Stellarium 25.1
Published on April 2, 2025 by Alexander V. Wolf
Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.1 for all platforms. This is our first release in 2025 with exciting features and many bug fixes.
The major changes of this version:
- Switching to using Gaia DR3 catalog (extra catalogues with more than 220 milliones stars)
- Full 6D astrometry (2D sky positions, 2D proper motion, parallax, radial velocity) compute for most bright stars (V<10.5)
- Modelling movement for 15 couples of binary stars
- New powerful data format for sky cultures
- Many improvements in Core
- Improvements in Telescope Control plugin
- Updates in sky cultures (include new one)
- Incorporated whole GCVS 5.1 catalog
- New tool in AstroCalc dialog
Thanks to all the developers, testers, and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.
Enjoy!
Alexander, Georg and Ruslan