Stellarium v0.22.2 has been released!

2022-07-07 15:15:00 +0000 by alex-w

The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.22.2.

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 and Georg

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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