What's new in Aciqra 2.3.3
Sep 19, 2013
- Fixed memory leak when selecting objects
- New plugin system of tools
New in Aciqra 2.3.2 (Jul 26, 2013)
- Optimizations in sector functions
- Minor display adjustments
- Corrected mean slope parameter for asteroids
New in Aciqra 2.3.1 (Jun 24, 2013)
- Full screen status now reflected in the full screen button
- Force OpenGL to update appropriately after exiting full screen
- Fixed issue of incorrect cursor on some systems
- Minor adjustments to appearance of interface
- Increased precision for rise, set and transit time and transit altitude
- Properly account for perspective in comet tails
- Show time with leading zeros when appropriate
- Use of improved rise/set/transit algorithm
New in Aciqra 2.3.0 (Mar 4, 2013)
- Streamlined installation procedure
- Allow selection of a planet by clicking anywhere on its surface
- Removed angle indicator to reduce clutter
- Semi-realistic rendering of comets
- Reduced size of glow when "Show Planets as Starlike" is disabled
- Dimmed menus & selection indicator to be less intrusive
- Button to toggle between windowed and full screen modes
- Option to show the path of selected objects
- Antialiasing on round objects
- Show alternative names and designations for selected objects
- Grid shows several different levels of detail based on field of view
- Optimized precession calculations
- Improved readability of text with partially transparent background
New in Aciqra 2.2.1 (Mar 4, 2013)
- Fixed planetary position calculations
- Optimized memory use and management of extended databases
- Fixed extended star database query boundaries
- Optimized proper motion calculations
- Increased contrast in night vision mode
- Resolved oddities with saving the current view
- Reordered sections of the configuration file
New in Aciqra 2.2.0 (Mar 4, 2013)
- Fixed tracking for Earth's rotation while changing time
- Minor improvements in coordinate conversion speed
- Display information on rise, set and transit times
- Calculate estimated surface brightness
- Show deep space objects without defined magnitudes
- Coloring of deep space objects from B-V Index
- Deep space objects have more realistic shapes
- Added Galilean satellites of Jupiter
- Fixed keypresses to exit and toggle buttons
- Display absolute magnitudes of objects
- Search for objects
New in Aciqra 2.1.0 (Dec 22, 2011)
- Fixed night vision mode's background color
- Update checker and downloader
- Internationalized planet names
- Simulate lunar eclipses (show Earth's umbra and penumbra)
- Fixed blending for the first frame
- Support for asteroids and comets
- Angle indicator which shows a circle of a user-defined angle
New in Aciqra 2.0.5 Milestone 5 (Dec 22, 2011)
- Show illumination percentage under object information
- Support for the Tycho-2 star catalog
- Option for solar system objects to [not] look like stars when zoomed out
- Phases of the Sun, Moon and planets
- Transition from star-like glow to disk for solar system objects
- Solar system objects draw with correct z-index
- Coordinate grids (equatorial and horizontal) with labels
New in Aciqra 2.0.4 Milestone 4 (Dec 22, 2011)
- Label cardinal directions
- Option to hide information text
- Labels can show other data besides an object's name
- Time controls for moving between times while running
- Redesigned interface with more menus and controls
- Changed constellation boundaries to solid lines
New in Aciqra 2.0.3 Milestone 3 (Dec 22, 2011)
- Draw constellation boundaries and names
- Show actual size of solar system objects (when zoomed in enough)
- Display information about current display
- Save current display to an image (for printing, sharing, etc.)
- Show actual size of deep space objects
- Switched to using built-in fonts
- Highlight selected objects
- Hipparcos catalog of ~118,000 stars added to replace BST
- Navigation in azimuth made relatively consistent
- Optimization by reducing table lookups and using locals
- Show custom horizon (default is flat horizon)
- Fixed bug of the inability to select stars without proper motion
- Menu icon descriptions internationalized
New in Aciqra 2.0.2 Milestone 2 (Dec 22, 2011)
- Show object labels on hover
- Labeling for menu icons
- Precession & nutation corrections
- Account for proper motion with stars
- Tracking for Earth's rotation
- Night vision mode
- Atmospheric refraction
- Indicate whether a button's setting is active
- Labeling of deep space objects
- Messier object names for NGC/IC catalog
- Fixed bug with sectors along the 0h RA line
- Proper names for Yale Bright Star Catalog
- Navigation with mouse
New in Aciqra 2.0.1 Milestone 1 (Dec 22, 2011)
- Star catalog loading using SQLite
- Visible object selection acceleration
- Use Aloac for celestial calculations
- Use OpenGL for drawing
New in Aciqra 1.3.2 (Apr 27, 2011)
- Long-standing horizon bug fixed
- Updater now works
- Star sizes appear more realistic
- Minor adjustments in UI
New in Aciqra 1.2.1 (Jun 14, 2009)
- Topocentric corrections broken in 1.2. Removing for now
New in Aciqra 1.2 (Jun 8, 2009)
- Improvements in accuracy (~2' now). Slightly larger database of deep space objects with the addition of about 20 bright NGC objects. Minor body tracking supported.
New in Aciqra 1.1.2 (Apr 26, 2009)
- Updated algorithm. Fixed some significant errors
New in Aciqra 1.1.0 (Apr 5, 2009)
- Includes support for periodic comet tracking (and non-periodic tracking to a lesser degree of accuracy).
- A comet editor has also been implemented.
- A new set of icons have been created.
- The location setup has also been modified to now allow for decimal values and is dynamic.