Guest Tweedledum Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 (edited) Release notes from Stellarium ;--- The Stellarium development team after 9 months of development is proud to announce the release of version 0.13.0 of Stellarium. This release brings some interesting new features:- New modulated core.- Refactored shadows and introducing the normal mapping.- Sporadic meteors and meteors has the colors now.- Comet tails rendering.- New translatable strings and new textures.- New plugin: Equation of Time - provides solution for Equation of Time.- New plugin: Field of View - provides shortcuts for quick changes field of view.- New plugin: Navigational Stars - marks 58 navigational stars on the sky.- New plugin: Pointer Coordinates - shows the coordinates of the mouse pointer.- New plugin: Meteor Showers - provides visualization of meteor showers.- New version of the Satellites plugin: introduces star-like satellites and bug fixes.- New version of the Exoplanets plugin: displaying of the potential habitable exoplanets; improvements for performance and code refactoring.- New version of the Angle Measure plugin: displaying of the position angle.- New version of the Quasars plugin: improvements for performance; added marker_color parameter.- New version of the Pulsars plugin: improvements for performance; display pulsars with glitches; setting color for marker for different types of the pulsars.- New versions of the Compass Marks, Oculars, Historical Supernovae, Observability analysis and Bright Novae plugins: bug fixing, code refactoring and improvements. There have also been a large number of bug fixes and serious performance improvements. We have updated the configuration file and the Solar System file, so if you have an existing Stellarium installation, we highly recommended reset the settings when you will install the new version (you can choose required points in the installer). Major release to be found here :---- http://www.stellarium.org/ Edited July 19, 2014 by Tweedledum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Thanks Damian, I will be downloading that later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Cheers Damian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 I'm very pleased with this latest Stellarium upgrade. I love the new eyepiece viewing features, and there are lots of other little improvements. Got it in Windows 7 OK, but struggling to install it on Linux (seems to be a major problem installing anything on Linux). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Its far more demanding than previous versions, older systems will struggle. Those running xp may be wise to keep the earlier versions. This is a major release and has some nice new features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peepshow Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 On either this new version or the old one is there any way to highlight all the buttons along the bottom of the screen in daylight times? Also highlighting anything shown in the sky area during the day. It's OK at night when one can see them against a dark background but not in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Pm'd Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Nice one Damian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanthic Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Thanks for the heads up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 I have now loaded it, and it is defo an improvement on the last version, for visual searching the upgraded graphics are a lot more realistic. Nice one Damian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tweedledum Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Hi Martyn, Proper upgrade this time, with some useful features. It will stress xp systems. Cheers Damian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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