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Stellarium 0.12.2dev7 Released

Alexander Wolf — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:42:34 -0000

The Stellarium team announces the 7 testing release of version 0.12.2 of the Stellarium.

Major changes from 0.12.2dev6: new Satellites plugin and improvements for Flamsteed designations of stars.

Download page: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download

Stellarium 0.12.2dev6 is now available

Alexander Wolf — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:26:50 -0000

Stellarium version 0.12.2dev6 for Windows is now available for testing!

Major changes from 0.12.2dev5: fixing bugs and improvement for Ocular plugin, improvements for win64 port, improvements for support of variable stars, improvements for translations.

Download page: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download

Stellarium 0.12.2dev5 is now available

Alexander Wolf — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:53:45 -0000

Stellarium version 0.12.2dev5 for Windows is now available for testing!

Major changes from 0.12.2dev4: fixing bugs and improvement for plugins (Oculars, Quasars, Pulsars, Exoplanets), improvements for DeltaT, improvements for support of variable stars - 6886 variable stars from GCVS with HIP numbers (designation for stars from Hipparcos catalog), improvements for ARM CPU's.

Download page: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download

Stellarium 0.12.2dev4 is now available

Alexander Wolf — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:30:57 -0000

Stellarium version 0.12.2dev4 for Windows is now available for testing!

Major changes from 0.12.2dev3: fixing bugs and improvement for plugins, improvements for DeltaT, initial support of variable stars - more 3000 variable stars from GCVS which have HIP numbers (designation for stars from Hipparcos catalog).

Download page: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download

Stellarium 0.12.2dev3 is now available

Alexander Wolf — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:59:30 -0000

Stellarium version 0.12.2dev3 for Windows is now available for testing!

Major changes from 0.12.2dev2: fixing of bugs and new star names (proper names for Chinese and Western starlores).

Download page: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download

Stellarium 0.12.2dev2 is now available

Alexander Wolf — Sat, 04 May 2013 12:25:22 -0000

Stellarium version 0.12.2dev2 for Windows is now available for testing!

Major changes from 0.12.2dev1: improved of plugins, improved star catalog accuracy, fixing of bugs.

Download page: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download

Stellarium 0.12.1 has been released!

Alexander Wolf — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:42:20 -0000

Release of Stellarium version 0.12.1 is now available.

New features: Caldwell catalog for nebulae, re-packed star catalogs (Hipparcos and Tycho-2), delta-T manager, star magnitude limit control, localization for Windows installer, updates textures of galaxies and nebulae and various small GUI changes. The release candidate has over 30 closed bugs in the core application and plugins.

A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!

We updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, it is possible that you need to reset the settings after you install the new version.

You can download new version from http://stellarium.org or https://launchpad.net/stellarium/0.12/0.12.1 websites (Note: package for Mac OS X will be published later)

Stellarium 0.12.1 Release Candidate 1

Alexander Wolf — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:47:29 -0000

Release candidate of Stellarium version 0.12.1 is now available.

New features: Caldwell catalog for nebulae, re-packed star catalogs (Hipparcos and Tycho-2), delta-T manager, star magnitude limit control and various small GUI changes. The release candidate has over 30 closed bugs in the core application and plugins.

A huge thanks to our community whose contributions help to make Stellarium better!

We updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, it is possible that you need to reset the settings after you install the new version.

This is not a fully stable release and it's not intended for distribution and re-distribution to end users. The RC1 version is
intended for testing only and should be installed only for peoples who don't mind looking for bugs and reporting them.

A package for Windows you can download from here:
for 32-bit: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/0.12/0.12.1/+download/stellarium-0.12.1RC1-win32.exe
for 64-bit: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/0.12/0.12.1/+download/stellarium-0.12.1RC1-win64.exe

Translators can check translations and fix mistakes on launchpad.net Rosetta - https://translations.launchpad.net/stellarium/+translations

Asteroid 2012 DA14 Flyby

Alexander Wolf — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:29:00 -0000

Stellarium team announces first development edition for version 0.12.1. This is not official release but this build has serious fixes for prediction of flyby for asteroid 2012 DA14.

You can download packages for Windows here: https://launchpad.net/stellarium/+download

Stellarium 0.12.0 has been released!

Alexander Wolf — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:46:04 -0000

The Stellarium development team is proud to announce the release of version 0.12.0 of Stellarium.

This release brings some interesting new features:
- New rendering engine (Now you can see shadows on planets surfaces).
- New key-binding engine (Now all key-bindings can be edited).
- Improvements to scripting engine.
- Improvements to DSO
- Improvements to search tool
- Improved accuracy for archaeo-astronomical events

There have also been a large number of bug fixes and GUI improvements. A huge thanks to all community bug reporters.

We are strongly recommended resetting all Stellarium settings if you upgrade your previous installation!

Package for Mac OS X will be published tomorrow.