Stellarium 9.0 released

[gel]

need i say more?

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

Yes - what improvements have been made?

[mill (Martin)]

Wow!! it got bigger in file size.

[mill (Martin)]

Ok improvements are:

Larger star catalogue including stars from Hipparcos, Tycho2 and NOMAD (much of this available as a separate download)

* New sky cultures: Lakota, Navajo, Inuit, including Inuit constellation art by Johan Meuris

* New projections: Orthographic, Lamberts Equal Area, Cylinder

* Better accuracy of planetary positions

* New orbital calculation class making it possible to add comet objects (no special visualisation yet however)

* Window resizing. Full screen toggle should now work for Windows & OSX

* Fly to planets by pressing control-G when one is selected

* Landscape locations - can set the location according to the landscape

* Places of interest on Earth (city positions improved), the Moon (mission sites) and Mars (mission sites).

* New landscape: Garching, (near Munich, Germany)

* Data file layout change, which should make it easier to install extra landscapes, scripts and so on

* Some new nebula textures; more precise positioning of nebula textures

There have also been a lot of minor bug fixes, and significant changes to the code base, which make it possible for third parties to write their own modules for Stellarium, (although the API is not stable yet).

[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

Thank you for the detailed reply.

[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

Any chance of a link to download? It's not currently listed in the software section on the IIS links page.

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Answered my own question .....

http://www.stellarium.org/

[Ric]

I downloaded it last night, it's fantastic.
It kept me quiet for an hour or so.

Cheers