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  1. The Stellarium team did it. Stellarium 1.0 is here!

    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.

    What is new for users?

    • A new, much better skylight model (Not for MacOS and OpenGL ES2 systems, sorry.)
    • Many details around eclipses
    • Updated Observation List features
    • New features in AstroCalc tool
    • HiDPI improvements
    • Better dithering
    • Able to use Windows location service (Windows)
    • New skyculture: Samoan
    • Updated several skycultures
    • Updates in Angle Measure, Satellites, Oculars, Remote Control, Pulsars plugins
    • Many more bugfixes.

    A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs, and especially contributed in development!

    Clear Skies!

    Alexander and Georg

    Full list of changes:

    • 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
       
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  2. On 19/09/2022 at 17:25, Gfamily said:

    As you can see, S&T.org predict the minimum at 22:19 UTC, whereas Stellarium is giving a time almost 4 hours earlier.

    Is it possible that Stellarium is giving the time of the start of the next dip rather than the actual minima? 

    No, but the start date and period may be different. Sorry, I didn't check the latest data from GCVS for Algol.

    P.S. Stop! @Gfamily what about your time zone?

  3. 9 days ago we released version 0.22.2 of Stellarium.

    The major changes of this version:
    - Added recognition licenses for skycultures
    - Many improvements in the Satellites plugin, esp. display of earth shadow and filtering
    - Improvements in AstroCalc: graphs, eclipses, transits
    - Improvements in Meteor Showers, Exoplanets and the Navigational Stars plugins
    - Updated DSO catalog
    - Fixed ANGLE mode for some rare cases
    - A large number of bug fixes and closed feature requests and enhancements (see full list of changes).

    Behind the scenes, we are preparing for a major upgrade of the internal Qt framework.

    Enjoy!

    Alexander Wolf and Georg Zotti

    Download binary packages for Windows, Mac and Linux you may here: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/releases/tag/v0.22.2

    Full list of changes:
    - 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)

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  4. The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.21.3.

    The major changes of this version:
    - Better handling of minor bodies with outdated orbital elements
    - "Goto next day at same altitude" functionality for selected objects
    - Mark a few special points on the planets
    - Three refined Arab skycultures
    - Updated Mul-Apin skyculture with new artwork
    - Improved OnlineQueries and Satellites plugin
    - Fixed a problem with LX200 telescopes
    - Many fixes in core and plugins

    There has also been a large number of bug fixes and closed feature requests and enhancements (see full list of changes).

    Enjoy!

    Download binary packages for Windows, Mac and Linux you may here: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/releases/tag/v0.21.3
        
    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)

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  5. On 13/12/2021 at 16:28, Phillips6549 said:

    Thanks.  That confirms my experience too.  Anything which is using OpenGL is now broken.

    Just as well I have another machine on which to run Stellarium 🙂

    Security Update 2021-008 for Catalina should resolve the problem.

  6. On 30/11/2021 at 23:20, Phillips6549 said:

    Hi Alexander

    Are you aware of any compatibility issues with MacOS 10.15.7?

    When I start Stellarium it gets to the splash screen (as far as initialising colour scheme) then just closes. 

    I was originally running 20.4 and this issue started only after a MacOS upgrade from 10.15.6 to 10.15.7

    21.2 does exactly the same.

     

    I've sent an error report to Apple as it is clearly something they have done in the MacOS upgrade which is causing the problem but, honestly, I don't expect they will do anything about it!

     

    Keep well

    Mark

    Please see https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/issues/2048 and https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/discussions/2066

    The issue related to buggy changes in Intel GPU drivers in update 19H1519 and touches many OpenGL applications. 

  7. 2 days ago we released version 0.21.2 of Stellarium.

    The major changes of this version:
    - Annual aberration correction. Planet positions are finally very accurate!
    - Bookmarks replaced by Observation Lists
    - Politically neutral geonames
    - Right-click opens plugin configuration
    - Improved computation of rising, transit, setting times
    - "Goto next twilight" functionality
    - Two new Greek skycultures
    - Updated Mul-Apin skyculture with new artwork
    - Improved fidelity of Lunar eclipses
    - Fixed display of stellar proper motion
    - Many fixes in core and plugins

    Download binary packages for Windows, Mac and Linux you may here: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/releases/tag/v0.21.2

    Full list of changes:
    - 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
     

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  8. The Stellarium team are delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.21.1.

    The major changes of this version:
    - Updated designations of stars and handling of list of designations and common names those stars
    - Updated Almagest and al-Sufi skycultures
    - Many changes in plugins
    - Many fixes in core and plugins for support HiDPI devices
    - Enhancements in visualization of markings and in scripting engine

    There have also been a large number of bug fixes and closes feature requests and enhancements (see full list of changes).

    A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs!

    Enjoy!

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  9. Today we released version 0.21.0 of Stellarium.

    The major changes of this version:
    - We have finally completed our work on accurate planet axes, including Lunar libration
    - Visualisation of Earth shadow for Lunar eclipses
    - Better texture for the Lunar surface
    - Added the latest algorithms for planet magnitudes
    - Enhanced Calendars plugin
    - Replaced "arabic" by more accurate "al-Sufi" skyculture
    - Planets are now scalable and Solar glare switchable for didactic applications

    We have also published a scientific paper about the application of Stellarium in cultural astronomy: https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.17822

    Download binary packages for Windows, Mac and Linux you may here: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/releases/tag/v0.21.0
        
    Full list of changes:
    - 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

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  10. On 05/03/2021 at 16:28, izubiaurre said:

    But now I have another question:

    should I apply the number of days (and hours and minutes) since J2000.0 times the drift to calculate the final RA and Dec for the given date within the activity days? Or, it is calculated for the first date and the drifft it is added for the rest of the dates until the end of the activity? 

    This is very good question! We compute coordinates of radiants for valid range of activity from RA/Dec (J2000.0) and drift values to get the correct location of radiants (please compare to official maps: https://www.imo.net/files/meteor-shower/cal2021.pdf). Outside valid range of activity we just place radiant in location of first day of activity, but this is of course not correct by astronomical reason and correct by didactic reason (we mark location of radiant, but people will no see meteors).

     

     

  11. Yesterday we released version 0.20.4 of Stellarium.

    The major changes of this version:
    - Added Calendars plugin
    - Many changes in AstroCalc tool and core of Stellarium
    - Many changes in plugins
    - Updated DSO catalog 
    - Removed Compass Marks plugin (the feature moved into core)

    Download binary packages for Windows, Mac and Linux you may here: https://github.com/Stellarium/stellarium/releases/tag/v0.20.4

    Thank you very much to community for bug reports, feature requests and contributions!

    Full list of changes:
    - 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)

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  12. On 02/10/2020 at 00:56, Ruud said:

    It's just that the menus and print on the screen are quite big now. See zipped screenshot. If Stellarium had it's own user interface scaling option that would be wonderful.

    Please check Stellarium directory in Start menus ;)

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