Stellarium v0.19.3 has been released!

2019-12-22 11:25:00 +0000 by alex-w

The major changes of this version:

Direct ASCOM support for Telescope Control plugin on Windows
Refactoring the GUI
Many improvements in the code
Added many DSO textures
Improvements in DSO catalog
Many improvements in AstroCalc tool

Thank you very much to community for bug reports, feature requests and contributions!

Full list of changes:

Added Vts plugin (GH: #880)
Added Chinese translation for skycultures (GH: #788)
Added support superior and inferior conjunctions for inner planets in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
Added support greatest elongations for inner planets in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
Added compute stationary points in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #789)
Added new groups of objects for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Added magnitudes for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Added brightness limit for planetary nebulae (speed-up for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
Added 2 new functions for AstroCalc/Graphs tool
Added support of connecting line between the ephemeris markers (GH: #758, #805)
Added support skipping of labels for visualization of data into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #758)
Added acknowledgements entry for plugins
Added some more references and acknowledgements for few plugins
Added some DSO textures (GH: #798, #824, #878)
Added new GUI options and tooltips for AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Phenomena tools
Added parallax accuracy info for the stars (GH: #87)
Added new planetary nomenclature
Added selected dwarf and minot planets for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Added error info for distance (taken from parallax)
Added heliocentric speed to Apex markers
Added support of SYNC command for LX200 and NexStar protocols (Telescope Control Plugin) (GH: #667, #727)
Added asteroid (162173) Ryugu and moon Puck (Uranus XV)
Added filters for open/globular star clusters in DSO tab (GH: #841)
Added categories “open star clusters” and “globular star clusters” into AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #841)
Added new type of shape for markers (MarkerMgr/scripting)
Added new option for visualization of ephemeris markers (AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool)
Added tool for smart format dates of ephemeris on the sky (AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool)
Added new option for CCD (switching scaling FOV) in Oculars plugin (GH: #834)
Added option to allow drawing FOV outline for ocular (Oculars plugin)
Added an optional cardinal points to the ocular view (GH: #421)
Added some stars to Chinese skyculture and Chinese contemporary skyculture (GH: #848)
Added option to enable align the crosshair in equatorial coordinate system (GH: #852)
Added option to use one color for info text (overwrite color mode) for all objects
Added ASCOM telescope client into Telescope Control plugin (Windows only) (GH: #761, #406)
Added 2 new config options for developers to build Stellarium package
Added Pinyin transliteration to Chinese sky culture (GH: #867)
Added support display of asterisms and ray helpers for Western (Rey) starlore (GH: #855)
Added tool with keyboard shortcut for deselect the selected object (GH: #857)
Added new tool (AstroCalc/Transits) info AstroCalc window (GH: #872)
Added new option (duration) into AstroCalc/Graphs [Graphs] tool (GH: #874)
Added an optional calculations for perihelion and aphelion of the planets into AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #874)
Added tool to adjustable line thickness of celestial grids and lines (GH: #828)
Added line thickness setting into ArchaeoLines plugin
Added new stars and exoplanets names according to IAU NameExoWorlds
Fixed coordinates for Taldykorgan (Kazakhstan) (GH: #782)
Fixed drawing of Off-Axis Guider (GH: #784)
Fixed wrong rendering FOV through eyepiece when telescope is changed (GH: #211)
Fixed parsing the designation of interstellar objects for MPC online search tool
Fixed compute minutes in low precision case from deciman hours (GH: #792)
Fixed double (mirrored) ephemeris lines in perspective projection (GH: #811, #813)
Fixed exclude moons from compute of greatest elongations and stationary points on non-terrestrial locations (AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
Fixed compute behaviour for “Sun, planets and moons” option on non-terrestrial locations (AstroCalc/Phenomena tool)
Fixed cache problem for compute Moon’s age in some cases
Fixed crash in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool in specific cases (GH: #822)
Fixed displaying obvious wrong distance for stars (GH: #402, #404)
Fixed wrong rendering the screen in night mode with fractional scaling (GH: #827)
Fixed getting revision number for non-release builds when git is not installed or using source tarball
Fixed wrong distances of the clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (GH: #840)
Fixed crash when star catalogs description is updated
Fixed abbreviation of asterism Sudor Ophiuchi
Fixed wrong zooming in Telrad (GH: #832)
Fixed about data for Oculars plugin and updated the version of plugin
Fixed support mirrored cardinals for ocular view
Fixed crash when “gravity labels” is enabled (GH: #847)
Fixed the space char problem for gravity labels
Fixed work scripting functions saveState and restoreState (GH: #849)
Fixed font scaling for text around CCD frame for HiDPI screens
Fixed translation errors in Danish (GH: #865)
Fixed saving of stars twinkle setting (GH: #862)
Fixed crash for saving file in AstroCalc/WUT tool when category of objects is not selected
Fixed obtaining some data for plot graphs in Exoplanets plugin
Fixed DSO catalog (unexsist objects)
Fixed object information text color in eyepiece view at daytime (GH: #858)
Fixed plot for culmination height jumps at daylight saving time (GH: #876)
Fixed crash with negative JDs
Fixed setting the minimum data step for labels in AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool (GH: #871)
Fixed translation issues for Nomenclature
Fixed translation issues for Nebulae
Fixed translation months of activity for the meteor showers
Fixed solar halo drawing issue (GH: #879)
Fixed ASCOM settings translation issue (GH: #881)
Fixed for paths render with orthographic projection (GH: #811)
Fixed wrap-around rendering artefacts for Comet tails in Cylindrical and similar projections
Fixed artefacts in some projections for old-style landscapes (GH: #366)
Fixed Date and Time dialog: set focus on day spinner by default (GH: #886)
Updated outlines for DSO (the data taken from OpenNGC catalog)
Updated TelescopeControl plugin: Attempt to fix protocol mismatches for LX200 (GH: #818)
Updated some DSO textures (GH: #783, #798, #815, #817, #824, #878)
Updated scripting engine documentation
Updated Stellarium User Guide
Updated options for Windows installer (GH: #819)
Updated AstroCalc/PC tool
Updated parallax info string: let’s use milliarcseconds for parallax for whole planetarium
Updated default bookmarks for asteroids in Solar System Editor plugin
Updated default bookmarks for comets in Solar System Editor plugin
Updated the initial steps for newly added minor and dwarf planets into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
Updated rules for including OpenSSL libraries into Windows package (GH: #786)
Updated GUI for Sky and viewing options window
Updated attributes for HDPI support
Updated lunar terminator visibility
Updated ephemeris marker style: it was switched to use new type of shape to balancing the visual style
Updated spectral data for HIP stars from SIMBAD/Gaia data
Updated variable stars data (HIP subset from GCVS 5.1 catalog)
Updated behaviour: hide zodiacal light when whole Solar system bodies are hidden
Updating StelProperty behaviour: allow suppression of a warning when a StelProperty cannot be found - should be used when requesting plugin properties!
Updated AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool: excluding moons from list of celestial bodies (except the moons of current planet) to simplificate.
Removed filter for star clusters from DSO tab (GH: #841)
Removed “star clusters” category from AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #841)