Stellarium/stellarium v0.21.2

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The installers are located in the "Assets" section at the end of these release notes!

A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs!

Release notes

The major changes of this version:

• Annual aberration correction. Planet positions are finally very accurate!
• Bookmarks replaced by Observation Lists
• Politically neutral geonames
• Right-click opens plugin configuration
• Improved computation of rising, transit, setting times
• "Goto next twilight" functionality
• Two new Greek skycultures
• Updated Mul-Apin skyculture with new artwork
• Improved fidelity of Lunar eclipses
• Fixed display of stellar proper motion
• Many fixes in core and plugins

Change log

Full list of changes:

• Added a twilight altitude setting and twilight-finding actions to StelObjectMgr (GH: #1852, #484)
• Added extraString capabilities to StelObjectMgr (GH: #1852)
• Added missing time zones
• Added 2 new greek skycultures (GH: #1850)
• Added unit tests for JPL DE440/DE441 ephemeris
• Added greatest digression to Infostring (GH: #1885)
• Added constellation info for AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added tooltip for AstroCalc/WUT tool
• Added barium stars filter for Search and AstroCalc tools
• Added option to toggle the method of drawing Sun's corona (GH: #971)
• Added support right click for buttons (GH: #1843)
• Added alternative definition of elongation (GH: #1786)
• Added support of geographical regions (politically neutral toponyms) (GH: #1844, #1808, #1135, #1125, #894)
• Added tooltips to list of skycultures in the GUI
• Added support the annual aberration (GH: #1626, #1272, #1115, #84)
• Added custom max fov stop (GH: #1836)
• Added DeltaT output in seconds for Scripting Engine
• Added Observing lists feature (GH: #1816)
• Added unobvious behavior for selection the celestial body when Graphs tab is opened
• Added extra data for satellite into GUI of Satellites plugin (GH: #1785)
• Added new language: English (India)
• Added ability of displaying number of exoplanets in the system near designation of host star
• Added support minimum altitude for Rise/Transit/Set times in AstroCalc/WUT tool (GH: #1089)
• Fixed visual style of the magnitude output data
• Fixed rendering graphs when the AstroCalc/Graphs tab is closed (GH: #1852)
• Fixed coordinates for NGC 2379 (DSO Catalog v3.13)
• Fixes and improvements of backward compatibility layer for support the regions and countries
• Fixed displaying the proper motion data (GH: #1787)
• Fixed empty items in Search/Lists tool for stars
• Fixed proper motion data in AstroCalc/Positions tool (GH: #1787)
• Fixed HiDPI issue for GUI of Scenery 3D plugin
• Fixed displaying meteor showers search dialog (GH: #1854)
• Fixed drawing spiky halo for Solar system bodies (GH: #1805)
• Fixed behavior of the Online Query plug-in button (GH: #1806)
• Fixed WS-2020-0368 issue in zlib (GH: #1807)
• Fixed search stars by additional English names
• Fixed translations for splash screen (GH: #1817)
• Fixed location of CR 36 (Collinder 36) (GH: #1827)
• Fixed crash Online Query Plug-in (GH: #1821)
• Fixed distanes for PGC galaxies (GH: #1922)
• Fixed computation of max elevations in AstroCalc tool
• Changed Observability plugin: disabled RTS display in the plugin to avoid duplicate the data (GH: #1852)
• Changed the core: added better solutions to RTS (rise-transit-set times) for fixed objects and planets (GH: #1852, #554)
• Changed core: enabled nutation for -4000...+8000 for better comparison with reference solutions
• Changed behaviour of AstroCalc/Graphs tool: the AstroCalc/Graphs/Graph tool now can work on Earth only (GH: #1925)
• Changed behaviour of AstroCalc tool: Inhibit updates when dialog invisible (GH: #1920)
• Updated the behaviour of the GUI in Search Tool: force focus on entry line when recalling (GH: #1874)
• Updated the behaviour of the AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: exclude outdated solar system objects (GH: #1880)
• Updated descriptions of sky cultures
• Updated GUI of the Satellites plugin
• Updated QXlsx library
• Updated Stellarium User Guide
• Updated list of locations
• Updated list of languages
• Updated list of geographical regions
• Updated list of planetary nomenclature
• Updated default catalog of pulsars
• Updated common names of DSO
• Updated common names of the stars
• Updated boundaries in Chinese skycultures (GH: #1919)
• Updated translations
• Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: improve the performance of computations (GH: #1910)
• Updated AstroCalc/Phenomena tool: avoid lots of computations (GH: #1904)
• Updated Solar System Editpr plugin: better intuitive sorting of MPC list by padding (GH: #1835)
• Removed few Chinese dialects/languages: we will keep only zh_CN, zh_SG, zh_HK and zh_TW locales for Chinese
• Removed outdated translations
• Removed list of countries (GH: #1844, #1808, #1135, #1125, #894)
• Removed Bookmarks feature (GH: #1816)
• Removed the duplicate for Tr 2 cluster

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