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alexwolf

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As you know we use version 0.90.0.xxxx for "unstable binary packages" of Stellarium and those packages may have a new interesting features for testing. In any way version 0.90.0.xxxx has a lot fixes of bugs and it may be interested for users, who are preferred used "bleeding edge" of software.

I've created this topic for informing community about new interesting features for testing for one side, and get a feedback (with reports about problems, of course) from testers-voluteers in other side.

Let's try make Stellarium better by together.

Today we published version 0.90.0.9270 with 3 interesting features:
- support GPS devices to getting coordinates for observer location
- support RTS2 in Telescope Control Plugin
- support to asterisms in skycultures (Alt+A and Alt+V to toggle lines and names visibility)

Binary packages to donwloads (and full list of changes): https://launchpad.net/stellarium/trunk/0.90.0

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Dave In Vermont

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Having just been swamped with software issues - none Stellarium-oriented - I'll pass on this one, Alex. But I used the last one up until  0.15.2 came out officially, and it was wonderful! Thank you and the team!

By the way, I think the expression you were grasping for was "cutting edge" - not "bleeding edge!" :eek:  :D But I think I'll start using "bleeding edge" in the future instead! :p

Thank you for all you do -

Dave

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7 minutes ago, Dave In Vermont said:

By the way, I think the expression you were grasping for was "cutting edge" - not "bleeding edge!"

It is quite common this side of the pond, as a slightly tongue-in-cheek slightly dis-respectful dig at the more posh "cutting edge"

 

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On 4/8/2017 at 12:15, Dave In Vermont said:

By the way, I think the expression you were grasping for was "cutting edge" - not "bleeding edge!" :eek:  :D But I think I'll start using "bleeding edge" in the future instead! :p

I thought that Bleeding Edge was fairly common parlance. Cutting Edge is the latest greatest thing; Bleeding Edge is the next Cutting Edge, but still under development so you often get cut.

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Stellarium 0.90.0.9379 is here already...

The main changes: optimizations in AstroCalc tool, tool for import/export bookmarks, updates names of DSO's, fixed various bugs, added customizable buttons...

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Stellarium 0.90.0.9484 with new sky culture and updated DSO catalog (added Arp, VV and PK data) is available for public testing...

P.S. Stellarium 0.90.0.9484 support an extended and standard editions of the DSO catalog now. The standard edition is included by default and contains over 83000 objects. The extended edition download separately (by hands at the moment) and it contains over one million deep-sky objects.

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6 hours ago, Dave In Vermont said:

Woah! Just when I was planning to sit-tight with the Stellarium-edition I have now (0.15.2), you come up with an offer I can hardly refuse! 1,000,000 DSO's?

Extended edition of Stellarium's DSO Catalog contains 1065799 deep-sky objects in all...

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Dave In Vermont

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Loaded and running it Alex. I dropped the extended DSO catalog in, and it works well, but the warning that it slows down response-time of Stellarium is an apt one. But oh my! What an amazing sight with all the DSO's that are now at our fingertips!

Wow!

From the READ ME:

 

"Stellarium DSO catalog

Version 3.1, extended edition

Standard edition of Stellarium DSO catalog contains the data up to magnitude 15.5
(over 83000 objects). This extended edition of Stellarium DSO catalog contains
the data up to magnitude 19.0 (over one million objects).

Version 3.1 of catalog is used in Stellarium 0.16.0.

WARNING: Stellarium MAY run slow with the extended edition of DSO catalog!"

 

Best Wishes -

Dave

 

 

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8 hours ago, Dave In Vermont said:

I dropped the extended DSO catalog in, and it works well, but the warning that it slows down response-time of Stellarium is an apt one.

Version 0.90.0.9495 should be more resposiable with loaded million DSOs and when DSO is not shown. For FOV 50 degrees and lesser Stellarium has good smooth movements :).

P.S. Of course Stellarium will be slow when all million objects made visible on wide field of view.

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We plan to release Stellarium 0.16.0 around June 21 (at the moment first release candidate was published for the testing of planetarium and translations checking).

This will an another major release with fixes of bugs and a few new important features - another one step to version 1.0. This version has many changes in the GUI and we added many new lines for translation. If you can assist with translation to any of the 140 languages which Stellarium supports, please go to Launchpad Translations and help us out: https://translations.launchpad.net/stellarium
 
If you can help translate description of sky cultures and landscapes on your language then we would be grateful to you for this. You need a create your branch, add 'description.YOUR-LANG-CODE.utf8' files from description.en.utf8 and translate it!
 
You can send translated description.YOUR-LANG-CODE.utf8 files to me for adding in Stellarium also.

Binary packages for Windows/macOS and full list of changes you can find here: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/trunk/0.90.0

Thank you!

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Today we published another snapshot of Stellarium.

List of changes between version 0.16.0 and HEAD (0.90.0.9720):
- Added two notations for unit of measurement of surface brightness
- Added improvement for hide/unhide lines and grids in Oculars plugin
- Added few moons of Saturn (Phoebe, Janus, Epimetheus, Helene, Telesto, Calypso, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Pan) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added few moons of Uranus (Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Ophelia) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added 2 moons of Pluto (Kerberos and Styx) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added code to avoid conflicts for names of asteroids and moons
- Added support of IAU moon numbers
- Added angular size into AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Added option to allow users to choose output formatting of coordinates of objects
- Added optional debug info for HDPI devices
- Added optional calculations of resolution limits for Oculars plugin
- Added new data from IAU Catalog of Star Names (LP: #1705111)
- Added support download zip archives with TLE data to Satellites plugin
- Added link to the Mike McCants' classified TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
- Added link to AMSAT TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
- Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added support 'A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants' (Green, 2014) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added support 'A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies' (Abell+, 1989) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added export the predictions of Iridium flares (LP: #1707390)
- Added meta information about version and edition into file of Stellarium DSO Catalog to avoid potential crash of Stellarium in the future (validation the version of catalog before loading)
- Fixed wrong rendering Neptune and Uranus (LP: #1699648)
- Fixed Vector3 compilation error in unit tests (LP: #1700095)
- Fixed a conflict around landscape autoselection (LP: #1700199)
- Fixed HMS formatting
- Fixed generating ISS script
- Fixed tooltips for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed dark nebulae parameters for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed tool for saving options
- Fixed crash when we on the spaceship
- Fixed Solar system class to avoid conflicts and undefined behaviour
- Fixed orientation angle and its data rendering (LP: #1704561)
- Fixed wrong shadows on Jupiter's moons (Added special case for Jupiter's moons when they are in the shadow of Jupiter for compute magnitudes from Expl. Suppl. 2013 item) (LP: #1704421)
- Fixed work AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool for artificial satellites (a bit slow solution though)
- Fixed search by lists of DSO
- Fixed translation switch issue for AstroCalc/Graphs tool (LP: #1705341)
- Fixed trackpad behaviour on macOS though workaround
- Fixed couple stupid bugs in InnoSetup script
- Fixed morphology for SNR
- Fixed issue in parsing of date format in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Updated InfoString feature
- Updated sky brightness during solar eclipse (really, there are only few stars visible.)
- Updated Maori sky culture
- Updated list of names of deep-sky objects
- Updated selection behaviour in Oculars plugin (avoid selection of objects outside ocular circle in eyepiece mode)
- Updated behaviour of methods getEnglishName() and getNameI18n() for minor bodies
- Updated behaviour of planetarium for support a new format of asteroid names
- Updated behaviour of filters for DSO catalogs
- Updated Solar System Editor plugin (support new format of asteroid names)
- Updated RTS2 telecope driver in Telescope Control plugin.
- Updated API docs
- Updated limit of magnitude for Oculars plugin (Improvements)
- Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool

Binary packages to downloads: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/trunk/0.90.0

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Today we published the first RC of version 0.16.1. Please test this package and report us about finded problems (in this topic or in our bug tracker).

Full list of changes between version 0.16.0 and version 0.16.1RC1 (v0.90.0.9796):
- Added two notations for unit of measurement of surface brightness
- Added improvement for hide/unhide lines and grids in Oculars plugin
- Added few moons of Saturn (Phoebe, Janus, Epimetheus, Helene, Telesto, Calypso, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Pan) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added few moons of Uranus (Cordelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Ophelia) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added 2 moons of Pluto (Kerberos and Styx) with classic elliptical orbits
- Added code to avoid conflicts for names of asteroids and moons
- Added support of IAU moon numbers
- Added angular size into AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Added option to allow users to choose output formatting of coordinates of objects
- Added optional debug info for HDPI devices
- Added optional calculations of resolution limits for Oculars plugin
- Added new data from IAU Catalog of Star Names (LP: #1705111)
- Added support download zip archives with TLE data to Satellites plugin
- Added link to the Mike McCants' classified TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
- Added link to AMSAT TLE data into the default list of TLE sources
- Added support 'The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae' (Acker+, 1992) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added support 'A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants' (Green, 2014) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added support 'A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies' (Abell+, 1989) [DSO catalog version 3.2]
- Added export the predictions of Iridium flares (LP: #1707390)
- Added meta information about version and edition into file of Stellarium DSO Catalog to avoid potential crash of Stellarium in the future (validation the version of catalog before loading)
- Added support of extra physical data for asteroids
- Added support of outlines for DSO
- Added new time step: saros
- Added new time step: 7 sidereal days
- Added more checks to the network connections
- Added support of comments for constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711433)
- Added support for small asterisms with lines by the equatorial coordinates
- Added support for ray helpers
- Added new feature (crossed lines and output string near mouse cursor) to the Pointer Coordinates plugin
- Added missing cross-id data
- Added support an images within description of landscapes
- Fixed wrong rendering Neptune and Uranus (LP: #1699648)
- Fixed Vector3 compilation error in unit tests (LP: #1700095)
- Fixed a conflict around landscape autoselection (LP: #1700199)
- Fixed HMS formatting
- Fixed generating ISS script
- Fixed tooltips for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed dark nebulae parameters for AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed tool for saving options
- Fixed crash when we on the spaceship
- Fixed Solar system class to avoid conflicts and undefined behaviour
- Fixed orientation angle and its data rendering (LP: #1704561)
- Fixed wrong shadows on Jupiter's moons (Added special case for Jupiter's moons when they are in the shadow of Jupiter for compute magnitudes from Expl. Suppl. 2013 item) (LP: #1704421)
- Fixed work AstroCalc/AltVsTime tool for artificial satellites (a bit slow solution though)
- Fixed search by lists of DSO
- Fixed translation switch issue for AstroCalc/Graphs tool (LP: #1705341)
- Fixed trackpad behaviour on macOS though workaround
- Fixed couple stupid bugs in InnoSetup script
- Fixed morphology for SNR
- Fixed issue in parsing of date format in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Fixed link for fileStructure.html file in README (LP: #1709523)
- Fixed the calculation for drawing a reticle on a HiDPI display (Oculars plugin)
- Fixed default option of units of measure for surface brighness to avoid possible artifacts on the macOS (LP: #1699643)
- Fixed crash when comments is added into constellations_boundaries.dat file (LP: #1711229)
- Fixed behaviour of 'Center on selected object' button (LP: #1712101)
- Fixed impossibility to select a planet after Astronomical Calculations is activated (LP: #1712652)
- Fixed crash with unknown star in asterism
- Fixed cross-ids of 42 bright double stars (LP: #1655493)
- Fixed magnitude computation for Jupiter's satellites
- Updated InfoString feature
- Updated sky brightness during solar eclipse (really, there are only few stars visible.)
- Updated Maori sky culture
- Updated list of names of deep-sky objects
- Updated list of asterisms
- Updated selection behaviour in Oculars plugin (avoid selection of objects outside ocular circle in eyepiece mode)
- Updated behaviour of methods getEnglishName() and getNameI18n() for minor bodies
- Updated behaviour of planetarium for support a new format of asteroid names
- Updated behaviour of filters for DSO catalogs
- Updated Solar System Editor plugin (support new format of asteroid names)
- Updated RTS2 telecope driver in Telescope Control plugin.
- Updated API docs
- Updated limit of magnitude for Oculars plugin (Improvements)
- Updated AstroCalc/WUT tool
- Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Updated rules for storing default settings
- Updated rules for computation visibility of DSO hints
- Updated plugins
- Updated default values for material fade-in/fade-out times
- Reduce warnings to one when loading OBJ with non-default w texture/vertex coordinates

Binary packages to downloads: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/trunk/0.90.0

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