Stellarium v0.22.0 has been released!

The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.22.0.

The major changes of this version:

• AstroCalc: Eclipse Finder
• AstroCalc: RTS (Rises, Transits, Settings)
• Switch from Bortle scale to physical brightness values for light pollution.
• Allow tweaks for the atmosphere brightness/color model and tone mapping
• Several new calendars in the Calendars plugin
• Seasonal polar caps on Mars
• New and improved sky cultures
• Larger textures allowed in Scenery3D
• Improved OnlineQueries and Satellites plugin
• Many fixes in core and plugins.
• Technical preparations towards a major upgrade of the internal Qt framework.
• There has also been a large number of bug fixes and closed feature requests and enhancements (see full list of changes).

Enjoy!

Full list of changes:

• Added ability to search satellites by COSPAR ID
• Added ability to support multi supergroups for satellites
• Added checks for valid UTF-8 sequence for SS [ssystem*] files (GH: #2146)
• Added 2 startup shortcuts for linux distros (GH: #2129)
• Added GUIs for tweaking some atmosphere parameters and better understand how these things work together (GH: #2085)
• Added ability switching between Preetham and Schaefer for sky brightness (CIE Y channel) (GH: #2085)
• Added ability switching between 2 presets of chromaticity parameters (Preetham/Stellarium) (GH: #2085)
• Added ability coupling extinction coefficient and atmosphere turbidity (GH: #2085)
• Added an exponential twilight transition to Preetham zenith luminance (GH: #2085)
• Added a flag to suppress atmosphere scattering rendering. Just keeps atmosphere refraction and extinction effects (GH: #2085)
• Added ability tweaking atmosphere: allow solar halo drawing before or after 3d solar sphere (GH: #2085)
• Added ability tweaking atmosphere: allow rendering the Sun after the atmosphere (avoid overbrightening, but may look too dark) (GH: #2085)
• Added GUI to fine-tune viewing environment (tone mapping) (GH: #2085)
• Added scripting functions to modify tone mapping settings (GH: #2085)
• Added color conversion to AdobeRGB (not only sRGB). This may give better screen colors on some systems. (GH: #2085)
• Added ability moving StelDialogSeparate to a separate screen (GH: #2132)
• Added human readable format for coordinates of planetary features (GH: #2158)
• Added support decimal coordinates for planetary features (GH: #2158)
• Added Akan (ak), Karelian (krl), Montenegrin (cnr) and Serbian (Latin) (sr@latin) languages support
• Added Lunar Eclipses to Astronomical calculations (GH: #2190, #407)
• Added actions to centering screen on current telescope position (GH: #1956)
• Added proper name for LBN 437
• Added proper name for Stock 2 cluster (GH: #2207)
• Added actions to quick choose of presets for the selected object information (GH: #2206)
• Added Modified Espenak & Meeus (2006, 2022) solution for DeltaT (GH: #2340)
• Added support alternative names (designations) for exoplanets (GH: #2350)
• Added texture for an interesting distorted galaxy NGC 2146 in Camelopardalis
• Added setting of screenshot dpi
• Added New and Astronomical Hindu Calendars (GH: #2284)
• Added Hindu Panchang (GH: #2284)
• Added 60-year-cycle to Tibetan calendar (GH: #2284)
• Added configurable text color (GH: #2284)
• Added mistakenly removed parentheses to the regex (GH: #2324)
• Added Egyptian (Dendera) sky culture (GH: #2329)
• Added Zulu sky culture (GH: #2329)
• Added 2 asterisms: Medium Bull & Minor Bull
• Added Persian Astronomical calendar (GH: #2229)
• Added nowruz to both Persian calendar versions (GH: #2229)
• Added French Revolution Calendar (astronomical version) (GH: #2229)
• Added Tibetan Calendar (GH: #2229)
• Added functions from CC:UE chapter 14 on astronomical functions (GH: #2229)
• Added proper name for CTB 1 (Abell 85) nebula
• Added boundaries to Arabic Lunar Stations skycultute (GH: #2222)
• Added support of seasonal polar caps on the Mars (GH: #2220, #2040)
• Added Revised Julian Calendar into Calendars plugin (GH: #2214)
• Added support heliocentric ecliptic positions of the major planets into AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #2233)
• Added Solar Eclipses to Astronomical calculations (GH: #2218, #407)
• Added missing timezone for Nuuk (GH: #2140)
• Added column “Visibility conditions” to the lunar eclipses
• Fixed typos in Satellites plugin
• Fixed Stephenson, Morrison & Hohenkerk solution for DeltaT
• Fixed Stephenson & Houlden (1986) algorithm for DeltaT
• Fixed rendering gravity labels on HiDPI devices
• Fixed rendering gravity labels of compass
• Fixed nomenclature longitudes (GH: #2158)
• Fixed synonyms in DSO names
• Fixed clazy warnings for plugins and core
• Fixed translation the column names in AstroCalc/WUT tool when language is changed
• Fixed jumping to position in search window (GH: #2205)
• Fixed entering geographical coordinates (GH: #2209, #2210)
• Fixed crash on exit when Telescopes tab of Oculars is active (GH: #2103)
• Fixed bug in Meteor showers search dialog (GH: #2356)
• Fixed list of languages
• Fixed typos in sky cultures
• Fixed potential selection bug in AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Fixed visual properties for AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Fixed bug in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool for local solar eclipses when total/annular eclipses take place very close to the horizon (GH: #2345)
• Fixed decimal longitude in AstroCalc/Eclipses tool (GH: #2323)
• Fixed coordinates of few open clusters (DSO Catalog v3.14)
• Fixed crash on start when Calendars plugin not loaded. (GH: #2287)
• Fixed parsing of decimal degrees in AngleSpinBox::stringToDouble() (GH: #2249)
• Fixed light pollution node in TUI (GH: #2253)
• Fixed StelLocationMgr.cpp:parseAngle for negative fractional-degree angles (GH: #2255)
• Fixed reading location from CLI (GH: #2254)
• Fixed planetocentric rectangular coordinates (GH: #2244)
• Fixed R&D solution of DeltaT (GH: #2229)
• Fixed galactic and supergalactic longitudes range in Scripting Engine (GH: #2219)
• Fixed bug in the Hebrew calendar (GH: #2153)
• Fixed errors in Arabic sky cultures
• Fixed computation of rise, transit and set times for the Moon (GH: 2228)
• Fixed alignment for headers in tables
• Fixed security issues: updated jQuery and jQuery UI (GH: #2234, #2235, #2236)
• Fixed bug in AstroCalc/Eclipses where type of local solar eclipses are incorrect (GH: #2237)
• Fixed wrong range of galactic and supergalactic coordinate systems (GH: #2219)
• Changed the languages support: refactoring the code for ISO-639 codes support
• Changed the core: refactoring the code for get angular size of objects (GH: #2180)
• Changed the GUI: compactification of the GUI (GH: #2199)
• Changed AstroCalc/Transits tool: The AstroCalc/Transits tool has been converted to AstroCalc/RTS tool, where RTS is meaning “rises, transits and sets” (GH: #2283)
• Changed regexp in the comets data parser (GH: #2281)
• Changed core: pass Sun, Moon and current planet objects as well as location directly to Atmosphere::computeColor (GH: #2257)
• Changed core: enable multisampling for landscape too (GH: #2260)
• Changed core: switch from Bortle class to luminance as the quantity of light pollution (GH: 2179)
• Updated Arabic sky cultures: renaming sky cultures (GH: #2212)
• Updated Babylonian (MUL.APIN) sky culture
• Updated rules for guessing the groups of satellites
• Updated GUI of Satellites plugin
• Updated default list of TLE sources
• Updated International Designator info for satellites
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated list of known versions MSVC++
• Updated logger for macOS
• Updated translations
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated core: replace deprecated QLinkedList by std::list
• Updated core: refactor cardinals (GH: #2352)
• Updated core: refactor qflags (GH: #2351)
• Updated GUI: Improve usability of light pollution display in landscape description (GH: #2296)
• Updated GUI: Prevent negative length of day (GH: #2332)
• Updated labels in Calendars plugin
• Updated defaults for Calendars plugin (GH: #2284)
• Updated Scenery3D plugin: Extend shadowmap/cubemap resolution options
• Updated list of proper names (GH: #2316, #2319, #2320)
• Updated order of star designations
• Updated shape of asterism “Taurus Poniatovii”
• Updated locations database, nomenclature and common names for DSO (GH: #2262, #2268, #2274, #2280, #2282)
• Updated build instruction
• Updated GUI for AstroCalc/Eclipses tool: allow years before 1582 (GH: #2224)
• Removed default GRS solution (GH: #2187)
• Removed radio frequencies from getInfoMap() method