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Today we released version 0.20.2 of planetarium. Thank you very much to community for bug reports, feature requests and contributions! This is the anniversary version of Stellarium - the project is 20 years old now. Full list of changes: 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] 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 GUI and minor redesign of remaining icons [GUI] (GH: #752, #951) 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 Binary packages you may download at https://stellarium.org website

In version 0.20.0 was added comet ATLAS with error in data - why just you don't update the data for comet through SSE plugin?

In last 10 years Solar System Editor plugin use for edit Solar system bodies in Stellarium

See changes for this: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/commit/3f3422911dc0c69d72389025136c901a88a51651

Today we released version 0.20.1 of planetarium. Thank you very much to community for bug reports, feature requests and contributions! Full list of changes: - 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) Binary packages you may download at https://stellarium.org website

Please check v0.20.0.17814 - https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/tag/beta

Press F1 within planetarium...

Today we released version 0.20.0 of planetarium. Thank you very much to community for bug reports, feature requests and contributions! Full list of changes: - Added Almagest skyculture (GH: #1017) - Added missing Ukrainian translations for landscapes (GH: #891) - Added show an altitude of perigee/apogee for satellites (GH: #910) - Added show an orbit inclination info for satellites (GH: #910) - Added support INDIGO for Telescope Control plugin - Added tool for extract dates of releases with their versions from ChangeLog and update list of these releases in stellarium.appdata.xml file - Added particular refresh method for Oculars plugin to see immediate changes of CCD properties - Added displaying last updated TLE for users - Added a SIMBAD lookup name query to the Search Dialog (GH: #831) - Added the configuration file and shell scripts to translate skyculture and landscape descriptions with po4a (GH: #908) - Added new config and GUI option to change behaviour of focusing on day spinner in Date and Time dialog (GH: #939) - Added context for name an asteroid (849) Ara to resolve translation issue - Added a failure warning for Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #932) - Added Cross-origin (CORS) support to Remote Control plugin (GH: #942) - Added support for CORS preflight request to the Remote Control plugin (GH: #944) - Added a minimum near clipping plane distance: slightly improves rendering of Saturn viewed from Pan (GH: #435) - Added a GimbalOrbit for the "Observer" planets: allows arbitrary viewpoints by keyboard action (GH: #946) - Added new nomenclature items - Added new type of planetary feature - Added automatize for creating Windows installers and signing them (GH: #969) - Added configuring colors for ocular circles, sensor frames and text output in Oculars plugin (GH: #967) - Added a toggle action to switch visibility of Ocular GUI button bar (GH: #964) - Added allowing for assign shortcut for opening the config dialogues of plugins (GH: #964) - Added display references for proper names of celestial object in description of skyculture - Added texlive-fonts-recommended to apt-get install doc (GH: #959) - Added hourly proper motion for planets, minor planets and comets (GH: #957) - Added shortcuts to change GimbalOrbit distance - Added actions for rotate reticles into Oculars plugin - Added modern rotational elements for Solar system objects (GH: #950) - Added linear model in the first approximation for smooth reduce the brightness of Jovian moons for get more realistic look (GH: #979) - Added partitions to the Great Circles (GH: #993) - Added properties for control of line partitions (GH: #993) - Added fixed distinct length for 30, 10, 5, 1 degree marks for partitions (GH: #993) - Added configurable thickness for partitions (GH: #993) - Added German set of navigational stars - Added nautical navigation data for navigation stars (GH: #955, #408) - Added special name for landing location (translatable string "landing site") to avoid using "-" as name and good look - Added comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) as potential superbright comet (a Great Comet) - Added asteroid (101955) Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) with texture (and nomenclature some time early) - Added option to hide Scripts Console at script running - Fixed script for installing asterisms data in Western: Rey skyculture - Fixed typos in sky culture and landscape descriptions (GH: #892, #896, #899, #929, #927, #926, #905) - Fixed restoring star labels state to default value after disabling displaying the Navigational stars data (GH: #898) - Fixed work AstroCalc/Transits tool for pulsars - Fixed displaying proper name and designation of pulsars (the output format was unificate with other objects) - Fixed scaling FOV for CCD with OAG (Oculars plugin) - Fixed resetting zoom level in Oculars plugin when CCD frame is rotation (GH: #895) - Fixed name for M48 (GH: #902) - Fixed CCD rotation issue (GH: #934) - Fixed wrong text placement on center of screen, when vertical offset is defined (GH: #904) - Fixed potential bug for updating standard magnitudes for satellites - Fixed a spurious bad answer in Search Tool (GH: #831) - Fixed location manager for API changes to GPSd 3.20 (GH: #925) - Fixed updating TLE for satellites with leading zeros in ID (GH: #920, #897) - Fixed data formatting for Meteor Showers Search Tool - Fixed selection the meteor shower from Meteor Showers Search Tool - Fixed Corona size on HiDPI screens (GH: #911) - Fixed caching of precession values not being used (GH: #915) - Fixed color conversion for markers of meteor showers from old format - Fixed setting thickness of lines for constellations and boundaries - Fixed jittering labels and moons hints - Fixed the flawed 2013 brightness model for Venus - Fixed manage slider by keyboard in AstroCalc/Graphs[Monthly Elevation] tool (GH: #936) - Fixed crash when observer is on spaceship - Fixed behaviour of draw the trails of planets - Fixed opening User Directory in Script Console if scripts directory into User Directory does not exist (GH: #963) - Fixed crash with the extrainfostrings - Fixed behaviour of Bookmarks highlights: fool protection is enabled (GH: #917) - Fixed enabling a reticle for eyepieces in Oculars plugin - Fixed getting weird data for eclipse magnitude value during transits of inner planets - Fixed viewing Phobos from Mars - Fixed velocity value for KeplerOrbit around planets (GH: #950) - Fixed a few potential problems (CWE-476) - Fixed constellation lines for Babylonian (Seleucid) sky culture - Fixed crash Stellarium, when meteor shower selected and you tried set date to outside the activity range of selected shower (Fix #975) - Fixed crash Stellarium on trying select inactive meteor shower in Search Tool/Lists (Fix #975) - Fixed displaying info for inactive meteor showers - Fixed missing translatable strings for nomenclature data - Fixed the time rate when Solar system body is selected: adjust time resetting for planet proper motion display (GH: #1006) - Fixed GUI issue: switch off true time indicator when scene is paused - Fixed false comet in orthographic projection (GH: #389) - Fixed black rendering of lunar pole (GH: #992) - Fixed hiding the cardinal points on "planetary observers" - Fixed weird axis orientation of the Moon (GH: #974) - Fixed name of a script - Fixed hides data in Ocular plugin: changed the priority level of drawing for Equation of Time and Pointer Coordinates plugins (GH: #987) - Fixed crash when observer is on spaceship and target planet is Solar system minor body - Fixed location info string on bottom bar when observer is on spaceship - Fixed compilation Stellarium on Solaris (Clang 9.0; SunOS 5.11) - Updated set of GUI icons (GH: #804) - Updated list of countries (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) and list of locations (GH: #894) - Updated list of contributors - Updated Ukrainian translation of the sky culture descriptions (GH: #900, #907, #912) - Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin: the color picker button was split into 3 buttons to define separate colors for info, orbit and marker of satellite (GH: #910) - Updated "Save settings" button behaviour: when button "Save settings" are pressed, then emitted signal configurationDataSaved() and all plugins are saved the config data too (GH: #906) - Updated scripts - Updated Scripting Console (GH: #995) - Updated code for Orbit class: combined EllipticalOrbit and CometOrbit classes to KeplerOrbit - Updated list of MSVC versions for StelLogger class - Updated GUI for Oculars plugin and changed focus policy for Oculars GUI buttons (GH: #956) - Updated GUI for Information tab: define new ProperMotion InfoStringGroup flag, and adapt GUI, settings and StarWrapper (GH: #957) - Updated InfoString: improved readability (HTML symbol syntax instead of Unicode char numbers) - Updated GUI and shortcuts info for Oculars plugin - Updated GUI for Script Console - Updated Moon phases info: Restore/sanitize handling of named moon phases (GH: #950) - Updated trails behaviour: when planet is changed the trails should be recreated - Updated trails behaviour: include moons of current planet into planet trails - Updated trails behaviour: allow limitation (early cutoff) of trail length - Updated behaviour for selection of meteor showers in Search Dialog (Ctrl+Alt+M) of the Meteor Shower plugin - Updated default list of TLE sources in Satellites plugin - Updated Korean translations for Windows Installer (GH: #980) - Updated DSO names: synced few names from SIMBAD - Updated the pulsars catalog and tool for generate of JSON catalog from the original data (GH: #989) - Updated SSD: synced the data by JPL HORIZON for some Solar system minor bodies - Removed outdated and abandoned code - Removed code for separate handling hotkeys from Oculars plugin - Removed unnecessary orbit data from Comets and MinorPlanets (GH: #950) - Removed of code repetition (GH: #950) Binary packages you may download at https://stellarium.org website

Hello! In latest beta (v0.19.3.17695 - https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/tag/beta) we signed installer (thanks for SignPath.io) for Windows and now we need testing it. Could you help us check it?

Mark, please check it: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/download/beta/Stellarium-0.19.3.17636.zip

You need INDI or INDIGO on linux

Please see help window in the Telescope Control plugin

Hi! I need help from Mac owners - could you check digital signing and notarization of latest beta of Stellarium - https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium-data/releases/download/beta/Stellarium-0.19.3.17629.dmg ?

You need field stop diameter (not field stop position!).