v0.14.2

Release notes:

Released 2016-01-08

The Stellarium development team after month of development is proud to announce the second correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.14.x - version 0.14.2. This version contains few closed bugs (ported from version 0.15.0).

A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!

Changelog:

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)
• Fixed wrong altitude of culmination in Observability plugin (LP: #1531561)
• Fixed connection troubles in Telescope Control Plugin on Windows (LP: #1530372)
• Refactoring coloring markers of the DSO
• Removed info about Moon phases (avoid inconsistency for strings).
• Updated default config options
• Updated icons for View dialog
• Updated Stellarium DSO Catalog
• Added list of dwarf galaxies (Search Tool)
• Added improvements in Scenery 3D plugin

v0.14.1

Release notes:

Released 2015-12-02

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).

A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.14.0 and 0.14.1:

• Added support for side-by-side assembly technology (LP: #1400045)
• Enhancements of the Ocular plugin: add OAG support (LP: #1354427)
• Added Belarusian translation for landscapes and sky cultures (LP: #1520303)
• Added designations for few stars in Scorpius (LP: #1518437)
• Fixed constellation art brightness and zooming (LP: #1520783)
• Fixed number of satellite orbit segments resets (LP: #1510592)
• Fixed certain outplanet moons with wrong Longitudes (LP: #1509693, #1509692)
• Fixed saving settings for some View panel options (LP: #1509639)
• Fixed fails to run up on Windows when invoked from a different directory (LP: #1410529)
• Fixed wrong value of ecliptic obliquity (LP: #1520792)
• Fixed segmentation fault (core dumped) while try update stars catalog (LP: #1514542)
• Tentative fix for support 4K resolution (GUI scaling) (LP: #1372781)

v0.14.0

Release notes:

Released 2015-10-24

The Stellarium development team after 6 months of development is proud to announce the release of version 0.14.0 of Stellarium.

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 Vondrak 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.

Changelog:

List of changes between version 0.13.3 and 0.14.0:

• Added accurate calculations of the ecliptic obliquity. Finally we have good precession! (LP: #512086, #1126981, #1240070, #1282558, #1444323)
• Added calculations of the nutation. Now we optionally have IAU-2000B nutation. (Applied between 1500..2500 only.)
• Added new DSO catalog and related to him features (LP: #1453731, #1432243, #1285175, #1237165, #1189983, #1153804, #1127633, #1106765, #1106761, #957083)
• Added Iridium flares to Satellites plugin (LP: #1106782)
• Added tool for prediction of Iridium flares to Satellites plugin
• Added AstroCalc - a tool for calculating planetary phenomena (LP: #1181702)
• Added list of interesting double stars in Search Tool
• Added list of interesting variable stars in Search Tool
• Added cross-identification data for HIP stars (SAO and HD numbers)
• Added sinusoidal projection
• Added draw DSO symbols with different colors
• Added labels to the landscapes (gazetteer support)
• Added a new behaviour for drawing of orbit for selected planet - drawing of the orbits of 'hierarchical group' (parent and all their childrens) of the selected celestial body (disabled by default) (LP: #1071457).
• Added an option to lower the horizon, e.g. for a widescreen cylindrical view with mostly sky and ground on lower screen border (LP: #1299063).
• Added various timeshift-by-year commands (LP: #1478670)
• Added Moon's phases info
• Added support of SOCKS5 proxies (LP: #1499974)
• Rewriting the Meteor module and the Meteor Showers plugin (LP: #1471143)
• Updated skycultures (LP: #1497818)
• Updated Hungarian and Brazilian Portuguese translations of landscapes and skycultures
• Updated data for Solar System Observer
• Updated color scheme for constellations
• Updated documentation
• Updated QZip stuff
• Updated TUI plugin
• Updated data for Satellites plugin
• Updated Clang support
• Updated Pluto and Charon textures
• Updated GCVS catalog
• Updated ssystem.ini (LP: #1240791)
• Using a better formula for CCD FOV calculation in Oculars plugin (LP: #1440330)
• Updated on-screen control panel in Oculars plugin (LP: #1467286)
• Updated list of detection operating systems (LP: #1504910)
• Fixed shortkeys conflict (New shortkeys for Scenery 3D plugin - LP: #1449767)
• Fixed aliasing issue with GCC in star data unpacking
• Fixed documentation for core.wait() function (LP: #1450870)
• Fixed perspective projection issue (LP: #724868)
• Fixed crash on activation of AngleMeasure in debug mode (LP: #1455839)
• Fixed crash in Sinusoidal Projection (LP: #1472555)
• Fixed issue for update bottom bar position when we toggle the GUI (LP: #1409023)
• Fixed weird view of the Moon in Oculars plugin when Moon's scaling is enabled
• Fixed non-realistic mode drawing of artificial satellites
• Fixed availability plugins for the scripting engine (LP: #1468986)
• Fixed potention memory bug in Meteor class
• Fixed wrong spectral types for some stars (LP: #1429530)
• Fixed style of progress bar (LP: #1419895)
• Fixed tooltip colors in night mode (LP: #1300801)
• Fixed visibility of selected object info in night mode (LP: #1487096)
• Fixed behaviour of waitFor function (scripting engine) (LP: #1051858)
• Fixed resize event handler on Windows (LP: #1490265)
• Fixed regression bug of key movements
• Fixed magnitude of the Sun during solar eclipse (LP: #1485245)
• Fixed obvious omission in Observability plugin after having separated JD/JDE (LP: #1499161)
• Fixed night mode on retina display (LP: #1458109)
• Fixed unusual meteor shower display (LP: #1506126)
• Enable autosaving the state by default for Compass Marks plugin (LP: #1410987)
• Added escape counter to allow exiting loop in solving Kepler's equation (LP: #1465112)
• Added limitation magnitude for solar system objects (LP: #1409543)
• Added extinctive reddening on the horizon for planets, esp. visible for Sun/Moon/bright planets (LP: #1448621)
• Added tooltip for 'Select single constellation' option (LP: #1498022)
• Avoid entering locations with leading whitespace (LP: #1083731)
• Avoid rendering of sunlight and moonlight when show of Solar System objects is disabled (LP: #1499699)
• Change visibleSkyArea limitation to allow landscapes with "holes" in the ground. (LP: #1469407)
• Improved Delta T feature (LP: #1380242)
• Improved the ad-hoc visibility formula for LDN and LBN
• Improved the sight opportunities when artificial satellites are passes (LP: #907318)
• Changed behaviour of coloring of orbits of artificial satellites: we use gray color for parts of orbits, where satellite will be invisible (LP: #914751)
• Improved coloring and rendering artificial satellites (include their labels) in the Earth shadow for both modes (LP: #1436954)
• Improved for landscape and lightscape brightness with/without atmosphere. Now even considers landscape opacity for no-atmosphere conditions.
• Reduce Milky Way brightness in moonlight
• Enhancement of features in Telescope Control plugin (LP: #1469450)
• Removed all references to QDeclarative
• Removed meaningless extincted magnitude data in infostring if objects are below horizon
• Restore drawing corona of the Sun during total solar eclipse (LP: #1435065)

v0.12.6

Release notes:

Released 2015-05-01

The seventh release in the 0.12 series: minor bug fix release.

v0.13.3

Release notes:

Released 2015-04-25

The Stellarium development team after 3 months of development is proud to announce the third correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.13.x - version 0.13.3. This version contains over 30 closed bugs and includes some wishes and new nice features - like visualization of the 3D landscapes and extra DSO catalogs.

Changelog:

• Added Scenery3D plugin: enable support 3D landscapes
• Added ArchaeoLines plugin: a tool for archaeo-/ethnoastronomical alignment studies
• Added new DSO catalogs: Barnard (B), Van den Bergh (VdB), Sharpless (Sh 2), H-α emission regions in the Southern Milky Way (RCW), Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae (LBN), Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae (LDN), Collinder (Cr) and Melotte (Mel)
• Added tiny visual improvements for info about comets and minor planets
• Added Hungarian translation for Aztec skyculture
• Added Russian translation for Western: H.A. Rey skyculture
• Added support of meteors for Windows/MSVC packages
• Added patch for multiscreen setups
• Added tui/tui_font_color option for change color of text user interface (LP: #1421998)
• Added new version of GCVS
• Added implementation of polinomial approximation of time period 1620-2013 for DeltaT by M. Khalid, Mariam Sultana and Faheem Zaidi (2014); http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/480964
• Added new line on the celestial sphere - opposition/conjunction longitude (LP: #1377606)
• Added texture for Ceres (LP: #1271380)
• Extended list of proper names for deep-sky objects
• Fixed position of Great Red Spot (LP: #490019)
• Fixed bug in planet shadow shasder (LP: #1405353)
• Fixed flickering Moon problem (LP: #1411958)
• Fixed jittering moons (LP: #1416824)
• Fixed visibility objects on distance over 50 AU. (LP: #1413381)
• Updated the Spherical projection to be HiDPI aware. (LP: #1385367)
• Restore unit testing for refraction and extinction. Fixed issue in unit test for DeltaT and fixed small issue for DeltaT.
• Fixed issue in core.setObserverLocation (to a new Planet travels always 1 second) (LP: #1414463)
• Fixed issue for cursor, who points to a wrong position after orbit update (LP: #1414824)
• Fixed ignore the Enter key for online search dialog within Solar System Editor plugin (LP: #1414814)
• Fixed package issue for Windows XP (LP: #1414233)
• Fixed crash when trying to select a satellite with invalid orbit (LP: #1307357)
• Check of updates has been removed (LP: #1414451)
• Fixed issues in Search Tool (LP: #1416830)
• Fixed code to update ConfigurationDialog size (LP: #995107)
• Behavior of JD/MJD has been refactored for Date and Time Dialog (LP: #1417619)
• Avoid delaying for the telescope control slew commands over TCP (LP: #1418375)
• Avoid crash when clicking 'Lookup locations on network' checkbox in Locations window (Debian: #779046)
• Updated bookmarks for Solar System editor plug-in (LP: #1425626)
• Allowing display the scope marker below the landscape (LP: #1426441)
• Allow fading of the landscapes without atmosphere (LP: #1420741)
• Allow change thickness of lines of the constellations (LP: #1028432)

v0.13.2

Release notes:

Released 2015-01-20

The Stellarium development team after 3 months of development is proud to announce the second correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.13.x - version 0.13.2. This version contains over 70 closed bugs and includes some wishes and new nice features - like visualization of the zodiacal light and new sky cultures.

Changelog:

• 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|<1 minute, and some code simplification (LP: #1406573)
• Fixed bad UTF-8 characters in tooltips (LP: #1407659)
• Fixed select priority for radiants
• Fixed landscape names translation issue (LP: #1409333)
• Fixed compilation on Windows and on armhf with Qt 5.4 (LP: #1395655)
• Fixed memory leak on Windows x64 (LP: #1406005)
• Fixed cursor timeout restore (LP: #1383047)
• Fixed DSO's markers placement in orthographic projection (LP: #1411882)
• Fixed Moon's glow under horizon (LP: #1409188)
• Fixed wrong visualisation of grids close to "equators" for small FOV (LP: #1400686)
• Update deployment rules for Windows and OS X (LP: #1338020)
• Hide info about type when it not defined for this object of solar system (LP: #1404189)
• Improved look for Date and Time Dialog and fixed show Julian Dates - it show now JD instead a CJD (LP: #1398775)
• Meteors don't be visible without enabled atmosphere now
• Made an exclusion for moons with chaotic period of rotation (LP: #1393083)
• Reducing the number of compass marks to those on screen to improve performance (LP: #1307444)
• On returning to home position, display atmosphere and fog only if configured in config file (LP: #1391074)
• Change default settings for Windows installer: added removing cache at install of the planetarium for avoiding "missing disk in drive " problem. (LP: #1371183)
• Translation of names of the celestial bodies moved to stellarium-skycultures
• Changes in style of displaying of "celestial names" in cultures
• Language of the cultures now can be chosen in GUI
• Changes in detection of OpenGL availability
• Extend the 'restore to original FOV' feature for sensor mode also (LP: #1398890)
• Re-implemented viewing/flag_constellation_pick option to allow select single constellation only (LP: #1401745)
• Set hint visibility threshold for planets and comets to 5mag below sky limiting magnitude. (LP: #1402188)
• Updated scripting documentation (LP: #1402200, #1402224)
• Fit more realistic magnitude of the Moon for the case of lunar eclipse (LP: #1306811)
• Avoid overly bluish Milky Way.
• Extend TNO's classification
• Avoid crash for satellites with not valid orbits (LP: #1408580)
• Improvement for showing names of the stars and fixed couple typos in GCVS
• Actualize TLE's
• Minor fix for space ship translation
• Reduce minimal FOV to 5 arcsec (LP: #807841)
• Restore location settings via CLI (LP: #1409898)
• Hide and remove satellites with invalid orbits
• All relative dates in Scripting Engine are set without DeltaT correction (LP: #1310009)

Plus we added few fixes for typos and fixes for avoiding compilation warnings (LP: #1394814, #1395193)

v0.12.5

Release notes:

Released 2015-01-10

The sixth release in the 0.12 series: release with the backport some features from the series 0.13.

v0.13.1

Release notes:

Released 2014-10-19

The Stellarium development team after 3 months of development is proud to announce the first correcting release of Stellarium in series 0.13.x - version 0.13.1.

Changelog:

Bugfix release with few new features.

• Added: Light layer for old_style landscapes
• Added: Auto-detect location via network lookup.
• Added: Seasonal rules for displaying constellations
• Added: Coordinates can be displayed as decimal degrees (LP: #1106743)
• Added: Support of multi-touch gestures on Windows 8 (LP: #1165754)
• Added: FOV on bottom bar can be displayed in DMS rather than fractional degrees (LP: #1361582)
• Added: Oculars plugins support eyepieces with permanent crosshairs (LP: #1364139)
• Added: Pointer Coordinates Plugin can displayed not only RA/Dec (J2000.0) (LP: #1365784, #1377995)
• Added: Angle Measure Plugin can measure positional angles to the horizon now (LP: #1208143)
• Added: Search tool can search position not only for RA/Dec (J2000.0) (LP: #1358706)
• Fixed: Galactic plane renamed to correct: Galactic equator (LP: #1367744)
• Fixed: Speed issues when computing lots of comets (LP: #1350418)
• Fixed: Spherical mirror distortion work correctly now (LP: #676260, #1338252)
• Fixed: Location coordinates on the bottom bar displayed correctly now (LP: #1357799)
• Fixed: Ecliptic coordinates for J2000.0 and grids diplayed correctly now (LP: #1366567, #1369166)
• Fixed: Rule for select a celestial objects (LP: #1357917)
• Fixed: Loading extra star catalogs (LP: #1329500, #1379241)
• Fixed: Creates spurious directory on startup (LP: #1357758)
• Fixed: Various GUI/rendering improvements (LP: #1380502, #1320065, #1338252, #1096050, #1376550, #1382689)
• Fixed: "missing disk in drive " (LP: #1371183)

v0.13.0

Release notes:

Released 2014-07-19

The Stellarium development team after 9 months of development is proud to announce the release of version 0.13.0 of Stellarium.

Changelog:

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.

v0.12.4

Release notes:

Released 2013-09-28

This release contains solution for one serious bug and an one new feature.

Changelog:

Bugfix release.

• fixed crash Stellarium when enabled binoculars in the Oculars plugin (LP: #1222742);
• added render nighttime landscapes without lighting (LP: #1223052)