Stellarium

What's new in this version:

Added:
- new star catalogs with Gaia DR3
- ability to set the fading duration for elements of constellations
- ability to set the fading duration for elements of asterisms
- AstroCalc/Almanac tool
- support for normal and horizon maps in planetary HiPS
- a warning dialog if ASCOM version is outdated but telescope preconfigured
- constellation boundaries for Babylonian (Seleucid) SC
- short designations for some double stars for easy finding them
- Castor to binary orbital parameters data
- $\zeta$ Her and $\eta$ Oph to binary star orbital data to deal with their stationary companion due to lack of
- $\gamma$ Virginis A and B to binary orbital parameters data
- and updated many nebula textures
- support output of native names of constellations
- context for Japanese sky culture
- context for constellation names in Modern and Modern (IAU) sky cultures
- message context to chinese star “Added”
- support for extraction of Chinese star names with “Added”
- ability to see the pronounce for native names of constellations
- reference for 14 proper names of stars
- support Venetian language
- ability to copy HTML version of the selection info
- ability to keep “latest selected object” in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- filter of showing named DSO only
- ability to use absolute path to the logfile
- ability to re-select last selected object
- a scripting function for RTS with given altitude
- parallax effect (exaggerate parallax) to stars
- support for Gaia ID in other functionalities
- info for newly discovered comets
- a filter by eclipse type in AstroCalc tool
- Export Map button for local solar eclipses too
- SH2-245 as Eridanus Loop
- new Chinese sky culture
- pronounce and IPA tags in Siberian SC
- missing Jupiter in Lokono sky culture
- 0.5 arcmin padding to bounding cap because Saemundsson’s inversion formula is not exact to fix clipping issue at small FOV

Fixed:
- computation of HiPS draw order for planetary surveys
- make sure that HiPS mesh is convex
- change of HiPS tile detalization with zoom level
- searching pot entry with msgctxt
- string comparison for equality
- translability a short name of dataset for DSO textures
- 61 Cygni binary orbital parameter epoch (should be J2016 not J2000)
- truncated StarId
- ignored constellation star ids passed as strings
- application of the aberration effect to the ephemeris markers
- sky cultures naming for 61 Cyg A
- orbit color manipulation
- endless loop in Calendars plugin
- reading star id from “HIP/Gaia DR3 XXX” names
- epoch for boundaries in Chinese (Medieval) sky culture
- designation of double star
- region entries for modern skycultures
- compilation on Windows
- splash screen text positioning on Qt5
- computation of next maximum/minimum light for variable stars
- mismatch between values of Apparent Diameter and Angular Size in AstroCalc/Graphs tool
- modifiers info for slew commands at Macs
- hiccups every few seconds
- positioning of the cardinals
- Qt/OS screen font scaling by fractional factors
- HIP 101769 and HIP 25606 are incorrectly matched to the wrong Gaia ID
- fractional OS scaling support in Wayland
- search faint stars by their id (cross-id)
- tab order in Config dialog
- comments for translators for UI elements
- typos in Modern (IAU) sky culture
- density of star name labels
- oversized angle buttons in Oculars plugin
- missing include for some linux distros (INDI)
- include correct INDI headers
- rendering telescopic asterisms
- orbit rendering: densely sampling orbit of parent planet if on its moon
- wrong data for stars
- false stars
- missing stars
- stellar proper motion
- star selection when big zoom mouse
- checksum for one new star catalog
- constellation line mismatch
- reload skycultures
- crash in Observing Lists: Map index from proxy model back to the source
- telescopic asterisms
- native names into native tags in Anutan sky culture

Changed:
- Changed core: compute position angle and separation of binary stars system
- Changed core: compute 6D astrometry for a few binary star system
- Changed core: Use a glTF-compatible normal map for the Moon
- Changed core: Bind texture to the correct slot when loading it
- Changed core: Limit amount of time taken by texture loading per frame
- Changed core: Remove the limit on thread count
- Changed core: Don’t repeatedly call ssm->getMoon()
- Changed core: Speed up loading of star cross-identification data
- Changed core: Append new additional star names instead of prepending
- Changed core: Use hips_frame and type to determine planet
- Changed core: Take updated parallax into account when drawing marker and search for star selection
- Changed core: Check for star nullptr when loading constellation data in case one of the major star catalog corrupted/missing
- Changed core: Don’t load any high level star catalog if a lower level star catalog is missing
- Changed core: Avoid crash in moving between planets
- Changed core: Suppress output of meaningless coordinates
- Changed core: Handle correctly landscape labels with negative altitude angle
- Changed core: Hide the broken zero horizon
- Changed core: Exclude synchronous texture loads from time limiting
- Changed core: Don’t try to get OpenGL context in StelTexture constructor
- Changed core: Filter HiPS mipmaps
- Changed core: Don’t apply normal/horizon map to surveys
- Changed core: Handle extra * and ? signs at the end of Chinese star number
- Changed core: Try to localize ‘ Added’ with space, since some locales should avoid it
- Changed core: use unsigned char for component in cross-id.cat
- Changed core: switch to use binary format for cross-id file
- Changed core: update star catalogs with astroquery 0.4.9 to improve handling of binary systems and cross-ids
- Changed core: switching to new data format for skycultures
- Changed core: Allow excluding names from unwanted references
- Changed core: Point DSO name path into same (default) set.
- Changed core: Updated list of SIMBAD mirrors in Search Tool
- Changed core: Use commonNameMap instead of iterating over dsoArray
- Changed core: Pre-trim DSO string catalog numbers
- Changed core: Don’t use toUpper, use compare(CaseInsensitive)
- Changed core: Use default DSO names as common names
- Changed core: Enable drawing of single-star constellations and asterisms
- Changed core: Don’t reload common DSO names on each SC load
- Changed core: Don’t reload default DSO names on each SC load
- Changed core: Follow [PM][+-] indicators of constellation edges
- Changed core: Redefine boundaries for modern_* skycultures
- Changed core: Allow arbitrary epochs in Skyculture boundary edge definition
- Changed core: Scale planet label shift properly
- Changed core: Scale solar halo properly
- Changed core: Scale planet halo properly
- Changed core: Scale star halo properly
- Changed core: Base star scaling on screen scale
- Changed core: Handle font size changes in Cardinals
- Changed core: Position InfoPanel taking into account font size ratio
- Changed core: Make line loops and strips continuous
- Changed core: Avoid breaking strict aliasing rules
- Changed core: Set correct light pollution level when location=auto
- Changed core: Handle the case when surface normal looks away from the camera
- Changed core: Reduce HiPS split order when tile width is small
- Changed logger: Better error message for Asterisms
- Changed logger: Print texture size in StelTexture memory usage reports
- Changed logger: Adjust log levels in StelMainView
- Changed logger: Remove “WARNING” word from logged warnings
- Changed logger: Updated level of messages for logger
- Changed logger: Add timestamp and message type to the log
- Changed logger: Direct all StelLogger::init messages to INFO channel
- Changed GUI: Avoid a freeze when loading a list of HiPS surveys
- Changed GUI: Use locale-aware compare for SC list sorting
- Changed GUI: Provide a UI for toggling atmosphere pseudo-mirror
- Changed GUI: Open Surveys tab on right-clicking HiPS button
- Changed GUI: Make it possible to filter surveys by name
- Changed GUI: Add a method to get GUI font size ratio
- Changed GUI: Apply screen scale to DSO outlines too
- Changed GUI: Scale lines according to screen font size
- Changed GUI: Scale splash screen according to font size ratio
- Changed GUI: Simplify background of hecPositionsChartView
- Changed GUI: Scale bottom and left panel buttons according to font size
- Changed InfoString: Don’t write “apparent” when airmass undefined
- Changed AstroCalc tool: A slight changes in time limits for AstroCalc/Ephemeris and AstroCalc/Eclipses tools
- Changed AstroCalc tool: A small speed-up for AstroCalc/Phenomena tool
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: Reactivate building ASCOM with Qt6 (requires ASCOM7)
- Changed Oculars plugin: Apply font size settings to Oculars plugin
- Changed Oculars plugin: Move creation of rotation buttons to a separate function
- Changed Oculars plugin: Fix centering of Ocular panel buttons
- Changed Oculars plugin: Avoid zero-mag Lens
- Changed Satellites plugin: Enforce lastUpdate is stored as UTC

Updated:
- Anutan sky culture
- Greek (Leiden Aratea) sky culture
- Greek (Almagest) sky culture
- Greek (Farnese) sky culture
- Babylonian (Mulapin) sky culture
- Modern (Sky & Telescope) sky culture
- Modern and Modern (IAU) sky cultures: use English terms for English names of constellations
- Chinese skycultures: Use real native Chinese names in skycultures
- core team list: added Henry Leung
- dependencies: INDI has been updated to version 2.1.2.1
- dependencies: QXlsx has been updated to version 1.5.0
- orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
- the default catalog of exoplanets
- the default list of satellites
- default list of locations
- scripting docs
- Stellarium User Guide
- dependencies: CalcMySky has been updated to version 0.3.4
- atmosphere model
- photometry data for satellites
- Stellarium User Guide
- translations
- color of Neptune
- tool for create an AppImage packages
- list of star names
- bookmarks for minor SSO’s in Solar System Editor
- photometry for satellites
- nomenclature data for planetary features
- common names of DSO
- list of languages
- DSO textures
- translations of sky cultures
- discovery circumstances for comets
- Restored sky cultures descriptions mistakenly removed in version 24.3
- Restored description of Maori sky culture

Removed:
- outdated “Starlore” term
- unneeded constellation boundaries data
- useless initializers
- dead URL in OnlineQueries plugin
- 2 sky cultures from standard package
- an outdated warning
- outdated data and code
- remnants of text_texture option
- support 32-bit packages
- Missing Stars plugin