Stellarium for Mac

What's new in this version:

Added:
- more realistic texture of the Sun
- ability to compute time when Sun and Moon at custom altitude in AstroCalc/Almanac tool
- ability to set minutes before sunrise/after sunset in AstroCalc/Almanac tool
- ability to handling yesterday/tomorrow in AstroCalc/Almanac tool
- ability to increase cross size in “Markings” Menu
- ability to toggle current time speed to zero and back
- ability to select object at rise, transit or set time in AstroCalc/RTS tool
- ability to draw graph’s (AstroCalc/Graphs) from keyboard
- patch for INDI from OpenIndiana
- new plugin: Sky Culture Maker
- the missing 7 stars in Chinese SC
- ability to show object’s constellation info in InfoString
- Arab Lunar Mansions
- english name as comment to translation of sky cultures items
- code to extract byname and pronounce for translation of sky cultures
- bynames to a few modern skycultures
- byname tag to constellation descriptions for further label refinement
- communication data for some satellites
- groups of communications satellites

Fixed:
- possible dependency problem in linux
- repetition of “modern” label part
- rendering the center of umbra after adding SSO’s
- crash
- crash in AstroCalc/Graphs/Lunar Elongation in debug mode
- star catalog loading on big-endian systems
- decoding packed number
- CSS
- compilation on GCC 9
- infostring
- hardware detection in linux
- hardware detection in *BSD
- unintended rotation by 180° of sky surveys
- type conversions
- few typos in docs
- text errors in two Chinese Sky cultures
- issues in Chinese Song Dynasty Skyculture
- Chinese SC: correct the lines of Ox
- missing “Added” in Chinese names ending in “(In XYZ mansion)”
- typos in Chinese SC
- gravity labels for RTL languages
- search the minor planet by name without number
- ugly display some glyphs in Qt 6.9+
- getting CPU frequency in macOS (Apple Silicon)
- show pixel grid of sensor crop overlay
- formatted output of object info
- HIP number for Menkar in NavStars
- LandscapeFisheye shader in GLSL 1.00 mode
- a few names and trace references
- InfoString with RTL components
- Error message in plugin SkyCultureMaker
- visual bug in Solar System Editor plugin

Changed:
- Changed core: center Zodiac and Lunar Station labels
- Changed core: make sure a Zodiac/Lunar label is visible
- Changed core: don’t break orientation lock when moving location
- Changed core: extended time interval
- Changed core: allow variations in latitude extent of Lunar mansions
- Changed core: reduce labels for Zodiac and Lunar Stations to single components
- Changed core: speedup texture loading when desired frame rate is low
- Changed core: make it possible to choose between multiple planetary HiPS per planet
- Changed core: avoid label position reset
- Changed core: switching to using SourceForge.net CDN as default storage of the stars catalogs
- Changed core: store flagConstellationPick (isolated constellation selection)
- Changed core: undo false optimisation
- Changed core: use exact stars magnitude when there is a artificial cutoff
- Changed GUI: apply screen font scaling to compass marks
- Changed GUI: follow the user selected time format in GUI
- Changed GUI: fix handling of app font change
- Changed GUI: moved few related actions into ‘Scripts’ group
- Changed GUI: avoid disabling checkbox in sky cultures
- Changed GUI: single language box for whole program
- Changed logger: cosmetic fixes for CPU data
- Changed logger: cosmetic fixes - normalization
- Changed logger: limit list of video adaptors by availability

Updated:
- rules for creating an AppImage package
- installer for Windows: added hook for Qt6WebEngine
- standard DSO catalog
- star catalog (level 0)
- icons for macOS
- the list of planetary nomenclature
- default catalog of pulsars
- default catalog of novae
- the default list of satellites
- photometry data of satellites
- the default list of locations
- the default catalog of exoplanets
- the discovery circumstances for comets
- the discovery circumstances for minor planets
- script ‘Messier Objects Tour’
- script ‘Jupiter Moons’
- AstroCalc/Ephemeris GUI: Increase duration from 100 -> 1000 units of time
- standard DSO catalog
- minimal requirements for macOS
- Modern SC: move star name translations to bynames
- Babylonian (Seleucid) SC
- Babylonian (MUL.APIN) SC
- Chinese (Song dynasty) SC
- all Arabic SC
- dependency: upgrading CPM from 0.40.8 to 0.42.0

Removed:
- old edges from Chinese skycultures
- workaround for bug LP:1498616
- double application of nutation in Infostring
- duplicate point in Coma Berenices line in Modern (IAU) sky culture