Stellarium v0.21.1 released

The Stellarium team are delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.21.1.

The major changes of this version:

• Updated designations of stars and handling of list of designations and common names those stars
• Updated Almagest and al-Sufi skycultures
• Many changes in plugins
• Many fixes in core and plugins for support HiDPI devices
• Enhancements in visualization of markings and in scripting engine

There have also been a large number of bug fixes and closes feature requests and enhancements (see full list of changes).

A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs!

Enjoy!

Full list of changes:

• Added ability to handling Stellarium scripts by file extension on macOS
• Added disabling the proportional DSO hints in Oculars plugin in eyepiece mode (GH: #1572)
• Added ability to get the lunar eclipse magnitudes through scripting (GH: #747)
• Added new plugin: OnlineQueries (GH: #355, #962)
• Added marker of the center of Earth’s shadow (GH: #1687)
• Added workaround to displaying labels for umbra and penumbra (GH: #1560)
• Added an attempt to fix the misplaced location on the planet map (GH: #1026)
• Added tool to toggle visibility of intercardinal (or ordinal) directions and secondary intercardinal directions
• Added scriptable method for panning the view a predetermined amount (degrees per seconds)
• Added option for toggle place of the measurement’ visibility for Angle Measure plugin (GH: #1708)
• Added actions to intercardinal and secondary intercardinal points
• Added support proper motion for pulsars
• Added code to recognition 3 new groups of satellites: IRNSS, TDRSS and QZSS
• Added 2 new methods into scripting engine
• Added a splitter in the satellite tab in the Satellites plugin (GH: #1696)
• Added a reminder in the Description box in the Satellites plugin (GH: #1696)
• Added ability to load an “old” telescopes (GH: #1651)
• Added single asterism selection mode (GH: #541, #921)
• Added meteor shower code/ID to search result table (GH: #1663)
• Added support untranslatable names (like designations) for stars and DSO (skycultures)
• Added 3 new scriptable methods into ConstellationMgr class
• Added few new DSO textures
• Added cosmetic fix for long list of designations for stars: split the data on few lines
• Added cosmetic fix for long list of proper names for stars: split the data on few lines
• Added scriptable methods for isolated selection of asterisms by the name (GH: #541, #921)
• Added version number in file name for extended DSO catalog to improve data handling (GH: #1433)
• Added missing ability to saving and loading values for ‘Draw only polygon’ and ‘Thickness of line in pixels’ options (LP: 1923489)
• Added backward compatibility layer for scripting engine for search and select operation
• Added scaling factor for line thickness on HiDPI devices (GH: #1618)
• Added new nomenclature for Solar system bodies
• Added computation shadow phenomena (Transits of shadow and eclipses) for planets with moons in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1563)
• Added context for second name of beta Gemini to avoid conflict with constellation name (GH: #1599)
• Added carbon stars filter for Search and AstroCalc tools (GH: #1583)
• Added section “Moons of first body” into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #1563)
• Added Polar Circles into ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #1555, #1573)
• Added two custom altitude lines into ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #1573)
• Added ability to grabbing declination/azimuth/altitude data from selected object into ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #1573)
• Added ability to direct selection of locations from Stellarium’s location list into ArchaeoLines plugin (GH: #1573)
• Fixed correctly saving sensor rotation angle (GH: #1756)
• Fixed sorting hotkeys info in Help window (almost full synced with Keyboard shortcuts editor) (GH: #443)
• Fixed scaling planets and the Sun by viewed through eyepiece (GH: #1578)
• Fixed typo’s in Almagest SC description (GH: #1745, #1746)
• Fixed display cardinal labels when NLS is disabled
• Fixed displaying the native names of planets (GH: #1273)
• Fixed work the method core.setObserverLocation() when planet is not defined (GH: #1749)
• Fixed display of hotkeys (e.g. native look for macOS’ hotkeys) in Help window
• Fixed proper names
• Fixed designation for 2 UMa
• Fixed UI text issue for binoculars in the Oculars plugin (GH: #1738)
• Fixed flip issue for compass rose in the Oculars plugin (GH: #1535)
• Fixed selection the newest added device in Oculars plugin
• Fixed handling of the designations for variable and double stars
• Fixed crash for the OnlineQueries plugin
• Fixed show text in Angle Measure plugin on the HiDPI devices
• Fixed display multiline AKA list for DSO
• Fixed compiling INDILib by MSVC2019
• Fixed crash when any device added into Oculars plugin (GH: #1673)
• Fixed horizontal & vertical flip defect in Oculars plugin (GH: #1535, #1678)
• Fixed bug in scripting engine
• Fixed dead links in Stellarium User Guide (GH: #1694, #1692)
• Fixed tabbing order in the Satellites plugin (GH: #1696)
• Fixed cross-identification data for HIP stars (GH: #1657)
• Fixed visibility of planet labels: the visibility of planet label is depend by extinction magnitude now (GH: #1652)
• Fixed AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: added missing category for compute shadows phenomena
• Fixed HiDPI issues in Script Console
• Fixed show labels in scripts on the HiDPI devices (no need a rewriting scripts for HiDPI monitors)
• Fixed search Hydra as a constellation and as moon in the Bookmarks tool (GH: #1609)
• Fixed logical issue in StelSkyDrawer class
• Fixed displaying cardinals on poles (no cardinals!)
• Fixed mistakes for designations of double stars from Struve’s appendices catalogs (GH: #1604)
• Changing visualization an atmosphere on the Galilean satellites: All Galilean satellites has atmosphere, but too thin of course (pressure at surface lesser 1 Pa), so, let’s turn-off the atmosphere on this moons (GH: #1676).
• Updated AstroCalc tools (GH: #1679)
• Updated GUI of AstroCalc tools
• Updated Almagest SC: use almstars catalogues to improve sky culture (GH: #1647)
• Updated al-Sufi skyculture
• Updated native names of planets
• Updated Help window: added special local hotkeys info (GH: #1679)
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated handling the designations of stars
• Updated Bayer and Flamsteed designations of stars
• Updated Angle Measure plugin: change mouse cursor in angle measure mode (GH: #1698, #1707)
• Updated the installer for Windows: added links to Stellarium User Guide and ANGLE mode of Stellarium on the desktop
• Updated scripts
• Updated default catalogs in the plug-ins
• Updated texture for M51
• Updated list of locations
• Updated Oculars plugin (GH: #1633)
• Updated Satellites plugin: added description for China’s space station and updated default TLE catalog
• Updated proper names of stars
• Updated Russian translations of skycultures description (GH: #1645)
• Updated support the double stars data: added ability to use multiple designations for double stars
• Updated support the double stars data: revised all designations of double stars
• Updated support the double stars data: uses parameters for double stars according to latest WDS data
• Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: Section “Sun, planets and moons” renamed into “Sun, planets and moons of observer location” (GH: #1563)
• Updated ArchaeoLines plugin: replace angle DoubleSpinBoxes by AngleSpinBoxes (supersedes GH: #1447)
• Updated core: added QTextEdit StelProperty connections (GH: #1573)
• Updated core: added property connector code for AngleSpinBox (GH: #1573)
• Updated core: added code for AngleSpinBox to make sure cursor position does not change while mouse-wheeling an angle (GH: #1573)
• Removed the resetting tracking the objects in Oculars plugin (GH: #1680)
• Removed support the config option AngleMeasure/enable_at_startup to avoid automatically enabling the Angle Measure plugin at startup of planetarium (GH: #1698)
• Removed bad URL in Western skyculture info.ini file (GH: #1720)
• Removed support for legacy QGLWidget rendering