Stellarium v13.3 released

[damnut]

Stellarium 0.13.3 is a stable version that introduces some new features and closes 33 bug and wishlist reports. A lot of work has been done on adding few new DSO catalogs: Barnard (, 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). In addition, two new plugins are available. One of them introduces an exclusive and very nice feature - 3D landscapes.

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

We updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, we strongly recommend to reset the settings after you install the new version (in the Installer).

Full list of changes:
- Added Scenery3D plugin: enable support 3D landscapes
- Added ArchaeoLines plugin: a tool for archaeo-/ethnoastronomical alignment studies
- Added new DSO catalogs: Barnard (, 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)

[RLWP]

Downloaded and installed - thank you

I notice I still get that message about 'no disk in drive something-or-other' that I have to click cancel several times to get through. Have I installed it wrong?

Richard

[damnut]

Hi Richard,

Thats a new one on me, never had that message. If it works, I would not worry about it! If it does not work drop me a pm with

1. Pc/laptop spec

2. OS version

3. where you are installing

[Paz]

Thanks for flagging this  - downloading.

[RLWP]

PC Spec - what are you looking for?

OS - Windows 7 Professional SP1 32 bit

Install - C:/Program files/Stellarium

Richard

[davefrance]

Thanks for the info, have downloaded. Some interesting changes.

[damnut]

@rlwp. Pmd.

[Davide Simonetti]

Thanks for the information. Just downloaded it now and having a look 

[Guy Wells]

Good stuff.

[JEF]

Thank you.

I feel the need to apologise in advance, but...

A little disappointing to see that according to the Sourceforge page it only has 4.9 stars. I was rather hoping for more

[DaveS]

Got it. On both work (Naughty!) and home computers. Had to update the Nvidia drivers on my works computer as they were OpenGL 1.2 or summat which Stellarium didn't like. No probs now.

I too had the "No Disk" error but it appears to have gone away with the latest install.

The only "bug" I have is the locations database which thinks Ruislip (Where I live) has Bortle 5 skies. If only!   Bortle 8 would be optimistic    .

[red_drag0n]

Mine is crashing each and everytime i run the program ... Like it crashes within a few seconds after opening the program .

I'm using Win 7 64bit . RAM 4GB . Stellarium v 0.13.3

[cathouse42]

I think I will wait on updating then

Nothing really worth it in that change list for me.

[RLWP]

I too had the "No Disk" error but it appears to have gone away with the latest install.

I suspect that I have a start up file from the previous install left hanging around somewhere

Trouble is, I get the minor irritation on start up, then get lost in the delight and wonder of Stellarium and forget to sort the problem out

Richard

[damnut]

@jef,  now been expanded to 7 stars. Either that or your screen needs cleaning .

@RLWP - Please check for any remnants of ssystem.ini files delete & retry.

@red_drag0n  - Have you downloaded the correct version .. Your setup is similar to mine (w7 64 bit 8Gb)..

[estwing]

don't know but down loaded twice and can hardly see the bottom tool bar and my cursor highlights stuff when its about 10mm away?!!

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Thanks for the heads up, the Barnard and Sharpless catalogues will be useful to me. Previously I've struggled to identify some of the nebulae in my images.