Stellarium 0.18.2

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Stellarium key features:

• Realistic simulation of the sky, sunrise and sunset
• Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
• Downloadable additional catalogues for up to 210 million stars
• Catalog data for all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects
• Images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way
• Artistic illustrations for all 88 modern constellations
• More than a dozen different cultures with their constellations
• Solar and lunar eclipse simulation
• Photorealistic landscapes (more are available on the website)
• Scripting support with ECMAScript (a few demo scripts are included)
• Extendable with plug-ins: 8 plug-ins installed by default, including:
• artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database)
• ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular)
• Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC)
• telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible)

The major changes of this version:

• Improvements and fixes for AstroCalc tool and plugins

• Added support Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae and ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas

• Added few new scripts

• Updated code and data

Full list of changes:

• Added GUI improvements for AstroCalc tool
• Added elongation support for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added support decimal degrees format for AstroCalc tool
• Added handle keypressing for list of matching objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added filters for enlisted objects in Search Tool/Lists tool
• Added filters for list of matching objects in AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added new textures for moons
• Added column with angular distance from the Moon into AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added special case for partial solar eclipses in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Added centering text for headers in AstroCalc/Phenomena, AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Positions tools
• Added “clear” button for search of artificial satellites in the selected group (Satellites plugin)
• Added additional context for term ‘Transit’ (GH: #215)
• Added artwork for some Maori constellations
• Added support Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae (Abell, 1966)
• Added distances for some planetary nebulae (DSO)
• Added possibility to select all constellations through scripts and hotkeys
• Added new language (Urdu)
• Added additional level of checks for JSON documents
• Added Lokono sky culture
• Added support to add/subtract calendric month through hotkeys (GH: #232)
• Added support ‘ESO/Uppsala Survey of the ESO(B) Atlas’
• Added processing the 30x HTTP codes for Quasars, Pulsars, Historical Supernovae, Bright Novae, Meteor Showers and Exoplanets plugins (GH: #236, #231, #229, #227, #226, #225, #224, #223)
• Added visual magnitudes and sizes for Abell planetary nebulae
• Added support Milkyway saturation effect (GH: #175, #242)
• Added Henriksson solution (2017) for Schoch formula for DeltaT (1931)
• Added actions (without default hotkeys) to toggle Moon and Minor body scaling
• Added script “Jupiter and triple shadow phenomena”
• Added script “Jupiter without Galilean satellites”
• Added script “Occultations of bright stars by planets”
• Added script “Mutual occultations of planets”
• Fixed sorting rules for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
• Fixed Moon HiPS rendering during eclipse
• Fixed URL of API for “Location from network” feature (GH: #218)
• Fixed some errors in DSO catalog
• Fixed crash in the combination: constellation is selected and sky culture has been changed
• Fixed Earth shadow on scaled Moon during eclipse
• Fixed auto-enabling landscapes when setObserverLocation is call (LP: #1783752)
• Fixed position of Jupiter moons: updated theory to L1.2 (GH: #222)
• Fixed cross-index data issue (DSO)
• Fixed the term for altitude above sea level (GH: #247)
• Fixed desync bug with IAU Constellation and constellation borders (GH: #246)
• Fixed reserved identifier violation issue (GH: #243)
• Fixed trouble with selection priority of nomenclature items for celestial bodies in deep shadow (GH: #239)
• Fixed parsing error in constellation IAU borders lookup (GH: #241)
• Fixed compiler warnings when GPS support is disabled (GH: #240)
• Fixed potential crash for Meteor showers plugin
• Fixed crash (segmentation fault) for sporadic meteors with max ZHR
• [SUG] Fixed bibtex link
• [SUG] Fixed links for HCG data (GH: #212)
• Updated scripts
• Updated behaviour of deselectConstellations() method (LP: #1780951)
• Updated Epimetheus texture
• Updated behaviour of “clear” button for Search and AstroCalc/WUT tools
• Updated list of locations
• Updated list of DSO names
• Updated behaviour of Oculars button on bottom toolbar: hidden by default
• Updated default bookmarks of Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #180)
• Updated script ‘Partial Lunar Eclipse’
• Updated default host for GeoIP service
• Updated the appdata file (GH: #234)
• Updated behaviour of Location dialog: allowed to use resort GPS location at next startup and disable IP query when GPS is used
• Removed support of terrible Qt plural forms

Download: Stellarium 0.18.2 (32-bit) | 188.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Stellarium 0.18.2 (64-bit) | 172.0 MB
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