Stellarium/stellarium v0.22.2

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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 Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.22.2.

The major changes of this version:

• Added recognition licenses for skycultures
• Many improvements in the Satellites plugin, esp. display of earth shadow and filtering
• Improvements in AstroCalc: graphs, eclipses, transits
• Improvements in Meteor Showers, Exoplanets and the Navigational Stars plugins
• Updated DSO catalog
• Fixed ANGLE mode for some rare cases
• A large number of bug fixes and closed feature requests and enhancements (see full list of changes).

Behind the scenes, we are preparing for a major upgrade of the internal Qt framework.

Enjoy!

Alexander and Georg

What's Changed

Full list of changes:

• Added "type" column to WUT list (GH: #2502)
• Added twilights to the nautical navigation data (GH: #2489)
• Added new visual filter for satellites (GH: #1527, #2060)
• Added group of satellites (Gonets)
• Added "Transits of Mercury and Venus across the Sun" computations for AstroCalc tool (GH: #2477)
• Added new filter for communications satellites
• Added feature to recognise the communications data for satellites
• Added GUI for manual addition of comm frequencies for satellites (GH: #2476)
• Added support inclination classifications for geocentric orbits for satellites
• Added feature to adding and restoring the descriptions of satellites
• Added tool to reset TLE sources in Satellites plugin (GH: #2458)
• Added 'altitude' parameter to custom filter of satellites
• Added option to colored invisible satellites: you can toggle behaviour of colorification invisible satellites now
• Added recognition licenses for sky cultures (GH: #2410)
• Added new names to DSO (GH: #2463)
• Added recognition the standard magnitudes for Starlink and OneWeb satellites
• Added ability to select all satellites in the list by one touch
• Added custom filter for satellites (GH: #2457, #2060)
• Added quick selection buttons for DSO (GH: #2425, #2427)
• Added ability to use time mask for naming of screenshots (GH: #1283)
• Added visualisation Earth umbra and penumbra for satellites (GH: #2451, #2360, #1246)
• Added support directional elongation (GH: #2405)
• Added some Barnard outlines (GH: #2412)
• Fixed saving GRS properties
• Fixed missing meteor showers name (GH: #2492)
• Fixed bugs in planetary transits (GH: #2491)
• Fixed orbit validation for observers
• Fixed selecting items from the recent search in Search tool
• Fixed signal/slot issue in Search Tool
• Fixed wrong selection of object in Search Tool/Lists
• Fixed placement for output data on HDPI devices (Observ. plugin)
• Fixed flickering Lunar halo (GH: #2240)
• Fixed selection ANGLE mode: simplify force-switching to ANGLE mode (GH: #2471)
• Fixed missing translations
• Fixed dead links and phrases in sky cultures
• Fixed filtering issue for satellites and update some defaults
• Fixed description for XMM-Newton satellite
• Fixed guessing the groups of satellites
• Fixed slow down of time when the Moon is selected (GH: #2465)
• Fixed eclipse problem (GH: #2464)
• Fixed conversion tool radToHms(): avoiding possible negative zero for value of seconds (GH: #2460)
• Fixed wrong code in radToHMSStr and radToHMSStrAdapt convertors (GH: #2460)
• Fixed work AstroCalc/(Phenomena and RTS) tools with Qt 5.14+ (GH: #2459)
• Fixed Milky Way texture (GH: #2420, #2421)
• Fixed duplicate for NGC 5504
• Fixed stars info: hiding separation info for double stars with "fake values" (GH: #2429)
• Fixed broken signal/slot in Meteor Showers plugin (GH: #2433)
• Fixed 'Nights above horizon' feature in Observability plugin (GH: #2436)
• Fixed rendering orbits of artificial satellites (GH: #2452)
• Fixed crash when some star catalogues deleted or adding (GH: #2404)
• Fixed opacity/magnitude conflict for objects from Barnard catalog (GH: #2408)
• Fixed possible duplicates of DSO names
• Fixed hourly motion of objects (GH: #2505, #2498)
• Fixed show negative radiant drift in RA for meteor showers (GH: #2504)
• Changed setFullScreen() method (GH: #660)
• Changed infostring data for observers: hided the meaningless data
• Changed Satellites plugin: add improvements for visibility prediction of satellites
• Changed behaviour in Satellites plugin: display satellites and their orbits within selected range of altitudes only when related option is activated.
• Changed behaviour in Satellites plugin: Some specific comm terms from the channel description are translatable now
• Changed AstroCalc/Graphs tools: a full refactoring
• Changed AstroCalc/PC tool: refactoring the graphs
• Changed Exoplanets plugin: refactoring the graphs
• Updated filter 'orbit calculation error' in the Satellites plugin
• Updated pulsars catalog
• Updated list of locations
• Updated meteor showers catalog (GH: #2492)
• Updated default list of satellites
• Updated script for InnoSetup (GH: #2450)
• Updated planetary nomenclature
• Updated communications data for satellites
• Updated DSO catalog (v3.16; GH: #2414, #2473)
• Updated list of description of satellites
• Updated data in Meteor Showers catalog (GH: #2467, #2449)
• Updated GUI in Meteor Showers plugin
• Updated default hint color for satellites
• Updated Meteor Showers plugin (GH: #2416)
• Updated DSO names
• Removed QCustomPlot dependence
• Removed scaling mode from shortcuts for Windows (GH: #2450)

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