of opposition/conjunction longitude
- Fixed crash of Navigational Stars plugin (LP: #1598375)
- Fixed satellites mutual occultation (LP: #1389765)
- Fixed NaN in landscape brightness computation (LP: #1597129)
- Fixed oversized corona (LP: #1599513)
- Fixed displaying common names of DSO after changes filters of catalogs (LP: #1600283)
- Ensure Large File Support for DE431 also for ARM boards.
- Changed behaviour for drawing of the planet orbits (LP: #1509673)
- Make moon halo visible again even when below -45 degrees (LP: #1586796)
- Reduce planet brightness in daylight (LP: #1503248)
- Updated AstroCalc tool
- Updated icons for View dialog
- Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
- Updated names of stars (LP: #1550642)
- Updated the search rules in the search dialog (LP: #1593965)
- Avoid false display of tiny eclipse factor (rounding error).
- Avoid issues around GLdouble in GLES2/ARM boards.
- Reduce brightness of stars for ocular and CCD views
- Hide displaying markers for meteor radiants during daylight
- Cosmetic updates in Equation Of Time plugin
- Enabled permanent visualization of position angles for galaxies
- Updated bookmarks in Solar System Editor plugin
- Updated default config options
- Updated scripts
- Updated shortcuts for scripts
- Updated norwegian skyculture descriptions
- Updated connection behaviour for autodiscovery location through network (FreeGeoIP)
- Updated and optimized GUI
- Updated Navigational Stars plugin
- Implementation of quick turning to different directions (examples: CdC, HNSKY)
- Important optimizations of planet position computation
- Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO
- Refactoring of the generating parts of the infrastructure (LP: #1571391)
- Refactoring Telescope Control plugin
- Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
- Removed rotation of movement by convergence angle correction in Scenery 3D plugin.
New in Stellarium 0.14.90.8555 Dev (Jul 17, 2016)
New in Stellarium 0.14.90.8530 Dev (Jul 11, 2016)
- Added initial support of subset of The Washington Double Star Catalog (LP: #1537449)
- Added new option to changing behaviour of displaying of the labels of DSO on the screen (LP: #1600283)
- Fixed oversized corona (LP: #1599513)
- Fixed displaying common names of DSO after changes filters of catalogs (LP: #1600283)
- Avoid issues around GLdouble in GLES2/ARM boards.
New in Stellarium 0.14.90.8497 Dev (Jul 2, 2016)
- Fixed crash of Navigational Stars plugin (LP: #1598375)
- Fixed satellites mutual occultation (LP: #1389765)
- Fixed NaN in landscape brightness computation (LP: #1597129)
- Updated star catalogues
New in Stellarium 0.14.90.8490 Dev (Jun 26, 2016)
- Star catalogues has been updated from 'XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation' data.
New in Stellarium 0.14.90.8461 Dev (Jun 19, 2016)
- Added RemoteControl and preliminary RemoteSync plugins (SoCiS2015 project)
- Added StelProperty system (SoCiS2015 project)
- Reduce brightness of stars for ocular and CCD views
- Updated bookmarks in Solar System Editor plugin
New in Stellarium 0.14.90.8418 Dev (Jun 4, 2016)
- Added new skycultures: Macedonian, Ojibwe, Dakota/Lakota/Nakota
- Make moon halo visible again even when below -45 degrees (LP: #1586796)
New in Stellarium 0.14.83.0 Dev (May 8, 2016)
- Added getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides (SoCiS2015 project)
- Added immediate saving of settings for plugins (Angle Measure, Archeo Lines, Compass Marks)
- Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
- Added Bengali description for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1548627)
- Added support Off-Axis Guider feature in Oculars plugin (LP: #1354427)
- Added support permanent rotation angle for CCD in Oculars plugin
- Added type of mount for telescopes in Oculars plugin
- Added improvements for displaying data in decimal format
- Added possibility to drawing of permanent orbits of the planets (disables of hiding orbits for planets, when they are out of field of view). (LP: #1509674)
- Added tentative support for screens with 4K resolution for Windows packages (LP: #1372781)
- Enabled support for side-by-side assembly technology for Windows packages (LP: #1400045)
- Added CLI options --angle-d3d9, --angle-d3d11, --angle-warp for fine-tuning ANGLE flavour selection on Windows.
- Added improvements in Stellarium's installer on Windows
- Added improvements in Telescope Control plugin
- Added feature for build a dependency graphs of various characteristics of exoplanets (Exoplanets plugin)
- Added support of the proper names for exoplanets and their host stars (Exoplanets plugin)
- Added improvement for Search Tool
- Added improvement for scripting engine
- Added their Bayer designation for some stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
- Added updates and improvements in Stellarium DSO Catalog
- Added Prime Vertical and Colures lines
- Added new functions for Scripting Engine
- Added new DSO textures
- Finished migration from Phonon to QtMultimedia (LP: #1260108)
- Added scripting function to block tracking or centering for special installations.
- Added visualization of ephemerides
- Added config option for animation speed of pointers (gui/pointer_animation_speed = 1.0)
- Added implementation of semi-transparent mask in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1511393)
- Added hiding the halo when inner planet between Sun and observer (or moon between planet and observer) (LP: #1533647)
- Added a tool for fill custom settings of position of Great Red Spot on Jupiter
- Added Bookmarks tool (LP: #1106779)
- Added new scripts: Best objects in the New General Catalog, The Jack Bennett Catalog, Binosky: Deep Sky Objects for Binoculars, Herschel 400 Tour, Binocular Highlights, 20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars, List of largest known stars
- Allow viewport offset change in scripts.
- Allow centering zenith or pole via scripting (LP: #1068529)
- Allow freezing/unfreezing average atmospheric brightness (e.g. for balanced-brightness image export scripts.)
- Allow saving of output.txt to another file so that it can be read by other programs on Windows while Stellarium is still open.
- Allow min/max values and wraparound settings for AngleSpinBox
- Allow configurable speed and script speed buttons
- Allow storing and retrieval of screen location for StelDialogs (LP: #1249251)
- Reconfigure viewDialog GUI to put constellation switches to skylore tab.
- Limit location coordinate spinboxes to useful coordinates
- Apply Fluctuations in the Moon's Mean Longitude in DeltaT calculations (Source: Spencer Jones, H., 'The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets', MNRAS, 99 (1939), 541-558 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1939MNRAS..99..541S])
- Applying device pixel ratio to the pixmap, so that it displays correctly on Mac's.
- Added improvements for Paste and Search feature (Search Tool)
- Added ecliptical coordinates info for objects in scripting engine
- Added exit pupil calculation in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1500225)
- Added support MSVC2015
- Added automatic reloading catalogs after updating for some plugins
- Added a tour of Messier Objects
- Added fix to circumvent text rendering bug (CLI option: -t)
- Introduce env variable STEL_OPTS to allow preconfiguring default CLI options.
- Fixed display of sidereal time (mod24), show apparent sidereal time only if nutation is used.
- Fixed issue of saving some setting from the View window (LP: #1509639)
- Fixed issue for reset of number of satellite orbit segments (LP: #1510592)
- Fixed bug in download of stars catalogs in debug mode (LP: #1514542)
- Fixed issue with smooth blending/fading in ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed loading scenes for Scenery 3D plugin (LP: #1533069)
- Fixed connection troubles in Telescope Control Plugin on Windows (LP: #1530372)
- Fixed wrong altitude of culmination in Observability plugin (LP: #1531561)
- Fixed the meteor radiants movements when time is switched manually (LP: #1535950)
- Fixed misbehaving zoom out to initial view position (LP: #1537446)
- Fixed format for declination in AstroCalc
- Fixed value of ecliptic obliquity and ecliptic coordinates of date (LP: #1520792)
- Fixed zoom/art brightness handling (LP: #1520783)
- Fixed perspective mode with offset viewport in scenery3d (LP: #1509728)
- Fixed drawing reticle for telescope (LP: #1526348)
- Fixed wrong altitudes for some locations (LP: #1530759)
- Fixed window location having offscreen frame when leaving fullscreen (LP: #1471954)
- Fixed core.moveToAltAzi(90,XX) issue (LP: #1068529)
- Fixed some skyculture links
- Fixed issue of sidereal time: sidereal time is no longer displayed negative in the Western timezones.
- Fixed online search tool for MPC website
- Fixed translation of Egyptian planet names (LP: #1548008)
- Fixed bug about wrong rise/set times in Observability for years far in the past
- Fixed issue for resets flip buttons in Oculars plugin (LP: #1511389)
- Fixed proper detection of GLSL ES version on Raspberry Pi with VC4 driver (and maybe other devices).
- Fixed odd DateTimeDialog behavior during daylight saving change
- Fixed key handling issue on Mac OS X in Scenery3D (LP: #1566805)
- Fixed omission in documentation (LP: #1574583, #1575059)
- Fixed a loss of focus in the sky when you click on the button (LP: #1578773)
- Ensure Large File Support for DE431 also for ARM boards.
- Changed behaviour for drawing of the planet orbits (LP: #1509673)
- Reduce planet brightness in daylight (LP: #1503248)
- Updated icons for View dialog
- Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
- Updated names of stars (LP: #1550642)
- Avoid false display of tiny eclipse factor (rounding error).
- Hide displaying markers for meteor radiants during daylight
- Cosmetic updates in Equation Of Time plugin
- Enabled permanent visualization of position angles for galaxies
- Updated default config options
- Updated scripts
- Updated shortcuts for scripts
- Updated norwegian skyculture descriptions
- Updated connection behaviour for autodiscovery location through network (FreeGeoIP)
- Updated and optimized GUI
- Implementation of quick turning to different directions (examples: CdC, HNSKY)
- Important optimizations of planet position computation
- Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO
- Refactoring of the generating parts of the infrastructure (LP: #1571391)
- Refactoring Telescope Control plugin
- Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
- Removed rotation of movement by convergence angle correction in Scenery 3D plugin.
New in Stellarium 0.14.82.2 Dev (May 3, 2016)
- Fixed omission in documentation (LP: #1574583, #1575059)
- Refactoring Telescope Control plugin
New in Stellarium 0.14.81.0 Dev (Apr 17, 2016)
- Added new scripts: Best objects in the New General Catalog, The Jack Bennett Catalog, Binosky: Deep Sky Objects for Binoculars, Herschel 400 Tour, Binocular Highlights, 20 Fun Naked-Eye Double Stars, List of largest known stars
- Important optimizations of planet position computation
New in Stellarium 0.14.80.0 Dev (Apr 9, 2016)
- Added a tool for fill custom settings of position of Great Red Spot on Jupiter
- Added Bookmarks tool (LP: #1106779)
New in Stellarium 0.14.79.0 Dev (Apr 2, 2016)
- Added support MSVC2015
- Added automatic reloading catalogs after updating for some plugins
- Added a tour of Messier Objects
- Added fix to circumvent text rendering bug (CLI option: -t)
- Introduce env variable STEL_OPTS to allow preconfiguring default CLI options.
- Fixed proper detection of GLSL ES version on Raspberry Pi with VC4 driver (and maybe other devices).
- Fixed odd DateTimeDialog behavior during daylight saving change
- Ensure Large File Support for DE431 also for ARM boards.
- Updated shortcuts for scripts
- Updated Norwegian skyculture descriptions
- Updated connection behavior for auto-discovery location through network (FreeGeoIP)
- Updated and optimized GUI
New in Stellarium 0.14.78.1 Dev (Mar 22, 2016)
- Added getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides (SoCiS2015 project)
- Added immediate saving of settings for plugins (Angle Measure, Archeo Lines, Compass Marks)
- Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
- Added Bengali description for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1548627)
- Added support Off-Axis Guider feature in Oculars plugin (LP: #1354427)
- Added support permanent rotation angle for CCD in Oculars plugin
- Added type of mount for telescopes in Oculars plugin
- Added improvements for displaying data in decimal format
- Added possibility to drawing of permanent orbits of the planets (disables of hiding orbits for planets, when they are out of field of view). (LP: #1509674)
- Added tentative support for screens with 4K resolution for Windows packages (LP: #1372781)
- Enabled support for side-by-side assembly technology for Windows packages (LP: #1400045)
- Added CLI options --angle-d3d9, --angle-d3d11, --angle-warp for fine-tuning ANGLE flavour selection on Windows.
- Added improvements in Stellarium's installer on Windows
- Added improvements in Telescope Control plugin
- Added feature for build a dependency graphs of various characteristics of exoplanets (Exoplanets plugin)
- Added support of the proper names for exoplanets and their host stars (Exoplanets plugin)
- Added improvement for Search Tool
- Added improvement for scripting engine
- Added their Bayer designation for some stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
- Added updates and improvements in Stellarium DSO Catalog
- Added Prime Vertical and Colures lines
- Added new functions for Scripting Engine
- Added new DSO textures
- Finished migration from Phonon to QtMultimedia (LP: #1260108)
- Added scripting function to block tracking or centering for special installations.
- Added visualization of ephemerides
- Added config option for animation speed of pointers (gui/pointer_animation_speed = 1.0)
- Added implementation of semi-transparent mask in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1511393)
- Added hiding the halo when inner planet between Sun and observer (or moon between planet and observer) (LP: #1533647)
- Allow viewport offset change in scripts.
- Allow centering zenith or pole via scripting (LP: #1068529)
- Allow freezing/unfreezing average atmospheric brightness (e.g. for balanced-brightness image export scripts.)
- Allow saving of output.txt to another file so that it can be read by other programs on Windows while Stellarium is still open.
- Allow min/max values and wraparound settings for AngleSpinBox
- Allow configurable speed and script speed buttons
- Allow storing and retrieval of screen location for StelDialogs (LP: #1249251)
- Reconfigure viewDialog GUI to put constellation switches to skylore tab.
- Limit location coordinate spinboxes to useful coordinates
- Apply Fluctuations in the Moon's Mean Longitude in DeltaT calculations (Source: Spencer Jones, H., 'The Rotation of the Earth, and the Secular Accelerations of the Sun, Moon and Planets', MNRAS, 99 (1939), 541-558 [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1939MNRAS..99..541S])
- Applying device pixel ratio to the pixmap, so that it displays correctly on Mac's.
- Added improvements for Paste and Search feature (Search Tool)
- Added ecliptical coordinates info for objects in scripting engine
- Added exit pupil calculation in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1500225)
- Fixed display of sidereal time (mod24), show apparent sidereal time only if nutation is used.
- Fixed issue of saving some setting from the View window (LP: #1509639)
- Fixed issue for reset of number of satellite orbit segments (LP: #1510592)
- Fixed bug in download of stars catalogs in debug mode (LP: #1514542)
- Fixed issue with smooth blending/fading in ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed loading scenes for Scenery 3D plugin (LP: #1533069)
- Fixed connection troubles in Telescope Control Plugin on Windows (LP: #1530372)
- Fixed wrong altitude of culmination in Observability plugin (LP: #1531561)
- Fixed the meteor radiants movements when time is switched manually (LP: #1535950)
- Fixed misbehaving zoom out to initial view position (LP: #1537446)
- Fixed format for declination in AstroCalc
- Fixed value of ecliptic obliquity and ecliptic coordinates of date (LP: #1520792)
- Fixed zoom/art brightness handling (LP: #1520783)
- Fixed perspective mode with offset viewport in scenery3d (LP: #1509728)
- Fixed drawing reticle for telescope (LP: #1526348)
- Fixed wrong altitudes for some locations (LP: #1530759)
- Fixed window location having offscreen frame when leaving fullscreen (LP: #1471954)
- Fixed core.moveToAltAzi(90,XX) issue (LP: #1068529)
- Fixed some skyculture links
- Fixed issue of sidereal time: sidereal time is no longer displayed negative in the Western timezones.
- Fixed online search tool for MPC website
- Fixed translation of Egyptian planet names (LP: #1548008)
- Fixed bug about wrong rise/set times in Observability for years far in the past
- Fixed issue for resets flip buttons in Oculars plugin (LP: #1511389)
- Changed behaviour for drawing of the planet orbits (LP: #1509673)
- Reduce planet brightness in daylight (LP: #1503248)
- Updated icons for View dialog
- Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
- Updated names of stars (LP: #1550642)
- Avoid false display of tiny eclipse factor (rounding error).
- Hide displaying markers for meteor radiants during daylight
- Cosmetic updates in Equation Of Time plugin
- Enabled permanent visualization of position angles for galaxies
- Updated default config options
- Updated scripts
- Updated connection behaviour for autodiscovery location through network (FreeGeoIP)
- Implementation of quick turning to different directions (examples: CdC, HNSKY)
- Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO
- Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
- Removed rotation of movement by convergence angle correction in Scenery 3D plugin.
New in Stellarium 0.14.3 (Mar 20, 2016)
- Added Bengali description for landscapes (LP: #1548627)
- Added background transparency in Oculars plugin (LP: #1511393)
- Fixed serial port issue on Windows version (LP: #1543813)
- Fixed MESA mode on Windows (LP: #1509735)
- Fixed Stellarium crashes in ocular view of Saturn/Neptune/Uranus (LP: #1495232)
- Fixed artifacts in rendering of Mercury in the Sun (LP: #1533647)
- Fixed loading scenes for Scenery 3D plugin (LP: #1533069)
- Fixed movement of radiant when time is switched manually (LP: #1535950)
- Fixed changing name of planet (LP: #1548008)
New in Stellarium 0.14.75.1 Dev (Feb 29, 2016)
- Added Bengali description for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1548627)
- Added new functions for Scripting Engine
- Fixed bug about wrong rise/set times in Observability for years far in the past
- Updated names of stars (LP: #1550642)
New in Stellarium 0.14.72.1 Dev (Feb 6, 2016)
- Added visualization of ephemerides
- Added config option for animation speed of pointers (gui/pointer_animation_speed = 1.0)
- Added improvements for Paste and Search feature (Search Tool)
- Fixed misbehaving zoom out to initial view position (LP: #1537446)
- Fixed online search tool for MPC website
New in Stellarium 0.14.71.0 Dev (Jan 31, 2016)
- Added feature for build a dependency graphs of various characteristics of exoplanets (Exoplanets plugin)
- Added support of the proper names for exoplanets and their host stars (Exoplanets plugin)
- Added improvement for Search Tool
- Applying device pixel ratio to the pixmap, so that it displays correctly on Macs
- Fixed issue of sidereal time: sidereal time is no longer displayed negative in the Western timezones
New in Stellarium 0.14.70.0 Dev (Jan 23, 2016)
- Added getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides (SoCiS2015 project)
- Allow storing and retrieval of screen location for StelDialogs (LP: #1249251)
- Fixed the meteor radiants movements when time is switched manually (LP: #1535950)
- Updated connection behaviour for autodiscovery location through network (FreeGeoIP)
New in Stellarium 0.14.2 (Jan 8, 2016)
- Reduce planet brightness in daylight (LP: #1503248)
- Fixed perspective mode with offset viewport in scenery3d (LP: #1509728)
- Fixed wrong altitudes for some locations (LP: #1530759)
- Fixed some skyculture links
- Fixed editing some shortcut keys (LP: #1530567)
- Fixed drawing reticle for telescope (LP: #1526348)
- Fixed wrong altitude of culmination in Observability plugin (LP: #1531561)
- Fixed connection troubles in Telescope Control Plugin on Windows (LP: #1530372)
- Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO
- Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
- Updated default config options
- Updated icons for View dialog
- Updated Stellarium DSO Catalog
- Added list of dwarf galaxies (Search Tool)
- Added improvements in Scenery 3D plugin
New in Stellarium 0.14.67.0 Dev (Jan 2, 2016)
- Added scripting function to block tracking or centering for special installations.
- Allow viewport offset change in scripts.
- Allow centering zenith or pole via scripting (LP: #1068529)
- Allow freezing/unfreezing average atmospheric brightness (e.g. for balanced-brightness image export scripts.)
- Allow saving of output.txt to another file so that it can be read by other programs on Windows while Stellarium is still open.
- Allow min/max values and wraparound settings for AngleSpinBox
- Reconfigure viewDialog GUI to put constellation switches to skylore tab.
- Limit location coordinate spinboxes to useful coordinates
- Fixed issue with smooth blending/fading in ArchaeoLines plugin
New in Stellarium 0.14.66.0 Dev (Dec 27, 2015)
- Allow saving of output.txt to another file so that it can be read by other programs on Windows while Stellarium is still open.
- Fixed drawing reticle for telescope (LP: #1526348)
- Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
- Removed rotation of movement by convergence angle correction in Scenery 3D plugin.
New in Stellarium 0.14.61.0 Dev (Dec 7, 2015)
- Added improvement for scripting engine
- Added updates and improvements in Stellarium DSO Catalog
- Add Prime Vertical and Colures lines
- Reconfigure viewDialog GUI to put constellation switches to skylore tab.
- Reduce planet brightness in daylight (LP: #1503248)
- Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
- Fixed value of ecliptic obliquity and ecliptic coordinates of date (LP: #1520792)
- Fixed zoom/art brightness handling (LP: #1520783)
- Fixed perspective mode with offset viewport in scenery3d (LP: #1509728)
New in Stellarium 0.14.1 (Dec 2, 2015)
- Added support for side-by-side assembly technology (LP: #1400045)
- Enhancements of the Ocular plugin: add OAG support (LP: #1354427)
- Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
- Added designations for few stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
- Fixed constellation art brightness and zooming (LP: #1520783)
- Fixed number of satellite orbit segments resets (LP: #1510592)
- Fixed certain outplanet moons with wrong Longitudes (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
- Fixed saving settings for some View panel options (LP: #1509639)
- Fixed fails to run up on Windows when invoked from a different directory (LP: #1410529)
- Fixed wrong value of ecliptic obliquity (LP: #1520792)
- Fixed segmentation fault (core dumped) while try update stars catalog (LP: #1514542)
- Tentative fix for support 4K resolution (GUI scaling) (LP: #1372781)
New in Stellarium 0.14.58.0 Dev (Nov 30, 2015)
- Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
- Added CLI options --angle-d3d9, --angle-d3d11, --angle-warp for fine-tuning ANGLE flavour selection on Windows.
- Added their Bayer designation for some stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
- Fixed bug in download of stars catalogs in debug mode (LP: #1514542)
- Fixed rotation issue for Phobos, Deimos, Ganymede & Callisto (LP: #1509693)
New in Stellarium 0.14.56.0 Dev (Nov 16, 2015)
- Added possibility to drawing of permanent orbits of the planets (disables of hiding orbits for planets, when they are out of field of view). (LP: #1509674)
- Added improvements in Telescope Control plugin
New in Stellarium 0.14.55.0 Dev (Nov 8, 2015)
- Added support Off-Axis Guider feature in Oculars plugin (LP: #1354427)
- Added support permanent rotation angle for CCD in Oculars plugin
- Added type of mount for telescopes in Oculars plugin
- Added improvements for displaying data in decimal format
New in Stellarium 0.14.50.0 Dev (Nov 2, 2015)
- Added immediate saving of settings for plugins (Angle Measure, Archeo Lines, Compass Marks)
- Fixed issue of saving some setting from the View window (LP: #1509639)
- Fixed issue for reset of number of satellite orbit segments (LP: #1510592)
- Updated list of available COM ports for Windows (Telescope Control Plug-in, human readable mode)
- Hide displaying markers for meteor radiants during daylight
- Cosmetic updates in Equation Of Time plugin
- Enabled persistent visualization of position angles for galaxies
New in Stellarium 0.14.0 (Oct 24, 2015)
- Precession now follows the IAU2006 model in the long-time version from Vondrák et al. 2011.
- Nutation is applied (IAU2000B solution). Given that nobody has observed it without telescope and the model does not give limits of applicability, we limit its application to 1500..2500
- Application of DeltaT has been simplified and made a bit more intuitive. We now dare to add another coordinate system: Ecliptic coordinates of date. We can therefore now show that planetary positions given by the commonly used solution VSOP87 is applicable to -4000..+8000 only, and its use outside this range will give somewhat artificial results. There is more to follow in future versions.
- The other big addition is a greatly improved collection of DSO data with lots of possibilities in a new GUI tab to select for object type and/or catalog. In total, 15 catalogs are now built-in!
- Also the Meteor Shower, Satellites, Telescope Control and 3D Sceneries plugins have been improved.
- Landscapes can have switchable labels, so you can e.g. indicate mountain peaks.
- In total 83 bugs and wishlist items were fixed or at least decided.
- Changelog:
- Added accurate calculations of the ecliptic obliquity. Finally we have good precession! (LP: #512086, #1126981, #1240070, #1282558, #1444323)
- Added calculations of the nutation. Now we optionally have IAU-2000B nutation. (Applied between 1500..2500 only.)
- Added new DSO catalog and related to him features (LP: #1453731, #1432243, #1285175, #1237165, #1189983, #1153804, #1127633, #1106765, #1106761, #957083)
- Added Iridium flares to Satellites plugin (LP: #1106782)
- Added tool for prediction of Iridium flares to Satellites plugin
- Added AstroCalc a tool for calculating planetary phenomena (LP: #1181702)
- Added list of interesting double stars in Search Tool
- Added list of interesting variable stars in Search Tool
- Added cross-identification data for HIP stars (SAO and HD numbers)
- Added sinusoidal projection
- Added draw DSO symbols with different colors
- Added labels to the landscapes (gazetteer support)
- Added a new behaviour for drawing of orbit for selected planet drawing of the orbits of 'hierarchical group' (parent and all their childrens) of the selected celestial body (disabled by default) (LP: #1071457).
- Added an option to lower the horizon, e.g. for a widescreen cylindrical view with mostly sky and ground on lower screen border (LP: #1299063).
- Added various timeshift-by-year commands (LP: #1478670)
- Added Moon's phases info
- Added support of SOCKS5 proxies (LP: #1499974)
- Rewriting the Meteor module and the Meteor Showers plugin (LP: #1471143)
- Updated skycultures (LP: #1497818)
- Updated Hungarian and Brazilian Portuguese translations of landscapes and skycultures
- Updated data for Solar System Observer
- Updated color scheme for constellations
- Updated documentation
- Updated QZip stuff
- Updated TUI plugin
- Updated data for Satellites plugin
- Updated Clang support
- Updated Pluto and Charon textures
- Updated GCVS catalog
- Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1240791)
- Using a better formula for CCD FOV calculation in Oculars plugin (LP: #1440330)
- Updated on-screen control panel in Oculars plugin (LP: #1467286)
- Updated list of detection operating systems (LP: #1504910)
- Fixed shortkeys conflict (New shortkeys for Scenery 3D plugin LP: #1449767)
- Fixed aliasing issue with GCC in star data unpacking
- Fixed documentation for core.wait() function (LP: #1450870)
- Fixed perspective projection issue (LP: #724868)
- Fixed crash on activation of AngleMeasure in debug mode (LP: #1455839)
- Fixed crash in Sinusoidal Projection (LP: #1472555)
- Fixed issue for update bottom bar position when we toggle the GUI (LP: #1409023)
- Fixed weird view of the Moon in Oculars plugin when Moon's scaling is enabled
- Fixed non-realistic mode drawing of artificial satellites
- Fixed availability plugins for the scripting engine (LP: #1468986)
- Fixed potention memory bug in Meteor class
- Fixed wrong spectral types for some stars (LP: #1429530)
- Fixed style of progress bar (LP: #1419895)
- Fixed tooltip colors in night mode (LP: #1300801)
- Fixed visibility of selected object info in night mode (LP: #1487096)
- Fixed behaviour of waitFor function (scripting engine) (LP: #1051858)
- Fixed resize event handler on Windows (LP: #1490265)
- Fixed regression bug of key movements
- Fixed magnitude of the Sun during solar eclipse (LP: #1485245)
- Fixed obvious omission in Observability plugin after having separated JD/JDE (LP: #1499161)
- Fixed night mode on retina display (LP: #1458109)
- Fixed unusual meteor shower display (LP: #1506126)
- Enable autosaving the state by default for Compass Marks plugin (LP: #1410987)
- Added escape counter to allow exiting loop in solving Kepler's equation (LP: #1465112)
- Added limitation magnitude for solar system objects (LP: #1409543)
- Added extinctive reddening on the horizon for planets, esp. visible for Sun/Moon/bright planets (LP: #1448621)
- Added tooltip for 'Select single constellation' option (LP: #1498022)
- Avoid entering locations with leading whitespace (LP: #1083731)
- Avoid rendering of sunlight and moonlight when show of Solar System objects is disabled (LP: #1499699)
- Change visibleSkyArea limitation to allow landscapes with "holes" in the ground. (LP: #1469407)
- Improved Delta T feature (LP: #1380242)
- Improved the ad-hoc visibility formula for LDN and LBN
- Improved the sight opportunities when artificial satellites are passes (LP: #907318)
- Changed behaviour of coloring of orbits of artificial satellites: we use gray color for parts of orbits, where satellite will be invisible (LP: #914751)
- Improved coloring and rendering artificial satellites (include their labels) in the Earth shadow for both modes (LP: #1436954)
- Improved for landscape and lightscape brightness with/without atmosphere. Now even considers landscape opacity for no-atmosphere conditions.
- Reduce Milky Way brightness in moonlight
- Enhancement of features in Telescope Control plugin (LP: #1469450)
- Removed all references to QDeclarative
- Removed meaningless extincted magnitude data in infostring if objects are below horizon
- Restore drawing corona of the Sun during total solar eclipse (LP: #1435065)
New in Stellarium 0.13.95.0 Dev (Oct 17, 2015)
- Fixed crash in Sinusoidal Projection (LP: #1472555)
- Fixed unusual meteor shower display (LP: #1506126)
New in Stellarium 0.13.70.1 Dev (Sep 15, 2015)
- Added accurate calculations of the ecliptic obliquity. Finally we have good precession! (LP: #512086, #1126981, #1240070, #1282558, #1444323)
- Added calculations of the nutation. Now we optionally have IAU-2000B nutation. (Applied between 1500..2500 only.)
- Added new DSO catalog and related to him features (LP: #1453731, #1432243, #1285175, #1237165, #1189983, #1153804, #1127633, #1106765, #1106761, #957083)
- Added Iridium flares to Satellites plugin (LP: #1106782)
- Added tool for prediction of Iridium flares to Satellites plugin
- Added AstroCalc a tool for calculating planetary phenomena (LP: #1181702)
- Added list of interesting double stars in Search Tool
- Added list of interesting variable stars in Search Tool
- Added cross-identification data for HIP stars (SAO and HD numbers)
- Added sinusoidal projection
- Added draw DSO symbols with different colors
- Added labels to the landscapes (gazetteer support)
- Added a new behaviour for drawing of orbit for selected planet drawing of the orbits of 'hierarchical group' (parent and all their childrens) of the selected celestial body (disabled by default) (LP: #1071457).
- Added an option to lower the horizon, e.g. for a widescreen cylindrical view with mostly sky and ground on lower screen border (LP: #1299063).
- Added various timeshift-by-year commands (LP: #1478670)
- Added Moon's phases info
- Rewriting the Meteor module and the Meteor Showers plugin (LP: #1471143)
- Updated skycultures
- Updated Hungarian and Brazilian Portuguese translations of landscapes and skycultures
- Updated data for Solar System Observer
- Updated color scheme for constellations
- Updated documentation
- Updated QZip stuff
- Updated TUI plugin
- Updated data for Satellites plugin
- Updated Clang support
- Updated Pluto and Charon textures
- Updated GCVS catalog
- Using a better formula for CCD FOV calculation in Oculars plugin (LP: #1440330)
- Fixed shortkeys conflict (New shortkeys for Scenery 3D plugin LP: #1449767)
- Fixed aliasing issue with GCC in star data unpacking
- Fixed documentation for core.wait() function (LP: #1450870)
- Fixed perspective projection issue (LP: #724868)
- Fixed crash on activation of AngleMeasure in debug mode (LP: #1455839)
- Fixed issue for update bottom bar position when we toggle the GUI (LP: #1409023)
- Fixed weird view of the Moon in Oculars plugin when Moon's scaling is enabled
- Fixed non-realistic mode drawing of artificial satellites
- Fixed availability plugins for the scripting engine (LP: #1468986)
- Fixed potention memory bug in Meteor class
- Fixed wrong spectral types for some stars (LP: #1429530)
- Fixed style of progress bar (LP: #1419895)
- Fixed tooltip colors in night mode (LP: #1300801)
- Fixed visibility of selected object info in night mode (LP: #1487096)
- Fixed behaviour of waitFor function (scripting engine) (LP: #1051858)
- Fixed resize event handler on Windows (LP: #1490265)
- Fixed regression bug of key movements
- Fixed magnitude of the Sun during solar eclipse (LP: #1485245)
- Enable autosaving the state by default for Compass Marks plugin (LP: #1410987)
- Added escape counter to allow exiting loop in solving Kepler's equation (LP: #1465112)
- Avoid entering locations with leading whitespace (LP: #1083731)
- Change visibleSkyArea limitation to allow landscapes with "holes" in the ground. (LP: #1469407)
- Improved Delta T feature (LP: #1380242)
- Improved the ad-hoc visibility formula for LDN and LBN
- Improved the sight opportunities when artificial satellites are passes (LP: #907318)
- Changed behaviour of coloring of orbits of artificial satellites: we use gray color for parts of orbits, where satellite will be invisible (LP: #914751)
- Improved coloring and rendering artificial satellites (include their labels) in the Earth shadow for both modes (LP: #1436954)
- Improved for landscape and lightscape brightness with/without atmosphere. Now even considers landscape opacity for no-atmosphere conditions.
- Reduce Milky Way brightness in moonlight
- Enhancement of features in Telescope Control plugin (LP: #1469450)
- Removed all references to QDeclarative
- Restore drawing corona of the Sun during total solar eclipse (LP: #1435065)
New in Stellarium 0.13.70.0 Dev (Sep 7, 2015)
- Added tool for prediction of Iridium flares to Satellites plugin
- Updated Charon textures
- Fixed regression bug of key movements
- Fixed magnitude of the Sun during solar eclipse (LP: #1485245)
- Restore drawing corona of the Sun during total solar eclipse (LP: #1435065)
New in Stellarium 0.13.69.0 Dev (Aug 31, 2015)
- Removed all references to QDeclarative
New in Stellarium 0.13.68.0 Dev (Aug 24, 2015)
- Added AstroCalc - a tool for calculating planetary phenomena (LP: #1181702)
- Updated GCVS catalog
- Fixed style of progress bar (LP: #1419895)
- Fixed tooltip colors in night mode (LP: #1300801)
- Fixed visibility of selected object info in night mode (LP: #1487096)
- Fixed behaviour of waitFor function (scripting engine) (LP: #1051858)
- Enable autosaving the state by default for Compass Marks plugin (LP: #1410987)
- Avoid entering locations with leading whitespace (LP: #1083731)
New in Stellarium 0.13.66.0 Dev (Aug 14, 2015)
- Fixed wrong spectral types for some stars (LP: #1429530)
New in Stellarium 0.13.65.0 Dev (Aug 10, 2015)
- Added accurate calculations of the ecliptic obliquity. Finally we have good precession! (LP: #512086, #1126981, #1240070, #1282558, #1444323)
- Added calculations of the nutation. Now we optionally have IAU-2000B nutation. (Applied between 1500..2500 only.)
- Added new DSO catalog and related to him features (LP: #1453731, #1432243, #1285175, #1237165, #1189983, #1153804, #1127633, #1106765, #1106761, #957083)
- Added an option to lower the horizon, e.g. for a widescreen cylindrical view with mostly sky and ground on lower screen border (LP: #1299063).
- Added various timeshift-by-year commands (LP: #1478670)
- Added Moon's phases info
- Rewriting the Meteor module and the Meteor Showers plugin (LP: #1471143)
- Updated Pluto texture
- Fixed potential memory bug in Meteor class
- Improved Delta T feature (LP: #1380242)
- Improved for landscape and lightscape brightness with/without atmosphere. Now even considers landscape opacity for no-atmosphere conditions.
New in Stellarium 0.13.60.0 Dev (Jul 13, 2015)
- Added a new behavior for drawing of orbit for selected planet - drawing of the orbits of 'hierarchical group' (parent and all their children) of the selected celestial body (disabled by default).
- Updated skycultures
- Updated Hungarian and Brazilian Portuguese translations of landscapes and skycultures
- Using a better formula for CCD FOV calculation in Oculars plugin (LP: #1440330)
New in Stellarium 0.13.59.0 Dev (Jul 6, 2015)
- Fixed availability plugins for the scripting engine (LP: #1468986)
- Change visibleSkyArea limitation to allow landscapes with "holes" in the ground. (LP: #1469407)
- Reduce Milky Way brightness in moonlight
- Enhancement of features in Telescope Control plugin (LP: #1469450)
New in Stellarium 0.13.58.0 Dev (Jun 22, 2015)
- Added cross-identification data for HIP stars (SAO and HD numbers)
- Added sinusoidal projection
- Added draw DSO symbols with different colors
- Added labels to the landscapes (gazetteer support)
- Updated QZip stuff
- Updated TUI plugin
- Updated data for Satellites plugin
- Updated Clang support
- Fixed non-realistic mode drawing of artificial satellites
- Improved the ad-hoc visibility formula for LDN and LBN
- Improved the sight opportunities when artificial satellites are passes (LP: #907318)
- Changed behaviour of coloring of orbits of artificial satellites: we use gray color for parts of orbits, where satellite will be invisible (LP: #914751)
- Improved coloring and rendering artificial satellites (include their labels) in the Earth shadow for both modes (LP: #1436954)
New in Stellarium 0.13.57 Dev (Jun 19, 2015)
- Updated skycultures
- Fixed issue for update bottom bar position when we toggle the GUI (LP: #1409023)
- Fixed weird view of the Moon in Oculars plugin when Moon's scaling is enabled
New in Stellarium 0.13.56 Dev (May 25, 2015)
- Added Iridium flares to Satellites plugin (LP: #1106782)
- Added list of interesting double stars in Search Tool
- Added list of interesting variable stars in Search Tool
- Updated Hungarian translations of landscapes and skycultures
- Updated data for Solar System Observer
- Updated color scheme for constellations
- Updated documentation
- Fixed shortkeys conflict (New shortkeys for Scenery 3D plugin - LP: #1449767)
- Fixed perspective projection issue (LP: #724868)
- Fixed crash on activation of AngleMeasure in debug mode (LP: #1455839)
New in Stellarium 0.13.55 Dev (May 11, 2015)
- Added Iridium flares to Satellites plugin (LP: #1106782)
- Added list of interesting double stars in Search Tool
- Added list of interesting variable stars in Search Tool
- Updated color scheme for constellations
- Updated documentation
- Fixed short-keys conflict (New short-keys for Scenery 3D plugin - LP: #1449767)
New in Stellarium 0.13.50 Dev (May 4, 2015)
- Added list of interesting double stars in Search Tool
- Updated Hungarian translations of landscapes
- Updated data for Solar System Observer
- Fixed aliasing issue with GCC in star data unpacking
- Fixed documentation for core.wait() function (LP: #1450870)
New in Stellarium 0.13.3 (Apr 27, 2015)
- Added Scenery3D plugin: enable support 3D landscapes
- Added ArchaeoLines plugin: a tool for archaeo-/ethnoastronomical alignment studies
- Added new DSO catalogs: Barnard (B), Van den Bergh (VdB), Sharpless (Sh 2), H-α emission regions in the Southern Milky Way (RCW), Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (LBN), Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (LDN), Collinder (Cr) and Melotte (Mel)
- Added tiny visual improvements for info about comets and minor planets
- Added Hungarian translation for Aztec skyculture
- Added Russian translation for Western: H.A. Rey skyculture
- Added support of meteors for Windows/MSVC packages
- Added patch for multiscreen setups
- Added tui/tui_font_color option for change color of text user interface (LP: #1421998)
- Added new version of GCVS
- Added implementation of polinomial approximation of time period 1620-2013 for DeltaT by M. Khalid, Mariam Sultana and Faheem Zaidi (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/480964
- Added new line on the celestial sphere opposition/conjunction longitude (LP: #1377606)
- Added texture for Ceres (LP: #1271380)
- Extended list of proper names for deep-sky objects
- Fixed position of Great Red Spot (LP: #490019)
- Fixed bug in planet shadow shasder (LP: #1405353)
- Fixed flickering Moon problem (LP: #1411958)
- Fixed jittering moons (LP: #1416824)
- Fixed visibility objects on distance over 50 AU. (LP: #1413381)
- Updated the Spherical projection to be HiDPI aware. (LP: #1385367)
- Restore unit testing for refraction and extinction. Fixed issue in unit test for DeltaT and fixed small issue for DeltaT.
- Fixed issue in core.setObserverLocation (to a new Planet travels always 1 second) (LP: #1414463)
- Fixed issue for cursor, who points to a wrong position after orbit update (LP: #1414824)
- Fixed ignore the Enter key for online search dialog within Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1414814)
- Fixed package issue for Windows XP (LP: #1414233)
- Fixed crash when trying to select a satellite with invalid orbit (LP: #1307357)
- Check of updates has been removed (LP: #1414451)
- Fixed issues in Search Tool (LP: #1416830)
- Fixed code to update ConfigurationDialog size (LP: #995107)
- Behavior of JD/MJD has been refactored for Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1417619)
- Avoid delaying for the telescope control slew commands over TCP (LP: #1418375)
- Avoid crash when clicking 'Lookup locations on network' checkbox in Locations window (Debian: #779046)
- Updated bookmarks for Solar System editor plug-in (LP: #1425626)
- Allowing display the scope marker below the landscape (LP: #1426441)
- Allow fading of the landscapes without atmosphere (LP: #1420741)
- Allow change thickness of lines of the constellations (LP: #1028432)
New in Stellarium 0.13.3 RC 4 (Apr 14, 2015)
- Added ArchaeoLines plugin: a tool for archaeo-/ethnoastronomical alignment studies
New in Stellarium 0.13.3 RC 3 (Apr 6, 2015)
- Added Scenery3D plugin: enable support 3D landscapes
New in Stellarium 0.13.3 RC 2 (Mar 30, 2015)
- Added new DSO catalogs: Barnard (B), Van den Bergh (VdB), Sharpless (Sh 2), H-α emission regions in the Southern Milky Way (RCW), Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (LBN), Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (LDN), Collinder (Cr) and Melotte (Mel)
- Added tiny visual improvements for info about comets and minor planets
- Added Hungarian translation for Aztec skyculture
- Added Russian translation for Western: H.A. Rey skyculture
- Added support of meteors for Windows/MSVC packages
- Added patch for multiscreen setups
- Added tui/tui_font_color option for change color of text user interface (LP: #1421998)
- Added new version of GCVS
- Added implementation of polinomial approximation of time period 1620-2013 for DeltaT by M. Khalid, Mariam Sultana and Faheem Zaidi (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/480964
- Added new line on the celestial sphere opposition/conjunction longitude (LP: #1377606)
- Added texture for Ceres (LP: #1271380)
- Extended list of proper names for deep-sky objects
- Fixed position of Great Red Spot (LP: #490019)
- Fixed bug in planet shadow shasder (LP: #1405353)
- Fixed flickering Moon problem (LP: #1411958)
- Fixed jittering moons (LP: #1416824)
- Fixed visibility objects on distance over 50 AU. (LP: #1413381)
- Updated the Spherical projection to be HiDPI aware. (LP: #1385367)
- Restore unit testing for refraction and extinction. Fixed issue in unit test for DeltaT and fixed small issue for DeltaT.
- Fixed issue in core.setObserverLocation (to a new Planet travels always 1 second) (LP: #1414463)
- Fixed issue for cursor, who points to a wrong position after orbit update (LP: #1414824)
- Fixed ignore the Enter key for online search dialog within Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1414814)
- Fixed package issue for Windows XP (LP: #1414233)
- Fixed crash when trying to select a satellite with invalid orbit (LP: #1307357)
- Check of updates has been removed (LP: #1414451)
- Fixed issues in Search Tool (LP: #1416830)
- Fixed code to update ConfigurationDialog size (LP: #995107)
- Behavior of JD/MJD has been refactored for Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1417619)
- Avoid delaying for the telescope control slew commands over TCP (LP: #1418375)
- Avoid crash when clicking 'Lookup locations on network' checkbox in Locations window (Debian: #779046)
- Updated bookmarks for Solar System editor plug-in (LP: #1425626)
- Allowing display the scope marker below the landscape (LP: #1426441)
- Allow fading of the landscapes without atmosphere (LP: #1420741)
- Allow change thickness of lines of the constellations (LP: #1028432)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2.95 Beta (Mar 23, 2015)
- Allow fading of the landscapes without atmosphere (LP: #1420741)
- Allow change thickness of lines of the constellations (LP: #1028432)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2.92 Beta (Mar 16, 2015)
- Added texture for Ceres (LP: #1271380)
- Fixed code to update ConfigurationDialog size (LP: #995107)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2.91 Beta (Mar 9, 2015)
- Fixed position of Great Red Spot (LP: #490019)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2.90 Beta (Mar 2, 2015)
- Added implementation of polinomial approximation of time period 1620-2013 for DeltaT by M. Khalid, Mariam Sultana and Faheem Zaidi (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/480964
- Added new line on the celestial sphere - opposition/conjunction longitude (LP: #1377606)
- Updated bookmarks for Solar System editor plug-in (LP: #1425626)
- Allowing display the scope marker below the landscape (LP: #1426441)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2.87 Dev (Feb 23, 2015)
- Fixed bug in planet shadow shader (LP: #1405353)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2.85 Dev (Feb 16, 2015)
- Added patch for multiscreen setups
- Added tui/tui_font_color option for change color of text user interface (LP: #1421998)
- Added new version of GCVS
New in Stellarium 0.13.2.82 Dev (Feb 9, 2015)
- Added Hungarian translation for Aztec skyculture
- Added support of meteors for Windows/MSVC packages
- Extended list of proper names for deep-sky objects
- Fixed flickering Moon problem (LP: #1411958)
- Fixed jittering moons (LP: #1416824)
- Fixed issues in Search Tool (LP: #1416830)
- Behavior of JD/MJD has been refactored for Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1417619)
- Avoid delaying for the telescope control slew commands over TCP (LP: #1418375)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2.80 Dev (Jan 31, 2015)
- Added tiny visual improvements for info about comets and minor planets
- Fixed visibility objects on distance over 50 AU. (LP: #1413381)
- Updated the Spherical projection to be HiDPI aware. (LP: #1385367)
- Restore unit testing for refraction and extinction. Fixed issue in unit test for DeltaT and fixed small issue for DeltaT.
- Fixed issue in core.setObserverLocation (to a new Planet travels always 1 second) (LP: #1414463)
- Fixed issue for cursor, who points to a wrong position after orbit update (LP: #1414824)
- Fixed ignore the Enter key for online search dialog within Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1414814)
- Fixed package issue for Windows XP (LP: #1414233)
- Fixed crash when trying to select a satellite with invalid orbit (LP: #1307357)
- Check of updates has been removed (LP: #1414451)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2 (Jan 21, 2015)
- Contains over 70 closed bugs and includes some wishes and new nice features:
- Added shortcut and option for disable illumination layer in landscapes (LP: #1383081)
- Added translations for sky cultures and landscapes
- Added better GUI control and defaults regarding minimal landscape brightness settings
- Added zero landscape
- Added new sky subculture: Arabic Moon Stations
- Added new sky culture: Japanese Moon Stations
- Added new sky culture: Siberian
- Added new sky subculture: Western with R.A.Rey lines of constellations (LP: #1389360)
- Added support native names of the planets for different cultures
- Added a new amazing feature for observations under perfect sky conditions: zodiacal light: sunlight reflected off the interplanetary dust in our solar system (LP: #1106781)
- Added improvements for Oculars plugin (LP: #1388452)
- Added improvements for Angle Measure, Compass Marks, Solar System Editor, Exoplanets and Observability Analysis plugins
- Added new key for config.ini for choosing algorithms of computation of the apparent magnitudes of the planets in case when observer on the Earth (astro/apparent_magnitude_algorithm)
- Added changes to RA's output precision
- Added extinction to Milky Way and the texture for our galaxy was updated
- Added new output data for angular sizes for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
- Added improvements for rendering of the grid lines in the spherical mirror distortion mode (LP: #1382994)
- Added improvements for rendering of the comet tails and comas
- Added improvements for Exoplanets plugin
- Added management of Zodiacal Light into core.clear() method in Scripting Engine.
- Added extension for getObjectInfo() and getSelectedObjectInfo() in scripting engine for case of the objects of Solar system
- Added extension of usage of the decimal angle format: now it used in Angle Measure & Pointer Coordinates plugins too (LP: #1388606)
- Added extension to the coordinate systems in Pointer Coordinates plugin and fix ecliptical coordinates on J2000.0 epoch (LP: #1402488)
- Added shortcut for disable/enable planets
- Added a tool for planning a mosaic astrophotography: shows a small cross at center of CCD's frame and equatorial coordinates for epoch J2000.0 of that center (LP: #1404695)
- Added aliases for couple shortkeys (LP: #947937)
- Added newlines support in satellite descriptions (LP: #869126)
- Added possibility to have trail only for one planet (LP: #1318479)
- Added missing Flamsteed designations of stars (LP: #1406048)
- Added Guernsey Observatory to locations list
- Added simple method to add a Solar system object
- Added display of current Time Zone (LP: #1335513)
- Added few TNO's and comets
- Added alphabetical soft for list in Search Tool
- Added Arabic description for landscapes (LP: #1409339, #1409340, #1409341, #1409342, #1409343, #1409344)
- Fixed errors of getting angular size for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
- Fixed a bug that did not account for HighDPI displays when drawing a CCD in Oculars
- Fixed rendering of the orbits of Neptune's moons (LP: #834737)
- Fixed 12 arcmin. error for method moveToRaDecJ2000 in scripting engine (LP: #1386019)
- Fixed crash for method goHome in scripting engine (LP: #1385280)
- Fixed errors, related to the proper motion of some stars (LP: #1400081)
- Fixed failures for rendering of textures for some moons like Hyperion (LP: #1393083)
- We apply support of multi-touch gestures only for Windows: was resolved the mouse issue on OS X (LP: #1383563, #1385008)
- Fixed missing image feature in Mongolian skyculture
- Fixed underpredicted behaviour of refraction (LP: #1088413)
- Fixed click-match issue (LP: #1398899, #1409586, #1127984, #1045293)
- Fixed night mode style in Ocular Control menu (LP: #1370587)
- Fixed IP-based position lookup fails (LP: #1395480)
- Fixed crash on spherical mirror distortion
- Fixed highlight issue with selection in the Satellites plugin (LP: #1350669)
- Fixed Meade LX200 protocol support (LP: #1405397)
- Fixed wrong import of comets data through online search in the Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1358230)
- Fixed issue in Lists within Search Tool (LP: #1200054)
- Fixed getting of coordinates in the Pointer Coordinates plugin in windowed mode (LP: #1406018)
- Fixed non-display of minus sign for |equation_of_time|
New in Stellarium 0.13.2 RC 3 (Jan 10, 2015)
- Added simple method to add a Solar system object
- Added display of current Time Zone (LP: #1335513)
- Added few TNO's and comets
- Added alphabetical soft for list in Search Tool
- Fixed non-display of minus sign for |equation_of_time|
New in Stellarium 0.13.2 RC 2 (Dec 29, 2014)
- Added a tool for planning a mosaic astrophotography: shows a small cross at center of CCD's frame and equatorial coordinates for epoch J2000.0 of that center (LP: #1404695)
- Added aliases for couple shortkeys (LP: #947937)
- Added newlines support in satellite descriptions (LP: #869126)
- Added possibility to have trail only for one planet (LP: #1318479)
- Added missing Flamsteed designations of stars (LP: #1406048)
- Added Guernsey Observatory to locations list
- Fixed Meade LX200 protocol support (LP: #1405397)
- Fixed wrong import of comets data through online search in the Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1358230)
- Fixed issue in Lists within Search Tool (LP: #1200054)
- Fixed getting of coordinates in the Pointer Coordinates plugin in windowed mode (LP: #1406018)
- Set hint visibility threshold for planets and comets to 5mag below sky limiting magnitude. (LP: #1402188)
New in Stellarium 0.13.2 RC 1 (Dec 22, 2014)
- Added extension to the coordinate systems in Pointer Coordinates plugin and fix ecliptical coordinates on J2000.0 epoch (LP: #1402488)
- Added shortcut for disable/enable planets
- Fixed highlight issue with selection in the Satellites plugin (LP: #1350669)
- Hide info about type when it not defined for this object of solar system (LP: #1404189)
- Fit more realistic magnitude of the Moon for the case of lunar eclipse (LP: #1306811)
New in Stellarium 0.13.1.85 Dev (Nov 24, 2014)
- Added translations for sky cultures and landscapes
- Added better GUI control and defaults regarding minimal landscape brightness settings
- Added zero landscape
- Added improvements for Oculars plugin (LP: #1388452)
- Fixed night mode style in Ocular Control menu (LP: #1370587)
- Meteors don't be visible without enabled atmosphere now
- Made an exclusion for moons with chaotic period of rotation (LP: #1393083)
- Reducing the number of compass marks to those on screen to improve performance (LP: #1307444)
- On returning to home position, display atmosphere and fog only if configured in config file (LP: #1391074)
New in Stellarium 0.13.1.82 Dev (Nov 10, 2014)
- Added improvements for rendering of the grid lines in the spherical mirror distortion mode (LP: #1382994)
- Added improvements for rendering of the comet tails and comas
- Added a new amazing feature for observations under perfect sky conditions - zodiacal light - sunlight reflected off the interplanetary dust in our solar system (LP: #1106781)
- Added extension for getObjectInfo() and getSelectedObjectInfo() in scripting engine for case of the objects of Solar system
- Added extension of usage of the decimal angle format - now it used in Angle Measure & Pointer Coordinates plugins too (LP: #1388606)
New in Stellarium 0.13.1.81 Dev (Nov 3, 2014)
- Added shortcut and option for disable illumination layer in landscapes (LP: #1383081)
- Added new key for config.ini for choosing algorithms of computation of the apparent magnitudes of the planets in case when observer on the Earth (astro/apparent_magnitude_algorithm)
- Added option in GUI in the Oculars plugin for advanced users, who give possibility to enable zooming feature in CCD mode (LP: #1388452)
- Added changes to RA's output precision
- Added extinction to Milky Way and the texture for our galaxy was updated
- Added new output data for angular sizes for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
- Fixed errors of getting angular size for methods getObjectInfo and getSelectedObjectInfo in scripting engine
- Fixed 12 arcmin. error for method moveToRaDecJ2000 in scripting engine (LP: #1386019)
- Fixed crash for method goHome in scripting engine (LP: #1385280)
- We apply support of multi-touch gestures only for Windows - was resolved the mouse issue on OS X (LP: #1383563, #1385008)
- Fixed missing image feature in Mongolian skyculture
New in Stellarium 0.13.1 (Oct 20, 2014)
- Added: Light layer for old_style landscapes
- Added: Auto-detect location via network lookup.
- Added: Seasonal rules for displaying constellations
- Added: Coordinates can be displayed as decimal degrees (LP: #1106743)
- Added: Support of multi-touch gestures on Windows 8 (LP: #1165754)
- Added: FOV on bottom bar can be displayed in DMS rather than fractional degrees (LP: #1361582)
- Added: Oculars plugins support eyepieces with permanent crosshairs (LP: #1364139)
- Added: Pointer Coordinates Plugin can displayed not only RA/Dec (J2000.0) (LP: 1365784, #1377995)
- Added: Angle Measure Plugin can measure positional angles to the horizon now (LP: 1208143)
- Added: Search tool can search position not only for RA/Dec (J2000.0) (LP: #1358706)
- Fixed: Galactic plane renamed to correct: Galactic equator (LP: #1367744)
- Fixed: Speed issues when computing lots of comets (LP: #1350418)
- Fixed: Spherical mirror distortion work correctly now (LP: #676260, #1338252)
- Fixed: Location coordinates on the bottom bar displayed correctly now (LP: #1357799)
- Fixed: Ecliptic coordinates for J2000.0 and grids diplayed correctly now (LP: #1366567, #1369166)
- Fixed: Rule for select a celestial objects (LP: #1357917)
- Fixed: Loading extra star catalogs (LP: #1329500, #1379241)
- Fixed: Creates spurious directory on startup (LP: #1357758)
- Fixed: Various GUI/rendering improvements (LP: #1380502, #1320065, #1338252, #1096050, #1376550, #1382689)
- Fixed: "missing disk in drive " (LP: #1371183)
New in Stellarium 0.13.0 (Jul 19, 2014)
- This version based on Qt 5 and has new modulated core, and new features (examples: normal mapping, comet tails) and fixes for 115 bugs, includes:
- New plugin: Equation of Time - provides solution for Equation of Time.
- New plugin: Field of View - provides shortcuts for quick changes field of view.
- New plugin: Navigational Stars - marks 58 navigational stars on the sky.
- New plugin: Pointer Coordinates - shows the coordinates of the mouse pointer.
- New plugin: Meteor Showers - provides visualization of meteor showers.
- New translatable strings and new textures.
- New version of the Satellites plugin: introduces star-like satellites and bug fixes.
- New version of the Exoplanets plugin: displaying of the potential habitable exoplanets; improvements for performance and code refactoring.
- New version of the Angle Measure plugin: displaying of the position angle.
- New version of the Quasars plugin: improvements for performance; added marker_color parameter.
- New version of the Pulsars plugin: improvements for performance; display pulsars with glitches; setting color for marker for different types of the pulsars.
- New versions of the Compass Marks, Oculars, Historical Supernovae, Observability analysis and Bright Novae plugins: bug fixing, code refactoring and improvements.
New in Stellarium 0.12.4 (Oct 4, 2013)
- fixed crash Stellarium when enabled binoculars in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1222742);
- added render nighttime landscapes without lighting (LP: #1223052)
New in Stellarium 0.12.3 (Sep 11, 2013)
- Bugfix release with new plugin
- new plugin - Bright Novae
- added intermediate value to ZHR of shooting stars between 80 and 10000 (LP: #1208106)
- fixed search tool (LP: #1208296, #1211198)
- fixed behaviour for shortkeys of few plugins (LP: #1208291)
- fixed Flamsteed designations for few Virgo stars (LP: #1222094)
- fixed saving Milky Way brightness via GUI (LP: #1220477)
New in Stellarium 0.12.3 Dev 4 (Sep 6, 2013)
- Improvements for Historical Supernovae and Bright Novae plugins.
New in Stellarium 0.12.2 (Aug 6, 2013)
- Added:
- Variable stars support (LP: #665014)
- Automatic change of landscape on planet change (LP: #1173254)
- Flamsteed designation for stars and search tool (LP: #1190503)
- Changed:
- Repacked default star catalogs (LP: #926588)
- Update DSO features (LP: #1115035, #1172402, #1180493)
- Improved Quasars plugin (LP: #1169232, #1181688)
- Improved Pulsars plugin (LP: #1169230, #1181688)
- Improved Oculars plugin (LP: #1170239, #1188340)
- Improved Historical Supernovae plugin (LP: #1180962)
- Improved Observability analysis plugin (LP: #1171182)
- Improved Exoplanets plugin (LP: #1177871)
- Improved Satellites plugin (LP: #955780)
- Improved search tool (LP: #1181534, #1184599, #1180962)
- Improved scripting engine (LP: #1202637, #1091626)
- Fixed:
- Satellites plugin cause crash when enabled in distant past (LP: #955780)
- Landscape colour saturation at summer noon (LP: #1115364)
- wrong rendering of Planet's shadow (LP: #1131847)
- stellarium crashes (LP: #1157930, #1177871, #1194838, #1173355, #1184599)
- mismatched malloc/delete (LP: #1172931)
- error in template code (LP: #1178257)
- undefined template function in vecmath (LP: #1178391)
- Setting Startup date and time (Other:) sets time to UTC, not my local (EDT) time (LP: #1198570)
- Debug messages don't completely convert paths to local directory separator (LP: #682633)
- Garbled text hovering over time/date (LP: #1176424)
- Set time to now (Icon not illuminated) (LP: #1178498)
- Tongan translation discrepancies (LP: #1181945)
- POD document (LP: #1184459)
- No orbits displayed for some planets' satellites (LP: #834727)
New in Stellarium 0.12.1 (Apr 23, 2013)
- Added:
- Use different formulae for DeltaT calculations (LP: #1106658)
- Show/hide starts at magnitude > X feature (LP: #880256, #1132010)
- Added translations for Inno Setup installer (LP: #1159080)
- Added Caldwell catalog
- New skyculture: Tongan
- New feature for Oculars plugin: support Barlow/Shapley lenses
- Control brightness of the milky way (LP: #1106755)
- Satellites plugin: New Galileo satellites (LP: #1169252)
- Control brightness of the landscapes at startup (LP: #1149882, #603376)
- Changed:
- Repacked default star catalogs (LP: #1124221)
- Repacked locations catalog (LP: #1131036)
- Refactored GUI
- Update textures for DSO (LP: #1126959, #1114645)
- Improved accuracy for NEO (LP: #1100766, #1080154)
- Fixed:
- Sidereal day & sunrise/sunset (LP: #1106754)
- Wrong solar day (LP: #1113249)
- Pluto and Charon are not tidally locked in Stellarium (LP: #968738)
- Search problem in different language (LP: #1131034)
- Bortle light pollution scale setting not working (LP: #1121630)
- The preference of "Render Solar Shadow" cannot be saved (LP: #1114279)
- Background color of the night sky (LP: #1085375)
- Time is slightly off (from system time) (LP: #1113222)
- Dynamic plugins don't load on windows (LP: #1168958)
- Cursor jumps out of altitude input box (LP: #1156112)
- Missing splash screen on Windows and Mac OS X (LP: #1131942)
- Satellite event times differ (LP: #1114644)
- Plugin "Time Zone" display problem on Mac OSX (LP: #1114330)
- Yellow/Black Checkered Flag while Object Picture is Loading (LP: #1113064)
- Omega Centauri strange appearance on Mac (LP: #1114645)
- Planet display bug (LP: #1114036)
- Star on meridian has wrong hour angle (LP: #1131206)
- Location window spin box up/down behavior (LP: #1093229)
New in Stellarium 0.12.0 (Jan 31, 2013)
- New rendering engine, editable keybindings, bug fixes and improvements.
- Added:
- New rendering engine (LP: #673183)
- Editable keybindings (LP: #1098851, #1035635, #832256, #789002)
- Scripting for plugins (LP: #1040242)
- Some transneptunian objects (LP: #899084, #1051205)
- New geographical locations (LP: #1051803)
- New textures for DSO
- DeltaT and lunar acceleration computation (LP: #575621)
- Changed:
- Improving the scripting engine (LP: #1059368)
- Improving the plugins (LP: #1082167, #1042714)
- Improving the coordinate grids (LP: #1036294)
- Improving the constellation boundaries (LP: #1039072)
- Improving the search tool
- Fixed:
- Clang Wself-assign warning during build process on some platforms (LP: #1097358)
- Bugs in Observability plugin (LP: #1042059, #1054599, #1053058)
- Bugs in TUI plugin (LP: #1083380)
- Bugs in Satellites plugin (LP: #1048220)
- Bugs in Compass plugin (LP: #695891)
- Bugs in scripting engine (LP: #1046518, #1092781)
- Font corruption bugs (LP: #597633, #778747, #819278, #903310)
- Screen flashing in fullscreen mode (LP: #716695, #824788)
- Lost nebula images (LP: #1042393, #1051038)
- Bugs in Night Vision mode (LP: #578367)
- Bugs in GUI and Core (LP: #1090722, #1082510, #1071455, #1071458, #1056868, #1054600, #1045111, #1040944, #1077545)
- Crashes (LP: #1043640, #1044654, #1045783)
New in Stellarium 0.12.0 Dev (Jan 28, 2013)
- This release brings some interesting new features:
- New rendering engine (Now you can see shadows on planets surfaces).
- New keybinding engine (Now all keybindings can be edit).
- Improvements for scripting engine.
- Improvements for DSO
- Improvements for search tool
- Improvements accuracy for archaeoastronomical events
- Added:
- New rendering engine (LP: #673183)
- Editable keybindings (LP: #1098851, #1035635, #832256, #789002)
- Scripting for plugins (LP: #1040242)
- Some transneptunian objects (LP: #899084, #1051205)
- New geographical locations (LP: #1051803)
- New textures for DSO
- DeltaT and lunar acceleration computation (LP: #575621)
- Changed:
- Improving the scripting engine (LP: #1059368)
- Improving the plugins (LP: #1082167, #1042714)
- Improving the coordinate grids (LP: #1036294)
- Improving the constellation boundaries (LP: #1039072)
- Improving the search tool
- Fixed:
- Clang Wself-assign warning during build process on some platforms (LP: #1097358)
- Bugs in Observability plugin (LP: #1042059, #1054599, #1053058)
- Bugs in TUI plugin (LP: #1083380)
- Bugs in Satellites plugin (LP: #1048220)
- Bugs in Compass plugin (LP: #695891)
- Bugs in scripting engine (LP: #1046518, #1092781)
- Font corruption bugs (LP: #597633, #778747, #819278, #903310)
- Screen flashing in fullscreen mode (LP: #716695, #824788)
- Lost nebula images (LP: #1042393, #1051038)
- Bugs in Night Vision mode (LP: #578367)
- Bugs in GUI and Core (LP: #1090722, #1082510, #1071455, #1071458, #1056868, #1054600, #1045111, #1040944, #1077545)
- Crashes (LP: #1043640, #1044654, #1045783)
New in Stellarium 0.11.4 (Aug 27, 2012)
- Added:
- New plugin: Exoplanets
- New plugin: Observability analysis
- Get geometric altitude and azimuth for script engine (LP: #1010617)
- Sky image loading with altitude/azimuth coordinates (LP: #1023548)
- New hotkey for star name labels (LP: #1032989)
- Option to activate/deactivate the Nebula Background Images button via GUI (LP: #925247)
- Return to user set location and landscape (LP: #981507)
- Display degrees and minutes for FOV of CCD (LP: #998761)
- Adding all possible satellites (LP: #1006495)
- Building a Windows x64 packages (LP: #1003041, #1027607)
- Apply atmosphere effect only on bodies with atmosphere (LP: #971875)
- Fixed:
- Various Stellarium freezes and crashed (LP: #1005155, #1030913, #940638, #992267, #1033380, #951967, #1040054)
- Various plugins issues (LP: #751381, #892027, #1006134, #1040066, #1040085)
- Various issues for nebulae (LP: #1026021, #744517)
- Add/subtract one sidereal year jumps wrong amount (LP: #1006208)
- Various small issues, typos and mistakes (LP: #1022506, #1032469, #1019247, #985204)
- Various issues in Scripting Engine (LP: #1023934, #1017148, #1017154, #730180)
- Changed:
- New tab in the configuration window to control the selected object information.
- Improvement Night Vision mode
- Extend list of default scripts
New in Stellarium 0.11.3 (Aug 13, 2012)
- Added:
- ecliptic grid (LP: #834307)
- world observatories to the locations list (LP: #891643)
- allow configuration of url for SIMBAD lookups (LP: #948528)
- opportunity to freely choose the object information to display (LP: #834325)
- Pluto texture (LP: #906766)
- Fixed:
- No objects under horizon (LP: #952532)
- (MinGW-w64) CMake does not detect Win64 (LP: #951465)
- (MinGW-w64) Compilation errors (LP: #951405, #951742)
- Oculars FOV (LP: #971066, #962691)
- "Galactic Plane" string does not get translated when language is switched (LP: #976515)
- Use freedesktop specification for Unity quicklists (LP: #959893)
- Apparent diameter of planets with rings (LP: #960904)
- Crash [assert] when FOV is small and Quasars or Historical Supernovae plugins is enabled (LP: #961011)
- Angle Measure plug-in reads the wrong options from the configuration file (LP: #954205)
- Crash in debug mode on displaying constellation borders (LP: #951967)
- Star halo "dances" for small Solar System objects (LP: #805810)
- RTL-languages is not displayed correctly when using gravity labels (LP: #801668)
- Orbits with close perihelions are not displayed correctly (LP: #640455)
- Precision of angular diameter lower than intended (LP: #955635)
- Moons' orbit lines broken by parent planet movement with time (LP: #889712)
- Invalid user defined location cause Stellarium to crash (LP: #860220)
- Difficulty to select zoomed in planets and moons (LP: #854374)
- Altazimutal grid not overlapping equatorial grid when located on poles (LP: #775972)
- Global key bindings not global (LP: #687288)
- Screenshot write permission fail (Vista/7) (LP: #568086)
- Wrong planet phases as seen from more outer planets (LP: #803305)
- Zoom in/out command sticks (LP: #712112)
- Importing SSOs causes some strange effects (LP: #969211)
- Not updated values of dimensions of CCD while changes telescopes (LP: #998726)
- Gravity labels rendered incorrectly (LP: #998121)
- Keyboard shortcut for subtract one sidereal year don't works (LP: #997873)
New in Stellarium 0.11.3 RC 2 (May 11, 2012)
- Added:
- ecliptic grid (LP: #834307)
- world observatories to the locations list (LP: #891643)
- allow configuration of url for SIMBAD lookups (LP: #948528)
- opportunity to freely choose the object information to display (LP: #834325)
- Pluto texture (LP: #906766)
- Fixed:
- No objects under horizon (LP: #952532)
- (MinGW-w64) CMake does not detect Win64 (LP: #951465)
- (MinGW-w64) Compilation errors (LP: #951405, #951742)
- Oculars FOV (LP: #971066, #962691)
- "Galactic Plane" string does not get translated when language is switched (LP: #976515)
- Use freedesktop specification for Unity quicklists (LP: #959893)
- Apparent diameter of planets with rings (LP: #960904)
- Crash [assert] when FOV is small and Quasars or Historical Supernovae plugins is enabled (LP: #961011)
- Angle Measure plug-in reads the wrong options from the configuration file (LP: #954205)
- Crash in debug mode on displaying constellation borders (LP: #951967)
- Star halo "dances" for small Solar System objects (LP: #805810)
- RTL-languages is not displayed correctly when using gravity labels (LP: #801668)
- Orbits with close perihelions are not displayed correctly (LP: #640455)
- Precision of angular diameter lower than intended (LP: #955635)
- Moons' orbit lines broken by parent planet movement with time (LP: #889712)
- Invalid user defined location cause Stellarium to crash (LP: #860220)
- Difficulty to select zoomed in planets and moons (LP: #854374)
- Altazimutal grid not overlapping equatorial grid when located on poles (LP: #775972)
- Global key bindings not global (LP: #687288)
- Screenshot write permission fail (Vista/7) (LP: #568086)
- Wrong planet phases as seen from more outer planets (LP: #803305)
- Zoom in/out command sticks (LP: #712112)
- Importing SSOs causes some strange effects (LP: #969211)
New in Stellarium 0.11.2 (Mar 11, 2012)
- One of the main directions of this version is localization:
- most of the text used by the default plug-ins is now translatable
- landscape names are now translatable
- country names are now translatable
- scripts names and descriptions are now translatable
- Oculars plug-in:
- added an optional control panel displayed in the upper-right corner of the screen as an alternative to the pop-up menu that was used to control it in the previous version;
- overhaul of the pop-up menu, the underlined letters in it can be used as keyboard shortcuts;
- added the ability to rearrange the items in the lists of oculars, telescopes and sensors;
- fixed the inappropriate flipping of the binoculars view;
- Satellites plug-in:
- fixed title bar of the Satellites config window not being resized with the rest of the window (LP: #900575)
- catalog numbers are now used to identify satellites, preventing bugs with duplicate satellites and satellites renamed in the source lists
- catalog number and international designator are now displayed for each satellite
- a simple windows to add satellites has been added (LP: #898476)
- Added:
- Ctrl+C binding to copy selected object info text to clipboard.
- to the Windows installer options to remove files left over from the previous installation.
- windows no longer can be dragged to unreachable positions.
- the "Save settings" button now saves the current main window position, too.
- the language list is now sorted by language name, not language code.
- the "Reload style" action has been removed, as the underlying feature no longer works. If you decide to design a new visual style for Stellarium, please contact us to give you a version where it works.
- distance in km (if the distance is below 0.1 AU) to the information displayed about Solar System objects. (LP: #894472)
- the StelGui::getSkyGui() method to allow plug-in developers to create their own toolbars and other GUI elements.
- an option to show the galactic coordinates grid and the galactic plane.
- several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs): Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, Haumea.
- the Quasars plug-in.
- the Pulsars plug-in.
- more detailed information is now added to the log file for Mac OS X.
- (experimental) modelling of atmospheric extinction for point objects.
- changed the position of the text in the Text User Interface plug-in. (LP: #911594)
- a checkbox allowing the SIMBAD on-line search to be enabled/disabled.
- Fixed:
- startup script crash (LP: #689657)
- plugin names localization in the Configuration window (LP: #807402)
- resizing of the tabs in Configuration and View windows on language change (LP: #821386)
- sky lines' labels not translated on language change (LP: #811659)
- "Get catalog" button not translated on language change (LP: #890608)
- last star catalog not being offered for download (LP: #538291, LP: #890789)
- proxy configuration without username/password
- Telescope Control plug-in: mishandling of IP connections in the telescope configuration window (LP: #843837)
- Pluto's moon Hydra preventing the constellation from being selected in Search and scripts (LP: #894780)
- scripting code still being included despite ENABLE_SCRIPTING set to 0 (LP: #811505)
- constellations lines and names not displayed (LP: #945146)
- newly created location cannot be set as default (LP: #889931)
New in Stellarium 0.11.2 RC 1 (Feb 27, 2012)
- The main theme of this version seems to be localization:
- most of the text used by the default plug-ins is now translateable
- landscape names are now translatable
- country names are now translatable
- scripts names and descriptions are now translatable
- Oculars plug-in:
- added an optional control panel displayed in the upper-right corner of the screen as an alternative to the pop-up menu that was used to control it in the previous version;
- overhaul of the pop-up menu, the underlined letters in it can be used as keyboard shortcuts;
- added the ability to rearrange the items in the lists of oculars, telescopes and sensors;
- fixed the inappropriate flipping of the binoculars view;
- Satellites plug-in:
- fixed title bar of the Satellites config window not being resized with the rest of the window (LP: #900575)
- catalog numbers are now used to identify satellites, preventing bugs with duplicate satellites and satellites renamed in the source lists
- catalog number and international designator are now displayed for each satellite
- a simple windows to add satellites has been added (LP: #898476)
- Added Ctrl+C binding to copy selected object info text to clipboard.
- Added to the Windows installer options to remove files left over from the previous installation.
- Windows no longer can be dragged to unreachable positions.
- The "Save settings" button now saves the current main window position, too.
- The language list is now sorted by language name, not language code.
- The "Reload style" action has been removed, as the underlying feature no longer works. If you decide to design a new visual style for Stellarium, please contact us to give you a version where it works.
- Added distance in km (if the distance is below 0.1 AU) to the information displayed about Solar System objects. (LP: #894472)
- Added the StelGui::getSkyGui() method to allow plug-in developers to create their own toolbars and other GUI elements.
- Added an option to show the galactic coordinates grid and the galactic plane.
- Added several trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs): Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, Haumea.
- Added the Quasars plug-in.
- Added the Pulsars plug-in.
- More detailed information is now added to the log file for Mac OS X.
- Added (experimental) modelling of atmospheric extinction for point objects.
- Changed the position of the text in the Text User Interface plug-in. (LP: #911594)
- Added a checkbox allowing the SIMBAD on-line search to be enabled/disabled.
- Fixed:
- plugin names localization in the Configuration window (LP: #807402)
- resizing of the tabs in Configuration and View windows on language change (LP: #821386)
- sky lines' labels not translated on language change (LP: #811659)
- "Get catalog" button not translated on language change (LP: #890608)
- last star catalog not being offered for download (LP: #538291, LP: #890789)
- proxy configuration without username/password
- Telescope Control plug-in: mishandling of IP connections in the telescope configuration window (LP: #843837)
- Pluto's moon Hydra preventing the constellation from being selected in Search and scripts (LP: #894780)
- scripting code still being included despite ENABLE_SCRIPTING set to 0 (LP: #811505)
New in Stellarium 0.11.1 (Nov 4, 2011)
- Added:
- new skyculture: Arabic
- new moons and rings (LP: #815484, #834336)
- new translations for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #849292)
- possibility to observate geo-orbiting satellites (LP: #837274)
- new cities (LP: #856343, #860206)
- Fixed:
- misspelling on a star name (LP: #884795)
- location window: map pointer position is updated on longitude/latitude change.
- location window: fixed checking "Use as default" changing the name of the selected location to "New Location" (LP: #881613)
- Solar System Editor plug-in: a bug in the parsing of MPC lists: the epoch's Julian Day value was wrong by 0.5 JD (LP: #836839)
- Solar System Editor plug-in: crash while trying to browse for a local file (LP: #837396)
- Historical Supernovae plug-in: a bug in plug-in name (LP: #803157)
- Historical Supernovae plug-in: a bug in selected instead of nearby stars (LP: #835815)
- doesn't load localised description of skyculture/landscape if applanguage=system_default (LP: #845924)
- add/remove landscapes dialog bug in OSX 10.6.8 (LP: #812008)
- horizon line setting not saved (LP: #811945)
- orbital period totally wrong for Himalia (LP: #806174)
- flag_show_fps = false & flag_show_fov = flase (LP: #728294)
- 0.11.0 will crash if a landscape is selected with misspelled planet name (LP: #835422)
- crash on selecting off-Earth location in the Location window (LP: #834886)
- 0.11.0 crashes when switching language while location window is open (LP: #824936)
- 0.11.0 crashes when trying using custom distortion file (LP: #871313)
New in Stellarium 0.11.0 (Jul 19, 2011)
- Stellarium now takes into account the refraction of the atmosphere in the visualization of the sky so far, it seems, is the only planetarium simulates refraction in full.
- Redesigned search tool
- Oculars plugin rewritten & expanded. Includes binocular support, better CCD support.
- New plugin: Historical supernovae; now you can watch the flashes of bright 13 of these stars (in the calculation were taken only by those whose peak was brighter than 10m).
- Type of deep-sky objects on the "heaven" Stellarium's now possible to determine visually, without isolating the corresponding object.Increase in the number of satellites of the solar system planets.
- Were fixed annoying bugs in plug-ins and most of them acquired the improvements.By analogy with the description of the cultures of the sky began to speak in Russian and English of descriptions of landscapes.
- And, finally, has been fixed quite a few bugs in the Stellarium, including some from the list of "feature requests." There have also been a large number of bug fixes and some performance improvements.
- New users will find that some plugins have been enabled by default.
- Computers where an older version of Stellarium has been run will continue with the old settings unless defaults are reset.
- For Mac users, if you are running an Intel CPU, and OS X 10.5 or later, use the Intel binary. Otherwise use the Universal binary.
New in Stellarium 0.10.6 (Dec 6, 2010)
- New feature for installing landscapes from ZIP archives.
- New plugin: Solar System editor.
- New plugin: Time Zone manual override.
- Oculars plugin: customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Satellites plugin: added new orbit prediction engine w/ orbits.
- Satellites plugin: can now update TLEs from a local file.
- Telescope control plugin: added manual equinox/epoch override.
New in Stellarium 0.10.5 (Jun 2, 2010)
- This is an important bug fix release closing more than 30 bugs in the main application and in the plugins. It also brings small GUI useability improvements, as well as a much reduced starting time
New in Stellarium 0.10.1 (Feb 4, 2009)
- Added reset all config options button.
- Added code for uncompressing gzip files (borrowed from from libkde)
- Allowed for gzip compressed JSON files.
- Fixed flip buttons bug.
- Fixed min FPS feature.
- Implemented screenshots inverted colors feature + associated GUI.
- Re-coded grid display from scratch. It is now much faster and much more robust.
- Refactored large part of the Navigator and Projector classes. Added a StelPainter class allowing many optimizations and simpler API.
- Re-added telescope control key bindings.
- Improved the doxygen developers documentation.
- Added Simbad lookup to the search window.
- Fixed ecliptic line rendering.
- Fixed grid rendering bugs.
- Added ZIP archive support with code copied from KDE SVN.
- Fixed sun's magnitude bug.
- Added automatic star catalog downloader to GUI. Star catalog settings are now defined in a config file.
- Converted system-dependent star catalog memory mapping code to QFile::map().
- Added log file for debugging output. Prepends system specs, such as memory and CPU information.
- Imported KdeWin32 code for POSIX emulation on Windows.
- Fixed build with Qt 4.5.
- Fixed full screen problems at init.
- Optimized VecXX contructors (no more default values).
- Added translations for Albanian and Bosnian.
- Fixed many bugs.
New in Stellarium 0.10.0 (Sep 23, 2008)
- Global switch to Qt. Don't support SDL main application anymore.
- The whole StelApp class is managed by a QGraphicsScene, inside a QGraphicsView.
- Removed deprecated sources from the core of stellarium (old GUI, TUI and scripting).
- Continued API cleaning and simplifications.
- Performed large refactorings to use portable Qt API (migrated from std::string and std::wstring to QString).
- Re-organized the source files into sub-directories.
- Migrated config file parsing to a QSettings based implementation.
- Exposed some methods as slots so that they can be scripted in the future.
- Created the new Qt-based GUI button bars (QGraphicsItems).
- Recoded from scratch the new QWidget based GUI rendered in the QGraphicsView using style sheets.
- Moved stars/planets halo rendering into SkyDrawer.
- Implemented dynamic eye adaptation for bright objects.
- Optimized atmosphere computation and others, speed can be increased up to a factor of 2.
- Implemented light pollution following the Bortle scale index.
- Improved and optimized stars rendering (updated colors, sizes and added large halo for very bright ones, use GL lists for drawing stars by bunch)
- Made testing python wrappers using SIP (unused)
- Created a new SkyTile class supporting lazy dynamic multi-resolution images loading and display. Image trees can be stored as JSON files.
- Startup is much faster.
- Migrated the previous nebula textures to the new format.
- Added a LocationManager for managing observing locations and cleaned the code of observer.
- Changed key bindings, use F1.. F6 for opening dialogs.
- Tab completion on the search dialog.
- Added descriptions for the sky cultures and improved the ones for landscapes.
- Added a new mars landscape.
- Fixed many bugs.
New in Stellarium 0.9.1 (Jan 24, 2008)
- Got rid of autoconf/automake
- Fixed a grid RA labeling bug.
- Improved the plug-in managment.
- Fixed nebula names loading (bug #1740287)
- Recoded time methods based on Qt time function (this fixed bug #1740595, LANG=en_IN crash).
- Use the new Grid class by Guillaume Ch�reau for NebulaMgr.
- Made StelUI and StelCommandMgr real StelModules.
- Increased grid labeling brightness.
- Fixed splash screen flickering and logo image truncation in full screen mode.
- Fixed wrong nebula size (bug #1673142)
- Fixed constellation art intensity bug (bug #1733482)
- Got rid of all wstreamstring and therefore don't require STLPort anymore for MinGW compilation.
- Added more command line options.
- Re-coded StelAppQt4 init and deinit to prevent GLContext errors.
- New config parameters for controlling star brigthness, size, color
- Circles around telescope markers indicating ocular FOV
- Applied patches for bugs #1769632 (bad init in get_tm_from_Julian), #1769584 (NebulaMgr.cpp reports wrong name on error) and #1758435 (segfault)
- Fixed bug #1781617 (added altitude unit) and #1751366 (segfault when changing projection mode).
- StelModule now derive from QObject.
- First testing new script engine based on QObject slots.
- Recoded fully the texture manager now based on Qt signal/slots. It handles multithreading loading and downloading of images. As a direct result, loading time is divided by 2!
- Now use Qt4.3, and replaced CURL by QtNetwork.
- Fixed some date display bugs in config window.
- Added new translations for th ml he fil tl eo lt mk
- Added new sky culture, Tupi-Guarani from Brazil