Stellarium is a complete virtual planetarium with more than 120.000 stars, planets, constellations.and incorporates a navigation system fully customizable. With only 10 MB, you will have all the sky in your computer and a different way to look at the stars on your screen. Package note; stellarium-0.19.3.tar.gz: Stellarium 0.19.3 for UNIX/Linux (source code). MD5: 2de84da8a22e3ad8f83a5b SHA1.
Direct ASCOM support for Telescope Control plugin on Windows
Refactoring the GUI
Many improvements in the code
Added many DSO textures
Improvements in DSO catalog
Many improvements in AstroCalc tool
Thank you very much to community for bug reports, feature requests and contributions!
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)
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)
Many improvements in the codeA huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs!
Full list of changes:
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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 Western (Sky & Telescope) skyculture (GH: #562)
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
Added new MIME type for Stellarium scripts (for UNIX/Linux systems)
Added wrapper for Stellarium’s website
Added support XLSX files (GH: #555)
Added visual style for headers of columns in XLSX files
Added option to sort results in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #521, #560)
Added visual style for headers of columns in XLSX files
Added support double clicks on the sky (selecting + centering objects)
Added scripting function to allow targetting Galactic coordinates
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)
Fixed updating Satellites at startup (GH: #542)
Fixed separation value for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool for oppositions
Fixed opening XLSX files in the modern Microsoft Office
Fixed black screen shot in night mode (GH: #534)
Fixed TeX style for scripts (GH: #570)
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