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Stellarium 1.2

  -  389.11 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    Stellarium 24.1

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.12 Sierra or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Fabien Chereau / External Link

  • Filename

    Stellarium-1.2-macOS.zip

  • MD5 Checksum

    921da06ec82c52970f94cb4591eaa293

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What's new in this version:

New:
- New projection: Equirectangular (fills the screen)
- Improved rendering of Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and landscapes
- Improved rendering of the Moon
- Improved HiDPI behaviour
- Use Noto as default font
- Added Modern (IAU), Tikuna and Seri sky cultures
- Added Chinese and Bahai calendars (Calendars plugin)

Added:
- support elongation in ecliptic longitude for Pointer Coordinates plugin
- Bahai calendars
- Chinese calendar and derivatives (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese)
- linebreaks to excessively long calendar output lines in Calendars plugin
- new projection: plate carree
- options to allow limiting nomenclature to the terminator zone
- translation hints in Calendars plugin
- names of Vietnamese Solar Terms in Calendars plugin
- support for anisotropic filtering of textures
- context support for proper names of pulsars
- Noto fonts
- new sky culture - Seri
- new sky culture - Tikuna
- new sky culture - Greek (Dante)
- one extra check for updates Satellites
- temporary hook for Qt5-based macOS bundles
- support new archive formats for generator of source packages
- support the Region parameter for skycultures
- indicator of max exposure time for moving objects in Oculars plugin
- new sky culture - Modern (IAU)
- scaling stars on a HiDPI devices
- 4 new sets of navigational stars

Fixed:
- minimum system version for macOS bundle
- typos in the rest of the codebase
- compilation without PCH
- missing translatable text for calendars
- missing signals after changing properties for nomenclature
- properties in the GUI for nomenclature
- the build of SUG on Ubuntu 20.04
- naming: Starlore -> Sky Culture
- man pages for bundle in macOS
- setting versions of packages in Windows
- link to the latest Stellarium User Guide
- checking updates of Stellarium
- context for term
- version numbers for macOS bundle
- wobble of small objects like Callisto or Thebe
- a seam that appears between floor and sides of old-style landscapes when multisampling is on
- planet shader on GLSL 1.00
- loading star names for Hawaiian Starlines SC
- renamed properties (Oculars plugin)
- a few more renamed timezones
- Observer altitude in Satellites plugin
- typos in the src/ subdirectory
- typos in the plugins/ subdirectory

Changed:
- Calendars plugin: Roman Calendar - print years AUC in Roman numerals
- core: switch LandscapeSpherical to fragment-shader-based direction computation
- core: switch LandscapeFisheye to fragment-shader-based direction computation
- core: avoid the seam in spherical landscape for GL<3.3 by sacrificing mip mapping
- core: avoid crash when sky culture ID is wrong
- core: undo extraneous gamma encoded in moon_4k texture
- core: silence Angle shader compilation warnings
- core: rename vectors methods length and lengthSquared into norm and normSquared
- core: remove overrides of StelProjector::project from Stereographic and Hammer projections
- core: reduce the clutter when converting MatXd to MatXf
- core: simplify cloning of Mat4dTransform, maintain equality of transfoMat{,f} up to static_cast
- core: pass a double-precision vector to StelSkyDrawer::postDrawSky3dModel instead of a single-precision one
- core: move initial window resizing logic out of StelGLWidget::initializeGL()
- core: store the flag on whether current OpenGL context is ES in GLInfo
- core: set default GLES float precision in fragment shaders to mediump
- core: add support for loading StelVertexArray into StelOpenGLArray
- core: store vertex to Altitude&Azimuth position conversion matrix in Mat4dTransform
- core: add support for using StelProjector::project analogue in shaders
- core: add a method to compare projections of StelProjector
- core: make MilkyWay project its vertices in a vertex shader instead of doing it on the CPU
- core: add support for using StelProjector::unProject analogue in shaders
- core: render Milky Way calculating view direction per fragment
- core: render Zodiacal light calculating view direction per fragment
- core: don’t try to render a Planet whose textures are not all loaded
- core: load Planet textures synchronously

Updated:
- orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
- the default list of satellites
- the default catalog of exoplanets
- the default catalog of pulsars
- the default list of locations
- list of planetary features
- DSO catalog: LBN 770 and LBN 772 are synonyms and both have coordinates as LBN 771
- DSO names
- Greek (Almagest) SC: a line in CrB added
- Modern and Modern (IAU) SC: typo fixes
- Removed English (India) language

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