Stellarium 0.20.0 has been released. Stellarium is a free open source GPL (Free Software Foundation, the GNU General Public License) software, which uses the OpenGL graphics interface for real-time rendering of the sky. Software can simulate the naked eye, binoculars and other small astronomical observation sky, according to time and location in which the observer calculates the position of objects in the sky, the sun, moon, planets, and displays it accurately. You can also draw the constellations, presentation astronomical phenomena such as meteor showers, eclipses and so on.
Stellarium also used as planetarium show teaching software, as amateur astronomers observe stars telescope aided software.
The main changes in version 0.20.0 include:
- Reconstruct and update the GUI
- And the depth of the solar system about refactoring code
- Many improvements plug-in code
Complete list of changes:
- Add the most amazing sky culture
- Added missing translation Ukrainian landscape
- Added information display satellite perigee height / perigee
- Added satellite orbital inclination information display
- INDIGO adds support for Telescope Control plug-in
- Add a tool to extract the release date for its release from the ChangeLog, and updated the list of these documents issued in stellarium.appdata.xml
- Add a special way to refresh Oculars plugin to view CCD property immediately changes
- Adding a user to display the most recently updated TLE
- Added SIMBAD find the name of the query in the search box
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For more details, see the release notes: http://stellarium.org/release/2020/03/29/stellarium-0.20.0.html