Added context support for proper names of pulsars.Added support for anisotropic filtering of textures (GH: #2881).Added names of Vietnamese Solar Terms in Calendars plugin.Added translation hints in Calendars plugin.Added options to allow limiting nomenclature to the terminator zone (GH: #2790).Added new projection: plate carree (GH: #2856).Added linebreaks to excessively long calendar output lines in Calendars plugin (GH: #2898).Added Chinese calendar and derivatives (Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese) (GH: #2898).

Added support elongation in ecliptic longitude for Pointer Coordinates plugin (GH: #2700).

We are looking for telescope users with programming skills to help us fixing this issue. It seems the TelescopeControl plugin at least on Windows works better in the Qt5-based releases.

Added Chinese and Bahai calendars (Calendars plugin)īehind the scenes, several minor issues were fixed.

Added Modern (IAU), Tikuna and Seri sky cultures.

Improved rendering of Milky Way, Zodiacal Light and landscapes.

New projection: Equirectangular (fills the screen).

This release mostly aimed at fixing issues but also brought a few new features:

add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts.

ability to add new solar system objects from online resources.

plugin system adding artificial satellites, ocular simulation, telescope configuration and more.

Skinnable landscapes, now with spherical panorama projection.

All new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control.

Spherical mirror projection for your own low-cost dome.

Fisheye projection for planetarium domes.

Very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.

Images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue).Constellations for twelve different cultures.Asterisms and illustrations of the constellations.Extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars.Default catalogue of over 600,000 stars.It is being used in planetarium projectors. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

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