Stellarium 0.22.2 released

[alexwolf]

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)

Edited July 16, 2022 by alexwolf

[Gfamily]

Hi @alexwolf Can I ask a question about the calculations for the minima of the eclipsing binary star Algol? 

If I use the Sky and Telescope calculator, I get the following date/time for the upcoming minima

However, Stellarium is not giving the same times 

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? 

Thanks 

ETA - I am using v0.22.2

Edited September 19, 2022 by Gfamily

[alexwolf]

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?

Edited October 1, 2022 by alexwolf

[Gfamily]

5 hours ago, alexwolf said:

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?

Based in UK, so UTC+1.

Away from my pc at the moment, don't think it's to do with time zones 

[Gfamily]

4 hours ago, Gfamily said:

Based in UK, so UTC+1.

Away from my pc at the moment, don't think it's to do with time zones 

Now back at PC - Stellarium correctly showing time as UTC+01:00

• Next minimum according to S&T calculator webpage 09:34 UT on 02.10.2022
• Next minimum according to Stellarium 0.22.2  - 2022-10-02 05:46:55 UTC