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Stellarium for Mac

Stellarium 0.18.1

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  • Latest Version

    Stellarium 24.3

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.12 Sierra or later

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  • Author / Product

    Fabien Chereau / External Link

  • Filename

    Stellarium-0.18.1.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    529c5be59af865b863865602309f66b3

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What's new in this version:

Highlights:
- Improvements and fixes for Hierarchical Progressive Surveys [HiPS] support
- Updated code of plugins
- Updated code and data
- Updated GPS handling
- Added rise, transit and set times for celestial objects
- Added dithering support

Changelog:
- Added dithering support
- Added filtering for pulsars
- Added option for Telrad
- Added nomenclature for Charon
- Added new time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
- Added support Mandarin Chinese language
- Added support of hi-res screenshots
- Added few small improvements for Quasars plugin
- Added tooltips for color buttons in Pulsars plugin
- Added option to hiding invisible satellites in markers mode
- Added angular size for the estimated values of coma and gas tail for comet
- Added support decimal degrees for size of DSO
- Added improvements for proportional size textures for large DSO
- Added atmospheric mixing and extinction handling to Toast Survey
- Added Korean translation for landscape description
- Added shortkeys for change light pollution
- Added rise, transit and set times for celestial objects
- Added info about duration of the solar day
- Added scripting function to retrieve environment variables.
- Added changeability of magnitude limit for stars through keyboard shortcuts
- Added Korean ISL File and Update iss.cmake
- Added allowing storing script output to absolute path
- Added equatorial radius / diameter info for Solar system bodies
- Added calculation of equatorial rotation velocity for Solar system bodies (except comets)
- Added 2 more lines to ArchaeoLines plugin
- Fixed load the HiPS sources through proxy
- Fixed creating screenshots on retina displays
- Fixed behaviour Macbook's touchpad
- Fixed result of dithering color components with exactly zero tail
- Fixed dithering for OpenGL ES2
- Fixed enabling various lines when Telrad is enabled
- Fixed error in DSO catalogs filter
- Fixed bug when screenshots folder can't be changed via GUI
- Fixed compile with Qt5.10 (Windows/Visual Studio 2015)
- Fixed visibility of splash screen
- Fixed rendering asterisms names
- Fixed editing telescope properties for Telescope Control plugin
- Fixed memory leak of Bayer pattern texture in StelPainter
- Fixed HiPS server requests
- Fixed infotext brightness when planets are switched off
- Fixed crash after customization of absolute/relative scales
- Fixed operational status string for satellites
- Fixed incorrect pair counts in constellationship.fab files
- Fixed color issue for formatting infostring
- Fixed selection in AstroCalc/Positions tool
- Fixed fullscreen toggle on Mac OS X
- Fixed User Agent string for HiPS
- Fixed the SSO isolated trails checkbox
- Fixed a rendering bug with spheric mirror distortion
- Updated behaviour of Toast: lazily creation of the grid
- Updated help of Telescope Control plugin
- Updated HiPS behaviour: try to use caching as much as possible
- Updated user agent string for HiPS browser
- Updated nomenclature list
- Updated main GUI
- Updated GUI of plugins
- Updated Satellites plugin
- Updated GPS handling
- Updated list of contributors
- Updated catalog of pulsars
- Updated behaviour of Search Tool for craters
- Updated Quasars plugin
- Updated format for DSO's size
- [SUG] Updated year for copyright notices
- Updated Korean Star Names
- Updated hyperlinks for DOIs resolver
- Updated CMake rules for Windows/MSVC
- Updated textures
- Updated Scripting Engine: extended behaviour for includes files in scripts
- Updated the code: remove some redundant calls to increase code readability
- Updated the code: replaces foreach macro by C++11 range-based for
- Updated the code: remove gVector, use Vec3d instead
- Updated the code: C++11 auto to replace complicated hand written types
- Updated the code: disable debug logging on OpenGLES mode
- Updated the code: remove the null pointer check after new
- Updated the code: check struct size by using static_assert
- Updated the code: put dwarf galaxies and h400 tables into static array
- Updated the code: call getDecYear in getDeltaTByEspenakMeeus
- Updated the code: remove some new/delete pairs, just use variables on stack
- Updated CMake code: enable persistent usage of C++11 standard for compiling