Stellarium Changelog

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 23, 2023)

  • New plugin: Lens Distortion Estimator (experimental)
  • New sky culture: Tibetan Lunar Mansions
  • Changed GUI: ability to change the look via normalStyle.css
  • Added new MESA for Windows packages
  • Added support Windows/ARM64 packages
  • Added support the origins of nomenclature names
  • Improvements in plugins and AstroCalc tools
  • Improvements for performance on macOS/ARM64

New in Stellarium 23.3 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • The major changes of this version:
  • 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
  • Behind the scenes, many more minor issues were fixed.
  • TELESCOPE USERS:
  • We have identified and fixed some bugs in the TelescopeControl plugin on the Qt6-based releases.
  • Telescope users, please try whether this solves your problems.
  • If not, we are looking for those of you with programming skills to help us fixing remaining issues. Reward possible!
  • What's Changed
  • Full list of changes:
  • Added ability to define directory for observing lists (GH: #3165)
  • Added new plugin - "Missing Stars" (GH: #3399, #2998, #1907, #361, #116)
  • Added scriptable method and shortcut for toggle visibility the markers of selected objects
  • Added support smooth orbit lines (GH: #3371)
  • Added support drawing of orbits on open KeplerOrbits (GH: #3359)
  • Added patch to use qt.conf on windows via QtCreator (GH: #3345)
  • Added scalar versions of sRGB-linear conversions
  • Added option to add or exclude moon orbits for planets/selected objects (GH: #3348)
  • Added another option and StelApp method to allow storing config items immediately (GH: #3348)
  • Added new set of navigational stars: Soviet aviation
  • Added new set of navigational stars: Soviet/Russian manned space programs
  • Added new set of navigational stars: Vixen Starbook
  • Added new set of navigational stars: Argo Navis
  • Added new set of navigational stars: Orion Intelliscope
  • Added new set of navigational stars: Sky Commander
  • Added "is-waning" to planet info map
  • Added Skywatcher SynScan HC and Pro App alignment stars for Navigational Stars plugin (GH: #3327)
  • Added Meade Autostar 494/497 HC alignment stars for Navigational Stars plugin
  • Added set of navigational stars from Apollo space program for Navigational Stars plugin
  • Added show current location of object for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3289, #2937)
  • Added missing timezone (GH: #3316)
  • Added support transparency for landscapes (GH: #3293, #3214)
  • Added discovery circumstances for comet P/2023 M1
  • Added CLI option for logfile name
  • Fixed blending DSO hints (GH: #3302)
  • Fixed type for Interstellar objects in Solar System Editor plugin
  • Fixed bad performance in Mac M1 (GH: #2947)
  • Fixed crash in Telescope Control plugin for Qt6-based packages (GH: #2874, #2821)
  • Fixed background color for artwork (GH: #3299)
  • Fixed handling Stellarium' scripts on Macs
  • Fixed mistake in DSO catalog
  • Fixed a slow reaction with touchpad on Macs (GH: #2778)
  • Fixed missing translations
  • Fixed various typos (GH: #3411)
  • Fixed clarification on Spout in SUG (GH: #2922)
  • Fixed hiding splash when starting stellarium from a script (GH: #3407)
  • Fixed a logfile warning (GH: #3324)
  • Fixed location update with landscape in RemoteSync plugin (GH: #3274)
  • Fixed observing list import/export (GH: #3207, #3206)
  • Fixed error when downloading stars (GH: #3395)
  • Fixed link to supplemental TLE (default lists)
  • Fixed list of MSVC++ versions
  • Fixed moving to a NomenclatureItem location (GH: #3355)
  • Fixed the botched logic of storing details for the orbit drawing (GH: #1842, #3348)
  • Fixed overflow on bad implementations of tanh() (GH: #3351)
  • Fixed discrepancy between SUG and an Oculars tooltip (GH: #3346)
  • Fixed crash of Nav. Stars plugin (GH: #3341)
  • Fixed bug: avoid dereferencing null pointer
  • Fixed bug: prevent artifacts in limb darkening
  • Fixed computation of signed phase angle of a planet (GH: #3306)
  • Fixed the name of a uniform in a location query
  • Fixed FPS: restore minimizing fps when idle
  • Fixed crash Oculars plugin: Lens can potentially be a null pointer, so must not be dereferenced without a check (GH: #3322)
  • Fixed OpenSSL issue for Qt5-based packages for Windows (GH: #3321, #3326)
  • Fixed a DSO name confusion mentioned at Transifex
  • Fixed object search with HIP numbers
  • Fixed behavior of DitheringMode with QVariant in Qt5 (GH: #3307, #3304)
  • Fixed Qt5 build without PCH
  • Fixed restoration for default list of TLE source in Satellites plugin
  • Fixed handling Unicode in Telescope Control plugin (GH: #2934, #3301)
  • Fixed connection to a renamed signal in Telescope Control plugin
  • Fixed connections to renamed signals in RemoteSync plugin: this restores excluding features from synchronisation (GH: #3303)
  • Changed core: a tiny improvement for sorting data in Search Tool
  • Changed core: Reduce dumping cities for unknown timezones
  • Changed core: avoid recomputation of RTS at every frame (GH: #3275)
  • Changed core: preserve texture binding when rendering text (GH: #3356)
  • Changed core: improve text rendering quality (GH: #3353)
  • Changed core: show comets a bit less restrictively
  • Changed core: use optional "immediate save" for Nomenclature detail settings (GH: #3342)
  • Changed core: draw crater type NomenclatureItems (craters, Lunar maria, satellite features which AFAICS are always craters) as ellipse (GH: #3342)
  • Changed core: suppress forward scattering peak in the sky pseudo-reflection behind landscape
  • Changed core: reduce code duplication in xyYToRGB shader and updating the code
  • Changed core: enable stencil buffer in the main OpenGL surface format
  • Changed core: always use texture-based text rendering in StelPainter
  • Changed core: Turn dithering into a global post-processing effect (GH: #3335)
  • Changed core: Use GLSL 3.30 whenever OpenGL >= 3.3 is in use
  • Changed core: Move OpenGL 3.3 Core glfuncs() getter to StelOpenGL
  • Changed core: Explicitly choose texture unit in spherical mirror distorter
  • Changed core: Move InitFailure from AtmosphereShowMySky to the base class
  • Changed core: updated code for vector maths
  • Changed logger: cosmetic fixes for better reading the data
  • Changed NavStars plugin: simplifications
  • Changed RemoteSync plugin: Allow suppressing debug messages
  • Changed RemoteSync plugin: Allow finetuning of debug output
  • Changed RemoteSync plugin: Add useful diagnostic in case of problem
  • Changed Scenery3D plugin: changed logging type
  • Changed requirements: Qt 5.12 is minimal version now to building
  • Changes in Windows installer: using better compression algorithm
  • Updated SUG: Clarify that our J2000.0 coordinates include aberration. (GH: #3309)
  • Updated instructions for building planetarium from source code
  • Updated OnlineQueries plugin
  • Updated default list of satellites
  • Updated list of exoplanets
  • Updated discovery circumstances for minor planets
  • Updated comet discovery circumstances (GH: #3389)
  • Updated list of locations
  • Updated default settings for macOS bundle
  • Updated settings for doxygen (GH: #3390)
  • Updated plugins: Removed logically wrong code (unused by the fact)
  • Updated plugins: Switched to use static variables for sync visibility of stars labels
  • Updated Solar System Editor plugin
  • Updated ssystem_1000comets.ini file
  • Updated Espenak & Meeus DeltaT equation
  • Updated nomenclature data
  • Updated GUI: Disable dithering config GUI when dithering is not supported (GH: #3335)
  • Updated contact address in few sky cultures
  • Removed --fix-text option
  • Removed locales with translation progress lesser 1% per whole time
  • Removed outdated code for support the version of Qt prior 5.12
  • Removed fov options from RemoteSync plugin: is now StelMovementMgr.currentFov property (GH: #3303)

New in Stellarium 23.2 (Jul 2, 2023)

  • Vectorize marker of deep-sky objects.
  • Updated support locations.
  • Discovery circumstances for solar system objects.

New in Stellarium 23.1 (Mar 27, 2023)

  • Added missing include (GH: #2933)
  • Added ability to store a local file of objects as bookmark (GH: #2935)
  • Added missing file in Babylonian (Seleucid) SC
  • Added ability to show the alternative shortcuts in Help dialog (GH: #2944)
  • Added B-V color indices for planets and the Sun
  • Added B-V indices for few moons
  • Added ability to change the font size and color of the landscape labels from the GUI (GH: #2941)
  • Added ability to visualize heliocentric ecliptic distances for bright comets in AstroCalc/Positions/HEC tool
  • Added an option to use supersampling for shadows on the Moon
  • Added implementation of the limb darkening for the Sun (GH: #3017)
  • Added Methuselah star
  • Added support 32-wind compass rose (GH: #3036)
  • Added decorative textures for the observer used in the location panel
  • Added accurate ecliptic calendar marks (GH: #3057)
  • Added ability to settings fps in the GUI (GH: #3073)
  • Added a workaround for poor NPOT mipmap implementations
  • Added "Now" button into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3012)
  • Added discovery info for Messier objects (GH: #3084)
  • Added phase name and age to Moon's infoMap (GH: #3088)
  • Added a check for screenshot file format
  • Added proper name for Arp 239
  • Added proper name for PGC 1436754 from SIMBAD
  • Added support MIT license for sky cultures
  • Added GUI to manually entering FOV (GH: #3093, #3013)
  • Added ability to toggle ignore date test for orbital data in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #3099)
  • Added explicit text message for "satellite below horizon" (GH: #3098)
  • Added a confirmation warning to overwrite an existing list on import in Observing lists
  • Added support for masses of the major planets
  • Added masses for major planets
  • Fixed umbra circles in Satellites plugin (GH: #2510)
  • Fixed plotting markers of ephemerides (GH: #2951)
  • Fixed the performance penalty: enabled compression of high frequency events (GH: #2778)
  • Fixed off-by-one error in planetary rings mesh generator (GH: #2775)
  • Fixed compilation on Qt configured for OpenGL ES2 (GH: #2970)
  • Fixed bookmarks for minor planets in Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #2958)
  • Fixed the wrong transformation of the Moon's color texture values
  • Fixed solar eclipse rendering of the Moon in a better way
  • Fixed default distance of "observer" to the parent (GH: #2911)
  • Fixed handling of lighting factor when rendering lunar eclipse
  • Fixed AstroCalc/RTS tool (GH: #3028)
  • Fixed another missing timezone
  • Fixed location changes via Search panel and "Goto" Action
  • Fixed return to default location (with default landscape)
  • Fixed other place where location name is printed in bottom bar
  • Fixed pixelized panel icons in screenshots (GH: #2899)
  • Fixed a possible security issue
  • Fixed DSO filters (GH: #3048)
  • Fixed screenshot size
  • Fixed a potential security issue when storing screenshots
  • Fixed scaling of screen geometry when setting window position (GH: #3102)
  • Fixed limits for altitudes in Satellites plugin
  • Fixed working the filter in shortcut dialog for Qt5-based builds (GH: #2939)
  • Fixed storing DSO with designations in Observing lists (GH: #2802)
  • Fixed the type/objtype bug in Observing lists
  • Fixed creation of default empty list at start in Observing lists
  • Fixed behaviour for 'Reload the sky culture' feature
  • Fixed a crash when observer is on the spaceship (GH: #3115)
  • Changed GUI of Satellites plugin: disable a bad implementation of fixed shadow altitude (GH: #3100)
  • Changed GUI: better button labels
  • Changed core: set line and file numbers in shader prefixes
  • Changed core: make ring shadows smoother
  • Changed core: improve quality of planetary ring edges
  • Changed core: make sure that textures being loaded don't exceed OpenGL size limits (GH: #2991)
  • Changed core: avoid blowing out highlights on the lunar surface
  • Changed core: use a ratio of FoV and sphere scale when calculating brightness coefficient for the Moon
  • Changed core: allow more threads for texture loading
  • Changed core: do computations for the planets in linear color, convert to sRGB in the end
  • Changed core: move Lambert BRDF from vertex shader to fragment shader
  • Changed core: make terminator of planets with atmosphere not so sharp
  • Changed core: allow texture decimation (GH: #3009)
  • Changed core: simplify checking whether planet being drawn in Planet::draw3dModel is the Sun or the Moon
  • Changed core: simplify checking whether current location is Earth in Planet::draw3dModel
  • Changed core: draw solar corona before the sphere, regardless of halo settings
  • Changed core: make rot_obliquity=0 for all observers
  • Changed core: do the computation of lunar eclipse colors in nonlinear color (GH: #3035)
  • Changed core: enable mip mapping for old-style-landscape textures)
  • Changed core: switch old-style landscape to fragment-shader-based direction computation (GH: #3045)
  • Changed core: allow "goto" action to observers
  • Changed core: inhibit drawing of a few grids/markers when on Observer pseudo-planet
  • Changed core: inhibit location name if observing from Observer pseudo-planet
  • Changed core: inhibit landscape and atmosphere drawing when on an "observer" pseudo-planet
  • Changed core: make it possible to restrict texture size of GUI panel button pixmaps
  • Changed core: softened inner edge of earth penumbra slightly
  • Changed core: avoid creation of default user dir if CLI override given (GH: #3079)
  • Changed core: deprecated a redundant command line option)
  • Changed core: force redraw of dynamic resolution atmosphere on window resize
  • Changed core: use config settings screen_* in physical (unscaled) pixels (GH: #3077)
  • Changed core: render ShowMySky atmosphere calculating view direction per fragment
  • Changed core: tweak screen intersect callback (GH: #3059)
  • Changed core: disable culling for ZodiacalLight and MilkyWay
  • Changed core: ensure screenshot format initialisation sets supported format
  • Changed Satellites plugin: refactoring the code (simplification)
  • Changed Satellites plugin: reduced the minimal entered altitude for apogee/perigee filters (GH: #3004)
  • Changed Satellites plugin: switched to use WGS-84 data in whole Satellites plugin
  • Changed scripting engine: avoid empty filenames for screenshots (GH #3111)
  • Changed scripting engine: also make writing to absolute paths a GUI option (GH #3111)
  • Changed scripting engine: require user consent to let scripts store screenshots to paths given in the script (GH #3111)
  • Changed encoding format in Korean.isl (GH: #2992)
  • Updated GUI: losslessly recompress PNGs to save space (GH: #3087)
  • Updated orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
  • Updated default list of locations
  • Updated default catalog of satellites
  • Updated default catalog of exoplanets
  • Updated default catalog of pulsars
  • Updated qxlsx dependencies (GH: #2979)
  • Updated XML data: use generic-icon in mime file (GH: #3011)
  • Updated list of languages
  • Updated default bookmarks for Solar System Editor plugin
  • Updated translations of sceneries
  • Updated translations of landscapes
  • Updated translations of sky cultures
  • Removed the clamping kludge from the Oren-Nayar function
  • Removed NGC 5976A designation (GH: #2967)
  • Removed checking architectures in Windows installer (GH: #2962)

New in Stellarium 1.2 (Dec 25, 2022)

  • This release mostly aimed at fixing issues but also brought a few new features:
  • New projection: Equirectangular (fills the screen)
  • Improved rendering of Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and landscapes
  • Improved rendering of the Moon
  • Improved HiDPI behaviour
  • Use Noto as default font
  • Added Modern (IAU), Tikuna and Seri sky cultures
  • Added Chinese and Bahai calendars (Calendars plugin)

New in Stellarium 1.1.1 (Nov 1, 2022)

  • 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 1.22.3 (Oct 2, 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.
  • 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 16, 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
  • Added 2 startup shortcuts for linux distros
  • Added GUIs for tweaking some atmosphere parameters and better understand how these things work together
  • Added ability switching between Preetham and Schaefer for sky brightness (CIE Y channel)
  • Added ability switching between 2 presets of chromaticity parameters (Preetham/Stellarium)
  • Added ability coupling extinction coefficient and atmosphere turbidity
  • Added an exponential twilight transition to Preetham zenith luminance
  • Added a flag to suppress atmosphere scattering rendering. Just keeps atmosphere refraction and extinction effects
  • Added ability tweaking atmosphere: allow solar halo drawing before or after 3d solar sphere
  • Added ability tweaking atmosphere: allow rendering the Sun after the atmosphere (avoid overbrightening, but may look too dark)
  • Added GUI to fine-tune viewing environment (tone mapping)
  • Added scripting functions to modify tone mapping settings
  • Added color conversion to AdobeRGB (not only sRGB). This may give better screen colors on some systems.
  • Added ability moving StelDialogSeparate to a separate screen
  • Added human readable format for coordinates of planetary features
  • Added support decimal coordinates for planetary features
  • Added Akan (ak), Karelian (krl), Montenegrin (cnr) and Serbian (Latin) (sr@latin) languages support
  • Added Lunar Eclipses to Astronomical calculations
  • Added actions to centering screen on current telescope position
  • Added proper name for LBN 437
  • Added proper name for Stock 2 cluster
  • Added actions to quick choose of presets for the selected object information
  • Added Modified Espenak & Meeus (2006, 2022) solution for DeltaT
  • Added support alternative names (designations) for exoplanets
  • Added texture for an interesting distorted galaxy NGC 2146 in Camelopardalis
  • Added setting of screenshot dpi
  • Added New and Astronomical Hindu Calendars
  • Added Hindu Panchang
  • Added 60-year-cycle to Tibetan calendar
  • Added configurable text color
  • Added mistakenly removed parentheses to the regex
  • Added Egyptian (Dendera) sky culture
  • Added Zulu sky culture
  • Added 2 asterisms: Medium Bull & Minor Bull
  • Added Persian Astronomical calendar
  • Added nowruz to both Persian calendar versions
  • Added French Revolution Calendar (astronomical version)
  • Added Tibetan Calendar
  • Added functions from CC:UE chapter 14 on astronomical functions
  • Added proper name for CTB 1 (Abell 85) nebula
  • Added boundaries to Arabic Lunar Stations skycultute
  • Added support of seasonal polar caps on the Mars
  • Added Revised Julian Calendar into Calendars plugin
  • Added support heliocentric ecliptic positions of the major planets into AstroCalc/Positions tool
  • Added Solar Eclipses to Astronomical calculations
  • Added missing timezone for Nuuk
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fixed entering geographical coordinates
  • Fixed crash on exit when Telescopes tab of Oculars is active
  • Fixed bug in Meteor showers search dialog
  • 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
  • Fixed decimal longitude in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool
  • Fixed coordinates of few open clusters (DSO Catalog v3.14)
  • Fixed crash on start when Calendars plugin not loaded.
  • Fixed parsing of decimal degrees in AngleSpinBox::stringToDouble()
  • Fixed light pollution node in TUI
  • Fixed StelLocationMgr.cpp:parseAngle for negative fractional-degree angles
  • Fixed reading location from CLI
  • Fixed planetocentric rectangular coordinates
  • Fixed R&D solution of DeltaT
  • Fixed galactic and supergalactic longitudes range in Scripting Engine
  • Fixed bug in the Hebrew calendar
  • Fixed errors in Arabic sky cultures
  • Fixed computation of rise, transit and set times for the Moon
  • Fixed alignment for headers in tables
  • Fixed security issues: updated jQuery and jQuery UI
  • Fixed bug in AstroCalc/Eclipses where type of local solar eclipses are incorrect
  • Fixed wrong range of galactic and supergalactic coordinate systems
  • Changed the languages support: refactoring the code for ISO-639 codes support
  • Changed the core: refactoring the code for get angular size of objects
  • Changed the GUI: compactification of the GUI
  • Changed AstroCalc/Transits tool: The AstroCalc/Transits tool has been converted to AstroCalc/RTS tool, where RTS is meaning "rises, transits and sets"
  • Changed regexp in the comets data parser
  • Changed core: pass Sun, Moon and current planet objects as well as location directly to Atmosphere::computeColor
  • Changed core: enable multisampling for landscape too
  • Changed core: switch from Bortle class to luminance as the quantity of light pollution
  • Updated Arabic sky cultures: renaming sky cultures
  • 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
  • Updated core: refactor qflags
  • Updated GUI: Improve usability of light pollution display in landscape description
  • Updated GUI: Prevent negative length of day
  • Updated labels in Calendars plugin
  • Updated defaults for Calendars plugin
  • Updated Scenery3D plugin: Extend shadowmap/cubemap resolution options
  • Updated list of proper names
  • Updated order of star designations
  • Updated shape of asterism "Taurus Poniatovii"
  • Updated locations database, nomenclature and common names for DSO
  • Updated build instruction
  • Updated GUI for AstroCalc/Eclipses tool: allow years before 1582
  • Removed default GRS solution
  • Removed radio frequencies from getInfoMap() method

New in Stellarium 0.21.3 (Dec 25, 2021)

  • Full list of changes:
  • 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 27, 2021)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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 27, 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 (Jun 23, 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 (Apr 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 (Mar 29, 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 distanceslightly improves rendering of Saturn viewed from Pan (GH#435)
  • Added a GimbalOrbit for the “Observer” planetsallows 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 WesternRey 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 highlightsfool 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 selectedadjust time resetting for planet proper motion display (GH#1006)
  • Fixed GUI issueswitch 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 pluginchanged 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 pluginthe 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 behaviourwhen 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 classcombined 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 tabdefine new ProperMotion InfoStringGroup flag, and adapt GUI, settings and StarWrapper (GH#957)
  • Updated InfoStringimproved 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 infoRestore/sanitize handling of named moon phases (GH#950)
  • Updated trails behaviourwhen planet is changed the trails should be recreated
  • Updated trails behaviourinclude moons of current planet into planet trails
  • Updated trails behaviourallow 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 namessynced few names from SIMBAD
  • Updated the pulsars catalog and tool for generate of JSON catalog from the original data (GH#989)
  • Updated SSDsynced 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 0.19.3.1 (Dec 24, 2019)

  • Full list of changes:
  • 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 0.19.3 (Dec 22, 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 29, 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 22, 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 0.19.0 (Mar 25, 2019)

  • Added new type of computation for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
  • Added GUI options to change constellations and asterisms font size (GH: #576)
  • Added new source to star names and added new additional name to kappa Scorpii
  • Added tool to detect Intel C/C++ compiler in our Logger
  • Added new method into ConstellationMgr class - getConstellationsEnglishNames() to get English names of all constellations in the selected sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added new one script 'Constellations Tour' to organize the tour around constellations of the loaded sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added constellation boundaries for Chinese Skyculture (GH: #584)
  • Added more values to correctly detect MSVC version
  • Added few scriptable methods into HighlightMgr class to manage highlight points
  • Added translation support for strings within scripts
  • Added Chinese medieval sky culture (GH: #604)
  • Added Alipurduar town (West Bengal; India) to the default locations list (GH: #606)
  • Added extra check-point for data directory in the StelFileMgr class
  • Added DSO textures
  • Added sensor crop overlay to Ocular plugin (GH: #612)
  • Added tool for allow filetype selection for Screenshots (GH: #623)
  • Added core.getPlatformName() and core.isMediaPlaybackSupported() methods into scripting engine
  • Added scripting function isModuleLoaded()
  • Added graph "Transit altitude vs Time" into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
  • Added small simplification to scripting through adding master switch by types for grids, lines and points on the sky [Scripting Engine]
  • Added showing labels for named highlights (GH: #638)
  • Added allow setting location of User Data Dir via environment variable.
  • Added scripting graphics tool [Scripting Engine] (GH: #640)
  • Added LMC and SMC as addition names for Magellanic Clouds
  • Added classifications support for sky cultures
  • Added support 2 southern deep sky catalogues (NGC subset; esp. for southern observers)
  • Added armintxe, paleolithic sky culture and landscape (GH: #628)
  • Added demo script for martian analemma [Scripting Engine]
  • Added support sols for setDate() method [Scripting Engine]
  • Added code, who indicate to hybrid graphics systems to prefer the discrete part by default (GH: #649)
  • Added support for constellation boundaries thickness (GH: #653)
  • Added Maya constellations (GH: #635)
  • Added 2 Babylonian skycultures (GH: #647)
  • Added display of used (terrestrial) timezone for observation from extraterrestrial locations
  • Added special case for Satellites plugin: use texture for draw the crossing of the ISS of the Moon or the Sun
  • Added nightly illumination plus basic description for armintxe landscape
  • Fixed Ependes Observatory location (GH: #581)
  • Fixed scaling the distance in AstroCalc
  • Fixed naming the stars in AstroCalc tool when non-western skyculture is enabled (GH: #577)
  • Fixed sorting of column Distance in Astronomical Calculations' Ephemeris tab (GH: #579)
  • Fixed wrong calculation the FOV of CCD in Oculars plugin
  • Fixed compile Stellarium without media features
  • Fixed behaviour of script (The old script 'Constellations Tour' was renamed to the 'Western Constellations Tour' and updated) [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed documents for core.clear() method [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed unit tests failure on Windows and some linuxes (GH: #586, #587, #588)
  • Fixed the user interface problems for lenses in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
  • Fixed copyright years in CREDITS.md file
  • Fixed checker in the StelFileMgr class (GH: #589)
  • Fixed macOS User Data Directory in documentation (GH: #593)
  • Fixed bug report address for .desktop translations
  • Fixed a typo in Scenery3D plugin (GH: #600)
  • Fixed selecting LMST, LTST and system_default timezone names
  • Fixed math error in StelHips (GH: #599)
  • Fixed a potential memory leak in libtess (GH: #598)
  • Fixed error for ephemeris calculations time window (GH: #605)
  • Fixed description data for textures.json
  • Fixed missed translatable strings in StelSkyCultureMgr class
  • Fixed CWE-404 issues
  • Fixed crash when script tried delete already deleted labels (GH: #625)
  • Fixed zooming behaviour
  • Fixed time zone issue in AstroCalc/WUT tool
  • Fixed DSO texture overlay issue (GH: #655)
  • Fixed FTBFS issue on some linux systems
  • Fixed bad behaviour time zones in the location panel (GH: #602)
  • Fixed crash when selecting certain dates in 1 AD for some time zones on Windows (GH: #594)
  • Fixed default limits for graph "Transit altitude vs Time"
  • Fixed translation the "Armintxe Cave" string (GH: #657)
  • Fixed airmass calculation for deep-sky objects
  • Changed default constellations font size
  • Changed HiPS behaviour: don't show tile if it is hidden by children
  • Changed behaviour of version checker: introduced the additional check for latest version
  • Changed behaviour of the BottomStelBar::updateText() method (GH: #596)
  • Updated Reingold and Dershowitz algorithm of DeltaT (New algorithm was taken from the Calendrical Calculations: The Ultimate Edition book)
  • Updated cmake rules for ICC/ICPC support (Intel C/C++ compilers)
  • Updated GUI in Oculars plugin
  • Updated Stellarium User Guide
  • Updated technical documentation
  • Updated Amalthea texture
  • Updated scripts (added i18n support)
  • Updated scripting API: added format specification for screenshots. (GH: #623)
  • Updated the code (thanks for PVS-Studio to the finding an issues)
  • Updated DSO textures
  • Updated textures of LMC (GH: #632)
  • Updated nomenclature
  • Updated jquery and jquery-ui in Remote Control plugin (GH: #620, #621)
  • Updated scripting engine: MilkyWay saturation scriptable now
  • Updated scripting engine: expanding the core.clear() method
  • Updated Satellites plugin: harmonized function name, added a property [Scripting Engine].
  • Updated KoreanCM.isl file - typofixes (GH: #639)
  • Updated RemoteSync plugin: suppress unsuitable properties (GH: #642)
  • Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool: optimizations
  • Updated AstroCalc/Positions tool: optimizations
  • Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: optimizations
  • Updated contact info for plugins
  • Updated Sterngarten model description
  • Updated behaviour of the options on Starlore tab
  • Updated list of extraterrestrial locations
  • Updated time zones behaviour: make custom time zone use a full property of StelCore
  • Updated time zones behaviour: preserve custom timezone setting
  • Updated LocationDialog behaviour: Return to default location resets location list.
  • Removed a long time abandoned incomplete LogBook plugin
  • Remove old deprecated methods in scripting engine
  • Remove languages without translators and with translations lesser than 1%

New in Stellarium 0.18.3.16791 Beta (Mar 20, 2019)

  • Added LMC and SMC as addition names for Magellanic Clouds
  • Added classifications support for sky cultures
  • Added support 2 southern deep sky catalogues (NGC subset; esp. for southern observers)
  • Added armintxe, paleolithic sky culture and landscape (GH: #628)
  • Added demo script for martian analemma [Scripting Engine]
  • Added support sols for setDate() method [Scripting Engine]
  • Added code, who indicate to hybrid graphics systems to prefer the discrete part by default (GH: #649)
  • Added support for constellation boundaries thickness (GH: #653)
  • Added Maya constellations (GH: #635)
  • Added 2 Babylonian skycultures (GH: #647)
  • Fixed time zone issue in AstroCalc/WUT tool
  • Fixed DSO texture overlay issue (GH: #655)
  • Fixed FTBFS issue on some linux systems
  • Changed default constellations font size
  • Changed HiPS behaviour: don't show tile if it is hidden by children
  • Changed behaviour of version checker: introduced the additional check for latest version
  • Changed behaviour of the BottomStelBar::updateText() method (GH: #596)
  • Updated Reingold and Dershowitz algorithm of DeltaT (New algorithm was taken from the Calendrical Calculations: The Ultimate Edition book)
  • Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: optimizations
  • Updated contact info for plugins
  • Updated Sterngarten model description
  • Remove languages without translators and with translations lesser than 1%

New in Stellarium 0.18.3.16721 Beta (Mar 3, 2019)

  • Added new type of computation for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
  • Added GUI options to change constellations and asterisms font size (GH: #576)
  • Added new source to star names and added new additional name to kappa Scorpii
  • Added tool to detect Intel C/C++ compiler in our Logger
  • Added new method into ConstellationMgr class - getConstellationsEnglishNames() to get English names of all constellations in the selected sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added new one script 'Constellations Tour' to organize the tour around constellations of the loaded sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added constellation boundaries for Chinese Skyculture (GH: #584)
  • Added more values to correctly detect MSVC version
  • Added few scriptable methods into HighlightMgr class to manage highlight points
  • Added translation support for strings within scripts
  • Added Chinese medieval sky culture (GH: #604)
  • Added Alipurduar town (West Bengal; India) to the default locations list (GH: #606)
  • Added extra check-point for data directory in the StelFileMgr class
  • Added DSO textures
  • Added sensor crop overlay to Ocular plugin (GH: #612)
  • Added tool for allow filetype selection for Screenshots (GH: #623)
  • Added core.getPlatformName() and core.isMediaPlaybackSupported() methods into scripting engine
  • Added scripting function isModuleLoaded()
  • Added graph "Transit altitude vs Time" into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
  • Added small simplification to scripting through adding master switch by types for grids, lines and points on the sky [Scripting Engine]
  • Added showing labels for named highlights (GH: #638)
  • Added allow setting location of User Data Dir via environment variable.
  • Added scripting graphics tool [Scripting Engine] (GH: #640)
  • Fixed Ependes Observatory location (GH: #581)
  • Fixed scaling the distance in AstroCalc
  • Fixed naming the stars in AstroCalc tool when non-western skyculture is enabled (GH: #577)
  • Fixed sorting of column Distance in Astronomical Calculations' Ephemeris tab (GH: #579)
  • Fixed wrong calculation the FOV of CCD in Oculars plugin
  • Fixed compile Stellarium without media features
  • Fixed behaviour of script (The old script 'Constellations Tour' was renamed to the 'Western Constellations Tour' and updated) [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed documents for core.clear() method [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed unit tests failure on Windows and some linuxes (GH: #586, #587, #588)
  • Fixed the user interface problems for lenses in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
  • Fixed copyright years in CREDITS.md file
  • Fixed checker in the StelFileMgr class (GH: #589)
  • Fixed macOS User Data Directory in documentation (GH: #593)
  • Fixed bug report address for .desktop translations
  • Fixed a typo in Scenery3D plugin (GH: #600)
  • Fixed selecting LMST, LTST and system_default timezone names
  • Fixed math error in StelHips (GH: #599)
  • Fixed a potential memory leak in libtess (GH: #598)
  • Fixed error for ephemeris calculations time window (GH: #605)
  • Fixed description data for textures.json
  • Fixed missed translatable strings in StelSkyCultureMgr class
  • Fixed CWE-404 issues
  • Fixed crash when script tried delete already deleted labels (GH: #625)
  • Fixed zooming behaviour
  • Changed default constellations font size
  • Changed HiPS behaviour: don't show tile if it is hidden by children
  • Changed behaviour of version checker: introduced the additional check for latest version
  • Changed behaviour of the BottomStelBar::updateText() method (GH: #596)
  • Updated Reingold and Dershowitz algorithm of DeltaT (New algorithm was taken from the Calendrical Calculations: The Ultimate Edition book)
  • Updated cmake rules for ICC/ICPC support (Intel C/C++ compilers)
  • Updated GUI in Oculars plugin
  • Updated Stellarium User Guide
  • Updated technical documentation
  • Updated Amalthea texture
  • Updated scripts (added i18n support)
  • Updated scripting API: added format specification for screenshots. (GH: #623)
  • Updated the code (thanks for PVS-Studio to the finding an issues)
  • Updated DSO textures
  • Updated textures of LMC (GH: #632)
  • Updated nomenclature
  • Updated jquery and jquery-ui in Remote Control plugin (GH: #620, #621)
  • Updated scripting engine: MilkyWay saturation scriptable now
  • Updated scripting engine: expanding the core.clear() method
  • Updated Satellites plugin: harmonized function name, added a property [Scripting Engine].
  • Updated KoreanCM.isl file - typofixes (GH: #639)
  • Updated RemoteSync plugin: suppress unsuitable properties (GH: #642)
  • Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool: optimizations
  • Updated AstroCalc/Positions tool: optimizations
  • Removed a long time abandoned incomplete LogBook plugin
  • Remove old deprecated methods in scripting engine

New in Stellarium 0.18.3 / 0.18.3.16630 Beta (Feb 17, 2019)

  • Added new type of computation for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
  • Added GUI options to change constellations and asterisms font size (GH: #576)
  • Added new source to star names and added new additional name to kappa Scorpii
  • Added tool to detect Intel C/C++ compiler in our Logger
  • Added new method into ConstellationMgr class - getConstellationsEnglishNames() to get English names of all constellations in the selected sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added new one script 'Constellations Tour' to organize the tour around constellations of the loaded sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added constellation boundaries for Chinese Skyculture (GH: #584)
  • Added more values to correctly detect MSVC version
  • Added few scriptable methods into HighlightMgr class to manage highlight points
  • Added translation support for strings within scripts
  • Added Chinese medieval sky culture (GH: #604)
  • Added Alipurduar town (West Bengal; India) to the default locations list (GH: #606)
  • Added extra check-point for data directory in the StelFileMgr class
  • Added DSO textures
  • Added sensor crop overlay to Ocular plugin (GH: #612)
  • Added tool for allow filetype selection for Screenshots (GH: #623)
  • Fixed Ependes Observatory location (GH: #581)
  • Fixed scaling the distance in AstroCalc
  • Fixed naming the stars in AstroCalc tool when non-western skyculture is enabled (GH: #577)
  • Fixed sorting of column Distance in Astronomical Calculations' Ephemeris tab (GH: #579)
  • Fixed wrong calculation the FOV of CCD in Oculars plugin
  • Fixed compile Stellarium without media features
  • Fixed behaviour of script (The old script 'Constellations Tour' was renamed to the 'Western Constellations Tour' and updated) [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed documents for core.clear() method [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed unit tests failure on Windows and some linuxes (GH: #586, #587, #588)
  • Fixed the user interface problems for lenses in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
  • Fixed copyright years in CREDITS.md file
  • Fixed checker in the StelFileMgr class (GH: #589)
  • Fixed macOS User Data Directory in documentation (GH: #593)
  • Fixed bug report address for .desktop translations
  • Fixed a typo in Scenery3D plugin (GH: #600)
  • Fixed selecting LMST, LTST and system_default timezone names
  • Fixed math error in StelHips (GH: #599)
  • Fixed a potential memory leak in libtess (GH: #598)
  • Fixed error for ephemeris calculations time window (GH: #605)
  • Fixed description data for textures.json
  • Fixed missed translatable strings in StelSkyCultureMgr class
  • Fixed CWE-404 issues
  • Fixed crash when script tried delete already deleted labels (GH: #625)
  • Changed default constellations font size
  • Changed HiPS behaviour: don't show tile if it is hidden by children
  • Changed behaviour of version checker: introduced the additional check for latest version
  • Changed behaviour of the BottomStelBar::updateText() method (GH: #596)
  • Updated Reingold and Dershowitz algorithm of DeltaT (New algorithm was taken from the Calendrical Calculations: The Ultimate Edition book)
  • Updated cmake rules for ICC/ICPC support (Intel C/C++ compilers)
  • Updated GUI in Oculars plugin
  • Updated Stellarium User Guide
  • Updated technical documentation
  • Updated Amalthea texture
  • Updated scripts (added i18n support)
  • Updated scripting API: added format specification for screenshots. (GH: #623)
  • Updated the code (thanks for PVS-Studio to the finding an issues)
  • Updated DSO textures

New in Stellarium 0.18.3.16579 Beta (Feb 11, 2019)

  • Added new type of computation for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
  • Added GUI options to change constellations and asterisms font size (GH: #576)
  • Added new source to star names and added new additional name to kappa Scorpii
  • Added tool to detect Intel C/C++ compiler in our Logger
  • Added new method into ConstellationMgr class - getConstellationsEnglishNames() to get English names of all constellations in the selected sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added new one script 'Constellations Tour' to organize the tour around constellations of the loaded sky culture [Scripting Engine]
  • Added constellation boundaries for Chinese Skyculture (GH: #584)
  • Added more values to correctly detect MSVC version
  • Added few scriptable methods into HighlightMgr class to manage highlight points
  • Added translation support for strings within scripts
  • Added Chinese medieval sky culture (GH: #604)
  • Added Alipurduar town (West Bengal; India) to the default locations list (GH: #606)
  • Added extra check-point for data directory in the StelFileMgr class
  • Added DSO textures
  • Added sensor crop overlay to Ocular plugin (GH: #612)
  • Fixed Ependes Observatory location (GH: #581)
  • Fixed scaling the distance in AstroCalc
  • Fixed naming the stars in AstroCalc tool when non-western skyculture is enabled (GH: #577)
  • Fixed sorting of column Distance in Astronomical Calculations' Ephemeris tab (GH: #579)
  • Fixed wrong calculation the FOV of CCD in Oculars plugin
  • Fixed compile Stellarium without media features
  • Fixed behaviour of script (The old script 'Constellations Tour' was renamed to the 'Western Constellations Tour' and updated) [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed documents for core.clear() method [Scripting Engine]
  • Fixed unit tests failure on Windows and some linuxes (GH: #586, #587, #588)
  • Fixed the user interface problems for lenses in Oculars plug-in (GH: #580)
  • Fixed copyright years in CREDITS.md file
  • Fixed checker in the StelFileMgr class (GH: #589)
  • Fixed macOS User Data Directory in documentation (GH: #593)
  • Fixed bug report address for .desktop translations
  • Fixed a typo in Scenery3D plugin (GH: #600)
  • Fixed selecting LMST, LTST and system_default timezone names
  • Fixed math error in StelHips (GH: #599)
  • Fixed a potential memory leak in libtess (GH: #598)
  • Fixed error for ephemeris calculations time window (GH: #605)
  • Fixed description data for textures.json
  • Changed default constellations font size
  • Changed HiPS behaviour: don't show tile if it is hidden by children
  • Changed behaviour of version checker: introduced the additional check for latest version
  • Changed behaviour of the BottomStelBar::updateText() method (GH: #596)
  • Updated cmake rules for ICC/ICPC support (Intel C/C++ compilers)
  • Updated GUI in Oculars plugin
  • Updated Stellarium User Guide
  • Updated technical documentation
  • Updated Amalthea texture
  • Updated scripts (added i18n support)
  • Updated the code (thanks for PVS-Studio to the finding an issues)
  • Updated DSO textures

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.16412 Beta (Nov 26, 2018)

  • Added names of potential interesting asteroids according to Wikipedia
  • Added change saturation of Milky Way when eyepiece simulation is enabled
  • Added precisions to saturation shader (GH: #261)
  • Added Northern Andes skyculture (GH: #267)
  • Added tool for checking updates of planetarium
  • Added the support of kinetic scrolling for lists and long texts for all operating systems (disabled by default)
  • Added support angular size filter for AstroCalc/WUT tool (if applicable)
  • Added satellite color & description handling (GH: #350, #380)
  • Added new graph into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
  • Added airmass info to infostring and infomap (GH: #157)
  • Added workaround for a spherical mirror mode bug (GH: #252)
  • Added angular separation filter for double stars in AstroCalc/WUT tool
  • Added highlights support (see Bookmarks tool; GH: #272)
  • Added Chinese translation for landscape description (GH: #493)
  • Added tooltip for 'Prism/CCD distance (mm)' option
  • Added a SphericalCap to close off Spherical Landscapes
  • Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #503)
  • Added tool for reaload the DSO background images (shortcut: Ctrl+I)
  • Added tool for reloading the current sky culture (shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+I)
  • Added pack of DSO textures
  • Added timezone loading for landscapes
  • Added Nereid texture
  • Added new method core.selectConstellationByName() to avoid possible wrong selection when few objects has same name (enforcement selection of constellation; GH: #490)
  • Added alphabetical sorting the list of surveys (GH: #506)
  • Added Chinese Contemporary Skyculture (GH: #508)
  • Added 2 new tweakable buttons for asterisms
  • Added 4 new tweakable buttons for GUI
  • Added Interstellar Object type and elements of 1I/Oumuamua
  • Added new nomenclature for Mercury
  • Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #540)
  • Added display of the antisolar point (GH: #536)
  • Added a good default list of instruments into Oculars plugin (GH: #409)
  • Added kinetic scrolling to switch on the fly (GH: #519)
  • Added option to select font and size (GH: #424)
  • Added workaround for grouped onscreen Information of selected object issue (GH: #523)
  • Added a tour of the Solar System planets
  • Added phase angle info for the artificial satellites
  • Fixed small issue with untranslatable items of drop-down list of HiPS surveys
  • Fixed saving telescope settings on Mac OS X (GH: #254)
  • Fixed the terms in columns in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
  • Fixed switching of locale for dates on graphs in AstroCalc tool when language is changed
  • Fixed bug when downloading extra stars catalogues (GH: #260)
  • Fixed saving value of option "Scale image circle" in Oculars plugin (GH: #264)
  • Fixed resetting results when clear button is pressed in Satellites plugin (GH: #265)
  • Fixed annoying warning in Search Tool
  • Fixed missing config option for rise, set and transit times in GUI
  • Fixed possible crash in AstroCalc/PC tool
  • Fixed adding unnamed stars into bookmarks
  • Fixed fragment shader for planets
  • Fixed uninitialized vars in HelpDialog (Coverity issue)
  • Fixed documentation for for StelObject::getInfoMap()
  • Fixed spheric mirror support on retina displays (GH: #390)
  • Fixed link to the Stellarium User Guide
  • Fixed link to Hawaiian Star Compass Landscape in Hawaiian Starlines (GH: #384)
  • Fixed the performance for AstroCalc tool (GH: #379)
  • Fixed lunar eclipse visualization (GH: #274)
  • Fixed bookmarking for the unnamed stars
  • Fixed Chinese sky culture (GH: #489)
  • Fixed a bug for Chinese skyulture. (GH: #504)
  • Fixed storing the view direction/FoV separately from other settings (GH: #309)
  • Fixed typo in stellarium.desktop (GH: #507)
  • Fixed typo in property setting (Cardinal direction color)
  • Fixed storing of mount mode (conflict in Oculars plugin; GH: #505)
  • Fixed the orientation of M58 texture (GH: #514)
  • Fixed PNG warnings
  • Fixed bad airmass infostring (GH: #525).
  • Fixed button state
  • Fixed the text overlap issue in Observability plugin (GH: #517)
  • Fixed the placement issue of the cross in Pointer Coordinates (GH: #516)
  • Fixed border handling for a DeltaT formula
  • Fixed build with --as-needed (GH: #545)
  • Updated GUI of AstroCalc tool (AstroCalc/AltVsTime, AstroCalc/ME and AstroCalc/Graphs tools has been merged into AstroCalc/Graphs)
  • Updated GUI of AstroCalc tool (visual style has been updated)
  • Updated GUI behaviour: let's hide angular limits for AstroCalc/WUT when the limits are not applicable
  • Updated GUI behaviour: split GUI font size from screen font size
  • Updated GUI behaviour: move color buttons to the left of labels
  • Updated visual style of diagram in Exoplanets plugin
  • Updated code of Satellites plugin
  • Updated names of DSO
  • Updated textures of DSO
  • Updated textures of moons
  • Updated nomenclature
  • Updated documents
  • Updated Oculars plugin: immediate update of display when changing instrument details in GUI.
  • Updated Oculars plugin: separate font scaling for the Oculars GUI panel.
  • Updated Oculars plugin: storing of current instrument (telescope/ocular/CCD/lens) indices
  • Updated RemoteControl plugin: change return types in JSON object info from string-only to native.
  • Updated getInfoString code: separate getMagnitudeInfoString to avoid code repetition.
  • Updated tooltips and labels for AstroCalc/WUT tool
  • Updated default select priority for custom objects and markers (GH: #501)
  • Updated behaviour: the select priority of custom objects and markers now configurable and scriptable
  • Updated behaviour: improved timezone handling, allows scriptable setting (GH: #497)
  • Updated default catalog of exoplanets
  • Updated default catalog of pulsars
  • Updated ArchaeoLines plugin (code refactoring)
  • Updated color setting (code refactoring)
  • Updated behaviour of lists in the AstroCalc/Graphs/Graphs tool (GH: #520)
  • Updated tool for create the exoplanets catalog
  • Obsolete code in core has been removed
  • Removed outdated link (GH: #526)
  • Removed doubled parenting code in GUI classes

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.16394 Beta (Nov 11, 2018)

  • Added names of potential interesting asteroids according to Wikipedia
  • Added change saturation of Milky Way when eyepiece simulation is enabled
  • Added precisions to saturation shader (GH: #261)
  • Added Northern Andes skyculture (GH: #267)
  • Added tool for checking updates of planetarium
  • Added the support of kinetic scrolling for lists and long texts for all operating systems (disabled by default)
  • Added support angular size filter for AstroCalc/WUT tool (if applicable)
  • Added satellite color & description handling (GH: #350, #380)
  • Added new graph into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
  • Added airmass info to infostring and infomap (GH: #157)
  • Added workaround for a spherical mirror mode bug (GH: #252)
  • Added angular separation filter for double stars in AstroCalc/WUT tool
  • Added highlights support (see Bookmarks tool; GH: #272)
  • Added Chinese translation for landscape description (GH: #493)
  • Added tooltip for 'Prism/CCD distance (mm)' option
  • Added a SphericalCap to close off Spherical Landscapes
  • Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #503)
  • Added tool for reaload the DSO background images (shortcut: Ctrl+I)
  • Added tool for reloading the current sky culture (shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+I)
  • Added pack of DSO textures
  • Added timezone loading for landscapes
  • Added Nereid texture
  • Added new method core.selectConstellationByName() to avoid possible wrong selection when few objects has same name (enforcement selection of constellation; GH: #490)
  • Added alphabetical sorting the list of surveys (GH: #506)
  • Added Chinese Contemporary Skyculture (GH: #508)
  • Added 2 new tweakable buttons for asterisms
  • Added 4 new tweakable buttons for GUI
  • Added Interstellar Object type and elements of 1I/Oumuamua
  • Added new nomenclature for Mercury
  • Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #540)
  • Added display of the antisolar point (GH: #536)
  • Added a good default list of instruments into Oculars plugin (GH: #409)
  • Added kinetic scrolling to switch on the fly (GH: #519)
  • Added option to select font and size (GH: #424)
  • Added workaround for grouped onscreen Information of selected object issue (GH: #523)
  • Fixed small issue with untranslatable items of drop-down list of HiPS surveys
  • Fixed saving telescope settings on Mac OS X (GH: #254)
  • Fixed the terms in columns in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
  • Fixed switching of locale for dates on graphs in AstroCalc tool when language is changed
  • Fixed bug when downloading extra stars catalogues (GH: #260)
  • Fixed saving value of option "Scale image circle" in Oculars plugin (GH: #264)
  • Fixed resetting results when clear button is pressed in Satellites plugin (GH: #265)
  • Fixed annoying warning in Search Tool
  • Fixed missing config option for rise, set and transit times in GUI
  • Fixed possible crash in AstroCalc/PC tool
  • Fixed adding unnamed stars into bookmarks
  • Fixed fragment shader for planets
  • Fixed uninitialized vars in HelpDialog (Coverity issue)
  • Fixed documentation for for StelObject::getInfoMap()
  • Fixed spheric mirror support on retina displays (GH: #390)
  • Fixed link to the Stellarium User Guide
  • Fixed link to Hawaiian Star Compass Landscape in Hawaiian Starlines (GH: #384)
  • Fixed the performance for AstroCalc tool (GH: #379)
  • Fixed lunar eclipse visualization (GH: #274)
  • Fixed bookmarking for the unnamed stars
  • Fixed Chinese sky culture (GH: #489)
  • Fixed a bug for Chinese skyulture. (GH: #504)
  • Fixed storing the view direction/FoV separately from other settings (GH: #309)
  • Fixed typo in stellarium.desktop (GH: #507)
  • Fixed typo in property setting (Cardinal direction color)
  • Fixed storing of mount mode (conflict in Oculars plugin; GH: #505)
  • Fixed the orientation of M58 texture (GH: #514)
  • Fixed PNG warnings
  • Fixed bad airmass infostring (GH: #525).
  • Fixed button state
  • Fixed the text overlap issue in Observability plugin (GH: #517)
  • Fixed the placement issue of the cross in Pointer Coordinates (GH: #516)
  • Fixed border handling for a DeltaT formula
  • Fixed build with --as-needed (GH: #545)
  • Updated GUI of AstroCalc tool (AstroCalc/AltVsTime, AstroCalc/ME and AstroCalc/Graphs tools has been merged into AstroCalc/Graphs)
  • Updated GUI of AstroCalc tool (visual style has been updated)
  • Updated GUI behaviour: let's hide angular limits for AstroCalc/WUT when the limits are not applicable
  • Updated GUI behaviour: split GUI font size from screen font size
  • Updated GUI behaviour: move color buttons to the left of labels
  • Updated visual style of diagram in Exoplanets plugin
  • Updated code of Satellites plugin
  • Updated names of DSO
  • Updated textures of DSO
  • Updated textures of moons
  • Updated nomenclature
  • Updated documents
  • Updated Oculars plugin: immediate update of display when changing instrument details in GUI.
  • Updated Oculars plugin: separate font scaling for the Oculars GUI panel.
  • Updated Oculars plugin: storing of current instrument (telescope/ocular/CCD/lens) indices
  • Updated RemoteControl plugin: change return types in JSON object info from string-only to native.
  • Updated getInfoString code: separate getMagnitudeInfoString to avoid code repetition.
  • Updated tooltips and labels for AstroCalc/WUT tool
  • Updated default select priority for custom objects and markers (GH: #501)
  • Updated behaviour: the select priority of custom objects and markers now configurable and scriptable
  • Updated behaviour: improved timezone handling, allows scriptable setting (GH: #497)
  • Updated default catalog of exoplanets
  • Updated default catalog of pulsars
  • Updated ArchaeoLines plugin (code refactoring)
  • Updated color setting (code refactoring)
  • Updated behaviour of lists in the AstroCalc/Graphs/Graphs tool (GH: #520)
  • Obsolete code in core has been removed
  • Removed outdated link (GH: #526)
  • Removed doubled parenting code in GUI classes

New in Stellarium 0.18.2 (Aug 16, 2018)

  • The major changes of this version:
  • 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

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.16161 Beta (Jul 31, 2018)

  • 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
  • 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)
  • [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
  • Removed support of terrible Qt plural forms

New in Stellarium 0.18.1 (Jul 2, 2018)

  • Full list of changes:
  • 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 0.90.0.15997 Dev (Jun 5, 2018)

  • 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)

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15977 Dev (Jun 4, 2018)

  • 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)
  • 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
  • Updated behaviour of Toast: lazily creation of the grid
  • [SUG] Updated year for copyright notices
  • Updated Korean Star Names (GH: #173)

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15968 Dev (May 21, 2018)

  • Added dithering support
  • Added filtering for pulsars
  • Added option for Telrad
  • Added nomenclature for Charon
  • Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemris tool
  • Added support Mandarin Chinese language
  • Added support of hi-res screenshots (GH: #141)

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15949 Dev (May 12, 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 30, 2018)

  • Fixed bug when screenshots folder can't be changed via GUI (LP: #1764084)
  • Fixed compile with Qt5.10 (Windows/Visual Studio 2015) (GH: #139)
  • Fixed visibility of splash screen (GH: #142)

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15914 Dev (Apr 23, 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 16, 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 25, 2018)

  • 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

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15868 Dev (Mar 24, 2018)

  • Added support Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] (Hello visualization of multiwavelength universe in the Stellarium)
  • 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 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 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 0.90.0.15814 Dev (Feb 24, 2018)

  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Removed outdated data

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)

  • List of changes between version 0.17.0 and HEAD (0.90.0.15776):
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.15661 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 27, 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
  • Full list of changes:
  • 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 0.90.0.15609 Dev (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 0.90.0.15559 Dev (Dec 9, 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 0.90.0.9959 Dev (Nov 13, 2017)

  • Added new plugin: Distance Calculator
  • Fixed shader for planet texture rendering (LP: #1731788)

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9954 Dev (Nov 12, 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
  • 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 29, 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
  • Added angular size filter for DSO
  • Fixed behaviour 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 15, 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 8, 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 23, 2017)

  • List of changes between version 0.16.1 and HEAD (0.90.0.9829):
  • 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 22, 2017)

  • Added improvements for AstroCalc tool
  • 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)
  • Added support asterisms and outlines for DSO
  • Added improvements for the GUI

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9817 Dev (Sep 17, 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 0.90.0.9789 Dev (Sep 4, 2017)

  • Added support for ray helpers
  • Fixed cross-ids of 42 bright double stars (LP: #1655493)
  • 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 0.90.0.9776 Dev (Aug 27, 2017)

  • Added new feature (crossed lines and output string near mouse cursor) to the Pointer Coordinates plugin
  • Fixed crash with unknown star in asterism

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9772 Dev (Aug 24, 2017)

  • Fixed behaviour of 'Center on selected object' button (LP: #1712101)
  • Fixed impossibility to select a planet after Astronomical Calculations is activated (LP: #1712652)

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9767 Dev (Aug 21, 2017)

  • Added support of comments for constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711433)
  • Added support for small asterisms with lines by the equatorial coordinates
  • Fixed crash when comments is added into constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711229)
  • Updated list of asterisms

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9757 Dev (Aug 17, 2017)

  • Fixed default option of units of measure for surface brighness to avoid possible artifacts on the macOS (LP: #1699643)
  • Updated plugins

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
  • 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 1, 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 29, 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 23, 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 17, 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

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
  • Fixed a conflict around landscape autoselection (LP: #1700199)
  • Fixed a conflict around landscape autoselection (LP: #1700199)

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 RC 1 (Jun 21, 2017)

  • We plan to release Stellarium 0.16.0 around June 21 (at the moment first release candidate was published for the testing of planetarium and translations checking).
  • This will an another major release with fixes of bugs and a few new important features - another one step to version 1.0. This version has many changes in the GUI and we added many new lines for translation. If you can assist with translation to any of the 140 languages which Stellarium supports, please go to Launchpad Translations and help us out: https://translations.launchpad.net/stellarium
  • If you can help translate description of sky cultures and landscapes on your language then we would be grateful to you for this. You need a create your branch, add 'description.YOUR-LANG-CODE.utf8' files from description.en.utf8 and translate it!

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9567 Dev (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 0.90.0.9529 Dev (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.
  • Added lunar magnitude to sky brightness computation (brightness variation during lunar eclipses!) (LP: #1471546)
  • Added property handling for the labels for ArchaeoLines plugin
  • 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 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 bug which disabled the bright flare-type Iridium point source drawing
  • Fixed fullscreen behaviour on switching tasks (Alt+Tab) (LP: #550337)
  • Updated Belarusian translation for skycultures
  • Updated cmake variable names
  • Added RemoteSync plugin documentation to Guide

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9455 Dev (May 29, 2017)

  • Added contrast index for DSO
  • Added AstroCalc/Graphs feature
  • 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
  • Updated Satellites plugin: refactoring the source code and speed-up rendering of satellites
  • Updated AstroCalc tool: extension of features for Ephemeris Tool
  • Removed script 'Analemma'
  • Added chapter on RemoteSync

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9405 Dev (May 21, 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 30, 2017)

  • 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
  • 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 nonEnglush 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.
  • Restore searchable for telescope names (LP: #1686857)
  • 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 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 0.90.0.9313 Dev (Apr 23, 2017)

  • 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

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9283 Dev (Apr 17, 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 9, 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 9, 2017)

  • Added GPS devices support (LP: #1448673)
  • Added a few more timezone replacements.
  • 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
  • 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

New in Stellarium 0.15.2 (Mar 22, 2017)

  • The Stellarium development team after three months of development is proud to announce the second correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.15.x - version 0.15.2. This version contains few closed bugs (ported from series 1.x) and some new additions and improvements.
  • We have updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, we highly recommended reset the settings when you will install the new version (you can choose required points in the installer).
  • A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!
  • Full list of changes:
  • 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 0.90.0.9196 Dev (Mar 17, 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

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9160 Dev (Mar 6, 2017)

  • Fixed escaping of symbols for Simbad Lookup (LP: #1669088)
  • Added displaying solstices points (LP: #1670046)
  • 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)

  • 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)
  • Updated Oculars plugin

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9146 Dev (Feb 20, 2017)

  • Added a scriptable function to retrieve landscape brightness.
  • Added Spout licence.txt to Windows installer script
  • 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.
  • 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 6, 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 30, 2017)

  • Added textures for DSO
  • Added a mean solar day (equals to Earth's day) on the Sun for educational purposes
  • Fixed crash of program (LP: #1653315)

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.9115 Dev (Jan 23, 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)

  • 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 indirect dependency to QtOpenGL by QtMultimediaWidgets (LP: #1656525)
  • 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 0.15.1 (Dec 25, 2016)

  • Includes changes from the previous Dev versions

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8980 Dev (Dec 19, 2016)

  • Added support Spout under Windows (Stellarium is Spout Sender now)
  • 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 AstroCalc icon (LP: #1641256)
  • Fixed error in light curve model of historical supernovae (LP: #1648978)
  • Updated shortcuts

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 0.90.0.8911 Dev (Dec 4, 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
  • Verification the star names by the official IAU star names list

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8898 Dev (Nov 27, 2016)

  • Updated Scenery3d plugin
  • Updated Scripting Engine

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 0.90.0.8823 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
  • Updated list of locations (2nd version of format - TZ support)

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8803 Dev (Nov 4, 2016)

  • Added Millions of light years distance to infostring for galaxies (LP: #1637809)
  • Added 2 custom declination lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
  • Fixed calculations of the value of the Moon secular acceleration when JPL DE43x ephemeris is used
  • Fixed distances for objects of Caldwell catalogue
  • Updated Satellites plugin
  • Updated default catalogues for plugins

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8774 Dev (Oct 28, 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 24, 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 markers for equinoxes
  • Added supergalactic coordinate system
  • Added code for management of SkyPoints in Oculars plugin
  • Added notes to the Help window
  • 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: Removed errors and duplicates
  • Updated stars catalogues
  • Removed the useless misspelled names from list of stars

New in Stellarium 0.90.0.8723 Dev (Oct 9, 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 6, 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 18, 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 0.90.0.8660 Dev (Aug 29, 2016)

  • 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)
  • Removed color profiles from PNG files
  • Updated settings for AstroCalc
  • Updated Stellarium User Guide

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 behaviour 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)

  • Updated AstroCalc tool

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 4, 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 27, 2016)

  • Star catalogues has been updated from 'XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation' data.

New in Stellarium 0.14.90.8485 Dev (Jun 25, 2016)

  • Allow altitude-dependent twinkling for stars (LP: #1594065)
  • Allow display of sun's halo if sun is just outside viewport (LP: #1294498)
  • Updated the search rules in the search dialog (LP: #1593965)

New in Stellarium 0.14.90.8461 Dev (Jun 23, 2016)

  • Added RemoteControl and preliminary RemoteSync plugins (SoCiS2015 project)
  • Added StelProperty system (SoCiS2015 project)
  • Added Circumpolar Circles (LP: #1590785)
  • Added Miller Cylindrical Projection
  • 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 5, 2016)

  • Added new skycultures: Macedonian, Ojibwe, Dakota/Lakota/Nakota
  • Make moon halo visible again even when below -45 degrees (LP: #1586796)

New in Stellarium 0.14.85.0 Dev (May 29, 2016)

  • Allow polygonal horizons with many negative values (LP: #1554639)

New in Stellarium 0.14.84.0 Dev (May 23, 2016)

  • Added option for hide background under buttons on bottom toolbar (LP: #1204639)
  • Added check position on the screen for orbits of satellites (LP: #1510530)
  • Fixed validation of day in Date and Time dialog (LP: #1206284)
  • Fixed issue of getting location from network.
  • Fixed bug in visualization of opposition/conjunction longitude
  • Updated Navigational Stars plugin

New in Stellarium 0.14.83.0 Dev (May 8, 2016)

  • Fixed a loss of focus in the sky when you click on the button (LP: #1578773)

New in Stellarium 0.14.82.2 Dev (Apr 30, 2016)

  • Fixed omission in documentation (LP: #1574583, #1575059)
  • Refactoring Telescope Control plugin

New in Stellarium 0.14.82.1 Dev (Apr 24, 2016)

  • Refactoring of the generating parts of the infrastructure (LP: #1571391)

New in Stellarium 0.14.81.0 Dev (Apr 16, 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 3, 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 behaviour for autodiscovery location through network (FreeGeoIP)
  • Updated and optimized GUI

New in Stellarium 0.14.3 (Mar 20, 2016)

  • A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!
  • List of changes between version 0.14.2 and 0.14.3:
  • 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 0.14.77.0 Dev (Mar 14, 2016)

  • 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)
  • Changed behaviour for drawing of the planet orbits (LP: #1509673)

New in Stellarium 0.14.76.0 Dev (Mar 7, 2016)

  • Added new DSO textures
  • Added exit pupil calculation in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1500225)
  • Fixed issue for resets flip buttons in Oculars plugin (LP: #1511389)

New in Stellarium 0.14.75.0 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 0.14.74.0 Dev (Feb 22, 2016)

  • Fixed translation of Egyptian planet names (LP: #1548008)

New in Stellarium 0.14.73.0 Dev (Feb 15, 2016)

  • Added ecliptical coordinates info for objects in scripting engine
  • Fixed format for declination in AstroCalc
  • Fixed window location having offscreen frame when leaving fullscreen (LP: #1471954)
  • Fixed core.moveToAltAzi(90,XX) issue (LP: #1068529)
  • Implementation of quick turning to different directions (examples: CdC, HNSKY)

New in Stellarium 0.14.72.0 Dev (Feb 8, 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
  • 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 25, 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 0.14.68.0 Dev (Jan 17, 2016)

  • Allow configurable speed and script speed buttons
  • 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])
  • Fixed loading scenes for Scenery 3D plugin (LP: #1533069)
  • Updated default config options
  • Updated scripts

New in Stellarium 0.14.2 (Jan 8, 2016)

  • List of changes between version 0.14.1 and 0.14.2:
  • 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)
  • 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 0.14.66.0 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 0.14.65.0 Dev (Dec 14, 2015)

  • Added Prime Vertical and Colures lines
  • Finished migration from Phonon to QtMultimedia (LP: #1260108)
  • Allow viewport offset change in scripts.
  • Reconfigure viewDialog GUI to put constellation switches to skylore tab.
  • Fixed display of sidereal time (mod24), show apparent sidereal time only if nutation is used.
  • Updated icons for View dialog
  • Avoid false display of tiny eclipse factor (rounding error).
  • Updated default config options
  • Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO

New in Stellarium 0.14.61.0 Dev (Dec 6, 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 1, 2015)

  • The Stellarium development team after month of development is proud to announce the first correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.14.x - version 0.14.1. This version contains 13 closed bugs (ported from version 0.15.0).
  • FIXED:
  • Assignee Status
  • The last star catalog (stars_8_2v0_0.cat) can't be loaded on Windows XP
  • Segmentation fault (core dumped) while try update stars catalog
  • Ecliptic obliquity is wrong
  • Fails to run up on Windows when invoked from a different directory
  • Settings not saved for some View panel options Released
  • The Pluto system has major bugs
  • Certain outplanet moons with wrong Longitudes
  • number of satellite orbit segments resets
  • Some stars in Scorpius are missing their Bayer designation
  • Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures
  • constellation art brightness and zooming
  • Enhancements of the Ocular plugin: add OAG support
  • 4K resolution (GUI scaling)
  • Enable support for side-by-side assembly technology

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 15, 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 7, 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
  • 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 improvements in Stellarium's installer on Windows

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)

  • Version 0.14.0 brings a big leap forward in astronomical accuracy for historical applications:
  • 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.
  • A platform-specific change for Windows: OpenGL binding is now dynamic. That means, there are no more separate OpenGL/ANGLE/MESA downloads, but after installation you will have separate commands in the start menu which force ANGLE or MESA modes.

New in Stellarium 0.13.95.0 Dev (Oct 18, 2015)

  • Fixed crash in Sinusoidal Projection (LP: #1472555)
  • Fixed unusual meteor shower display (LP: #1506126)

New in Stellarium 0.13.90.2 Dev (Oct 17, 2015)

  • Updated list of detection operating systems (LP: #1504910)
  • Fixed night mode on retina display (LP: #1458109)

New in Stellarium 0.13.80.1 Dev (Oct 5, 2015)

  • Added support of SOCKS5 proxies (LP: #1499974)
  • Updated on-screen control panel in Oculars plugin (LP: #1467286)

New in Stellarium 0.13.71.0 Dev (Sep 26, 2015)

  • Updated skycultures (LP: #1497818)
  • Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1240791)
  • Fixed obvious omission in Observability plugin after having separated JD/JDE (LP: #1499161)
  • 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 rendering of sunlight and moonlight when show of Solar System objects is disabled (LP: #1499699)

New in Stellarium 0.13.70.1 Dev (Sep 14, 2015)

  • Added escape counter to allow exiting loop in solving Kepler's equation (LP: #1465112)

New in Stellarium 0.13.70.0 Dev (Sep 6, 2015)

  • Added tool for prediction of Iridium flares to Satellites plugin

New in Stellarium 0.13.69.0 Dev (Aug 30, 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 potention 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 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)
  • 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 0.13.3 (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-a 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
  • 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 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • 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 0.13.1 (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
  • Added: Support of multi-touch gestures on Windows 8
  • Added: FOV on bottom bar can be displayed in DMS rather than fractional degrees
  • Added: Oculars plugins support eyepieces with permanent crosshairs
  • Added: Pointer Coordinates Plugin can displayed not only RA/Dec (J2000.0)
  • Added: Angle Measure Plugin can measure positional angles to the horizon now
  • Added: Search tool can search position not only for RA/Dec (J2000.0)
  • Fixed: Galactic plane renamed to correct: Galactic equator
  • Fixed: Speed issues when computing lots of comets
  • Fixed: Spherical mirror distortion work correctly now
  • Fixed: Location coordinates on the bottom bar displayed correctly now
  • Fixed: Ecliptic coordinates for J2000.0 and grids diplayed correctly now
  • Fixed: Rule for select a celestial objects
  • Fixed: Loading extra star catalogs
  • Fixed: Creates spurious directory on startup
  • Fixed: Various GUI/rendering improvements
  • Fixed: "missing disk in drive "

New in Stellarium 0.13.0 (Jul 19, 2014)

  • This release brings some interesting new features:
  • New modulated core
  • Refactored shadows and introducing the normal mapping
  • Sporadic meteors and meteors has the colors now
  • Comet tails rendering
  • New translatable strings and new textures
  • 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 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
  • There have also been a large number of bug fixes and serious performance improvements
  • We have updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, we highly recommended reset the settings when you will install the new version (you can choose required points in the installer).
  • 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 (Sep 30, 2013)

  • fixed crash Stellarium when enabled binoculars in the Oculars plugin
  • added render nighttime landscapes without lighting

New in Stellarium 0.12.3 (Sep 9, 2013)

  • This release contains a new Bright Novae plugin and fixes of few bugs within plugins and search tool.

New in Stellarium 0.12.3 Dev 4 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • improvements for Historical Supernovae and Bright Novae plugins.

New in Stellarium 0.12.3 Dev 3 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • improvements for Oculars, Exoplanets and Historical Supernovae plugins; added new plugin - Bright Novae.

New in Stellarium 0.12.2 (Aug 5, 2013)

  • New features:
  • variable stars, re-packed star catalogs (Hipparcos and Tycho-2), improvements for plugins, scripting engine and search tool.
  • New version of the Satellites plug-in (0.8.1) with features:
  • automatic adding of new satellites on update from selected update sources; by default, only new naked-eye satellites are auto-added
  • automatic removal of satellites if they are no longer listed in the update sources
  • "user-defined" flag protecting satellites from update/removal
  • satellites can be added to/removed from satellite groups from the GUI
  • custom satellite groups can be defined
  • the default satellite group names and satellite descriptions are translatable

New in Stellarium 0.12.2 RC 1 (Jul 15, 2013)

  • Major changes from 0.12.2beta: change flags for compilers, bug fixing and improvements of main app.

New in Stellarium 0.12.2 Dev 3 (May 12, 2013)

  • fixing of bugs and new star names (proper names for Chinese and Western starlores).

New in Stellarium 0.12.2 Dev 2 (May 8, 2013)

  • Improved plugins
  • Improved star catalog accuracy
  • Bug fixes

New in Stellarium 0.12.2 Dev 1 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • Improvements for Pulsars, Quasars, Exoplanets and Oculars plugins, automatic change of landscape on planet change, fixing of bugs (spherical mirror distortion works correctly again!).

New in Stellarium 0.12.1 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • Added:
  • Use different formulae for DeltaT calculations
  • Show/hide starts at magnitude > X featur
  • Added translations for Inno Setup installer
  • Added Caldwell catalog
  • New skyculture: Tongan
  • New feature for Oculars plugin: support Barlow/Shapley lenses
  • Control brightness of the milky way
  • Satellites plugin: New Galileo satellites
  • Control brightness of the landscapes at startup
  • Changed:
  • Repacked default star catalogs
  • Repacked locations catalog
  • Refactored GUI
  • Update textures for DSO
  • Improved accuracy for NEO
  • Fixed:
  • Sidereal day & sunrise/sunset
  • Wrong solar day
  • Pluto and Charon are not tidally locked in Stellarium
  • Search problem in different language
  • Bortle light pollution scale setting not working
  • The preference of "Render Solar Shadow" cannot be saved
  • Background color of the night sky
  • Time is slightly off (from system time)
  • Dynamic plugins don't load on window
  • Satellite event times differ
  • Yellow/Black Checkered Flag while Object Picture is Loading
  • Planet display bug
  • Star on meridian has wrong hour angle
  • Location window spin box up/down behavior

New in Stellarium 0.12.1 RC 1 (Apr 15, 2013)

  • New features: Caldwell catalog for nebulae, re-packed star catalogs (Hipparcos and Tycho-2), delta-T manager, star magnitude limit control and various small GUI changes. The release candidate has over 30 closed bugs in the core application and plugins.

New in Stellarium 0.12.0 (Jan 31, 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 There have also been a large number of bug fixes and GUI improvements.
  • Added:
  • New plugin: Exoplanets
  • New plugin: Observability analysis
  • Get geometric altitude and azimuth for script engine
  • Sky image loading with altitude/azimuth coordinates
  • New hotkey for star name labels
  • Option to activate/deactivate the Nebula Background Images button via GUI
  • Return to user set location and landscape
  • Display degrees and minutes for FOV of CCD
  • Adding all possible satellites
  • Building a Windows x64 packages
  • Apply atmosphere effect only on bodies with atmosphere
  • Fixed:
  • Various Stellarium freezes and crashed
  • Various plugins issues
  • Various issues for nebulae
  • Add/subtract one sidereal year jumps wrong amount
  • Various small issues, typos and mistakes
  • Various issues in Scripting Engine (
  • 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 0.11.4 (Aug 27, 2012)

  • Added:
  • New plugin: Exoplanets
  • New plugin: Observability analysis
  • Get geometric altitude and azimuth for script engine
  • Sky image loading with altitude/azimuth coordinates
  • New hotkey for star name labels
  • Option to activate/deactivate the Nebula Background Images button via GUI
  • Return to user set location and landscape
  • Display degrees and minutes for FOV of CCD
  • Adding all possible satellites
  • Building a Windows x64 packages
  • Apply atmosphere effect only on bodies with atmosphere
  • Fixed:
  • Various Stellarium freezes and crashed
  • Various plugins issues
  • Various issues for nebulae
  • Add/subtract one sidereal year jumps wrong amount
  • Various small issues, typos and mistakes
  • Various issues in Scripting Engine
  • 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 0.11.4 RC1 (Aug 13, 2012)

  • This release has over 30 closed bugs in the main application and in the plugins. Also this version has improvements of GUI and two new plugins.

New in Stellarium 0.11.3 (May 18, 2012)

  • Added:
  • ecliptic grid
  • world observatories to the locations list
  • allow configuration of url for SIMBAD lookups
  • opportunity to freely choose the object information to display
  • Pluto texture
  • Fixed:
  • No objects under horizon
  • (MinGW-w64) CMake does not detect Win64
  • (MinGW-w64) Compilation errors
  • Oculars FOV
  • "Galactic Plane" string does not get translated when language is switched Use freedesktop specification for Unity quicklists
  • Apparent diameter of planets with rings
  • Crash [assert] when FOV is small and Quasars or Historical Supernovae plugins is enabled
  • Angle Measure plug-in reads the wrong options from the configuration file Crash in debug mode on displaying constellation borders
  • Star halo "dances" for small Solar System objects
  • RTL-languages is not displayed correctly when using gravity labels
  • Orbits with close perihelions are not displayed correctly
  • Precision of angular diameter lower than intended
  • Moons' orbit lines broken by parent planet movement with time
  • Invalid user defined location cause Stellarium to crash
  • Difficulty to select zoomed in planets and moons
  • Altazimutal grid not overlapping equatorial grid when located on poles
  • Global key bindings not global
  • Screenshot write permission fail (Vista/7)
  • Wrong planet phases as seen from more outer planets
  • Zoom in/out command sticks
  • Importing SSOs causes some strange effects
  • Not updated values of dimensions of CCD while changes telescopes
  • Gravity labels rendered incorrectly
  • Keyboard shortcut for subtract one sidereal year don't works

New in Stellarium 0.11.2 (Mar 12, 2012)

  • The main theme of this version seems to be 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • a checkbox allowing the SIMBAD on-line search to be enabled/disabled.
  • Fixed:
  • startup script crash
  • plugin names localization in the Configuration window
  • resizing of the tabs in Configuration and View windows on language change sky lines' labels not translated on language change
  • "Get catalog" button not translated on language change
  • last star catalog not being offered for download
  • proxy configuration without username/password
  • Telescope Control plug-in: mishandling of IP connections in the telescope configuration window
  • Pluto's moon Hydra preventing the constellation from being selected in Search and scripts
  • scripting code still being included despite ENABLE_SCRIPTING set to 0 constellations lines and names not displayed
  • newly created location cannot be set as default

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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Added (experimental) modelling of atmospheric extinction for point objects.
  • Changed the position of the text in the Text User Interface plug-in.
  • Added a checkbox allowing the SIMBAD on-line search to be enabled/disabled.
  • Fixed:
  • plugin names localization in the Configuration window
  • resizing of the tabs in Configuration and View windows on language change
  • sky lines' labels not translated on language change
  • "Get catalog" button not translated on language change
  • last star catalog not being offered for download
  • proxy configuration without username/password
  • Telescope Control plug-in: mishandling of IP connections in the telescope configuration window
  • Pluto's moon Hydra preventing the constellation from being selected in Search and scripts
  • scripting code still being included despite ENABLE_SCRIPTING set to 0

New in Stellarium 0.11.1 (Nov 4, 2011)

  • Bug fix release.
  • Added:
  • new skyculture: Arabic - new moons and rings
  • new translations for landscapes and sky cultures
  • possibility to observate geo-orbiting satellites
  • new cities
  • misspelling on a star name
  • 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"
  • 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
  • Historical Supernovae plug-in: a bug in plug-in name
  • 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
  • horizon line setting not saved
  • orbital period totally wrong for Himalia
  • flag_show_fps = false & flag_show_fov = flase.
  • 11.0 will crash if a landscape is selected with misspelled planet name
  • crash on selecting off-Earth location in the Location window
  • 0.11.0 crashes when switching language while location window is open
  • 0.11.0 crashes when trying using custom distortion file

New in Stellarium 0.11.0 (Jul 4, 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 in Stellarium 0.10.6 (Dec 5, 2010)

  • New features:
  • 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 3, 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 0.10.4 (Feb 23, 2010)

  • sky:
  • default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
  • extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
  • asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
  • constellations for twelve different cultures
  • images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
  • realistic Milky Way
  • very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
  • the planets and their satellites
  • interface :
  • a powerful zoom
  • time control
  • multilingual interface
  • fisheye projection for planetarium domes
  • spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
  • all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
  • telescope control
  • visualisation:
  • equatorial and azimuthal grids
  • star twinkling
  • shooting stars
  • eclipse simulation
  • skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
  • customisability :
  • plugin system adding artifical satellites, ocular simulation, telescrope configuration and more
  • add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts...

New in Stellarium 0.10.3 (Jan 29, 2010)

  • Based on Qt 4.6.x
  • Bundling of plugins: Satellites, Oculars, AngleMeasure, CompassMarks, TelescopeControl, TextUserInterface.
  • New script engine improvements including variable script running speed, and a script console (activate with F12).
  • Made tabs in GUI smaller by moving titles under the icons.
  • Updated the plugin API to allow to compilation and easy distribution of static plugins.
  • Added plugins window.
  • Got rid of the boost library dependency.
  • The whole sky display viewport is now contained in a class deriving from QGraphicsWidget, allowing to move and resize it as a normal widget.
  • Generalized the use of shared pointers for StelObject management.
  • Use vertex shaders for computation of atmosphere color if OpenGL supports it.
  • Optimized openGL calls by replacing glBegin()/glEnd() by the use of vertexArray.
  • Optimization of critical parts of the projection code.
  • Added code for managing and displaying non-convex polygons + unit tests.
  • Recoded the StelGrid code to support non ponctual sky regions, and optimized API (new class StelSphericalIndex + unit tests)
  • Optimized many part of the code by reducing creation of temporary Vec3d/Vec3f.
  • Optimized JSON parser (x25 speed improvement) + unit tests.
  • Migrated all text drawing system to QFont. This fixes long standing bugs for displaying arabic and asian characters in the sky. Also allow to get rid of 6 source files and of the freetype dependency (managed internally to Qt)
  • Switch default back end mode to native for Windows as ATI drivers often have problems, still raster default for other platforms. Add --graphics-system option.
  • Fixed magnitude computation for most of the planets.
  • Use GL Shader for stars rendering if OpenGL >= 2.1.
  • Re-organized the startup by moving log and command line processing to main.cpp.
  • Re-coded all the management of extra star catalogs.
  • Implemented partial support of OpenGLES 2.0.
  • Moved official plugins code into plugins/ and changed the cmake config so that they are automatically compiled in static.
  • Re-coded the texture engine based on Qt loading features (Got rid of explicit libjpeg and libpng dependencies!).
  • Allowed to first render the sky in a frame buffer.
  • Moved the code related to viewport distortions into a new class StelViewportEffect based on frame buffer object.
  • Added working cmake targets for compilig and runing unit tests.
  • Added a delay before making Simbad name lookup queries to avoid sending too many requests.
  • Added the Aztec sky culture.
  • Many minor fixes and optimizations.

New in Stellarium 0.10.2 (Mar 9, 2009)

  • Based on Qt 4.5.
  • Display constellations lines using nicely distorted arcs.
  • Fixed GUI problems when creating a new location.
  • Fixed the grid lines wrap around at the discontinuities in cylindrical and Mercator projection.
  • Hide the planet computation problems after year 80608.
  • Use the Qt raster engine by default. This fixes mac rendering bugs and speeds up greatly the GUI rendering.
  • Improved management of intersection of viewports with large FOV and projections with singularities.
  • Added Hammer-Aitoff projection allowing full sky overview.
  • Fixed various bugs.