Updates
Updates on our activities and progress.
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Sky Cultures workshop
Published on September 17, 2023 by Georg Zotti
For years Stellarium has been a popular application for demonstrating and teaching about non-Western constellations. Your great support enables the Stellarium project to announce a workshop around sky cultures and constellation research in...
Stellarium 23.2 is here!
Published on July 3, 2023 by Alexander Wolf
The Stellarium Team has released version 23.2. The major changes of this version:vectorizing the markers of deep-sky objectsupdated the support of locationsadded the discovery circumstances for solar system objectsBehind the scenes, many mo...
Stellarium 1.0 is here!
Published on October 1, 2022 by Georg Zotti
The Stellarium team did it. Stellarium 1.0 is here! What makes this 1.0? · After more than 20 years of development the program is finally accurate enough for historical application.This is the first release based on the Qt6 framework, so th...
Stellarium 0.22.2 is out
Published on July 7, 2022 by Alexander Wolf
The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.22.2. The major changes of this version:Added recognition licenses for skyculturesMany improvements in the Satellites plugin, esp. display of earth shadow and filterin...
Stellarium v0.22.1 has been released!
Published on April 16, 2022 by Alexander Wolf
The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.22.1. The major changes of this version:Added fixed equatorial grid/lineAdded new sky culturesFixed building Stellarium (AppImage)Updated DSO catalogThere has also bee...
Stellarium v0.22.0 has been released
Published on March 27, 2022 by Alexander Wolf
The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.22.0. The major changes of this version:AstroCalc: Eclipse FinderAstroCalc: RTS (Rises, Transits, Settings)Switch from Bortle scale to physical brightness values for l...
Stellarium v0.21.3 released
Published on December 25, 2021 by Alexander Wolf
The Stellarium team is delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.21.3. The major changes of this version:Better handling of minor bodies with outdated orbital elements"Goto next day at same altitude" functionality for selected objec...
Stellarium v0.21.2 released
Published on September 27, 2021 by Alexander Wolf
The Stellarium team are delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.21.2. The major changes of this version:Annual aberration correction. Planet positions are finally very accurate!Bookmarks replaced by Observation ListsPolitically ne...
Stellarium v0.21.1 released
Published on June 24, 2021 by Alexander Wolf
The Stellarium team are delighted to announce the release of Stellarium 0.21.1. The major changes of this version:Updated designations of stars and handling of list of designations and common names those starsUpdated Almagest and al-Sufi sk...
Stellarium v0.21.0 has been released!
Published on March 28, 2021 by Alexander Wolf
March 28, 2020 we released the 45th release of the planetarium with the version number 0.21.0. The major changes of this version:We have finally completed our work on accurate planet axes, including Lunar librationVisualisation of Earth sha...
Stellarium v0.20.4 has been released!
Published on December 28, 2020 by Alexander Wolf
December 28, 2020 we released the 44rd release of the planetarium with the version number 0.20.4. The major changes of this version: Added Calendars pluginMany changes in AstroCalc tool and core of StellariumMany changes in pluginsUpdated D...
Stellarium v0.20.3 has been released!
Published on September 27, 2020 by Alexander Wolf
September 27, 2020 we released the 43rd release of the planetarium with the version number 0.20.3.The major changes of this version:Fixed nutation and, with it, season beginning timesMany changes in AstroCalc tool and core of StellariumMany...
Stellarium v0.20.1 has been released!
Published on April 20, 2020 by Alexander Wolf
April 20, 2020 we released the 41th release of the planetarium with the version number 0.20.1.The major changes of this version:Restore working Stellarium in ANGLE mode on WindowMany changes in scripting engline and Script ConsoleFixes i...
Stellarium v0.20.0 has been released!
Published on March 29, 2020 by Alexander Wolf
March 29, 2020 we released the 40th release of the planetarium with the version number 0.20.0.The major changes of this version:Refactoring and updating the GUIDeep refactoring code, related to Solar systemMany improvements in the code o...
Stellarium v0.19.3 has been released!
Published on December 22, 2019 by Alexander Wolf
December 22, 2019 we released the 39th release of the planetarium with the version number 0.19.3.The major changes of this version:Direct ASCOM support for Telescope Control plugin on WindowsRefactoring the GUIMany improvements in the co...
Stellarium v0.19.2 has been released!
Published on September 29, 2019 by Alexander Wolf
September 29, 2019 we released the second correcting version for series 0.19 and 38th release of the planetarium with the version number 0.19.2.
Stellarium v0.19.1 has been released!
Published on June 22, 2019 by Alexander Wolf
June 22, 2019 we released the first correcting version for series 0.19 and 37th release of the planetarium with the version number 0.19.1.
Stellarium v0.19.0 has been released!
Published on March 28, 2019 by Alexander Wolf
March 24, 2019 we released the 36th release of the planetarium with the version number 0.19.0. The major changes of this version:5 new sky culturesRefactoring the code: many improvements and fixesAdded many DSO texturesMany improvements ...