Stellarium for Mac

Added

• New IAU names since Nov 2025
• IAU star names with only Gaia numbers
• Scripting command for Equation of Time
• territory.geojson data for sky cultures
• Chinese Yuan Dynasty sky culture
• Storage permission request for Android
• A workaround for Intel's garbage GLSL sin & asin
• A new lightweight atmosphere model
• Multiple search path for plugins and data
• Ability translation of designations for axes of celestial coordinate systems
• Util to fetch new orbit data elements from JPL for ssystem_major and updated orbital elements of the moons
• Visualization of star trails
• "Common names" tab into SkyCultureMaker plugin
• Missing part of scripting docs
• A filter to list only enabled surveys
• New plugin: Planes
• Support for zooming the map in Location dialog
• Byzantine calendar into Calendars plugin
• AndroidManifest.xml and an icon
• Support building main executable for Android
• Support for high graphics mode on GLES3
• Hook for AstroCalc/Almanac tool to updating values when the date is changed
• Context for 3 constellation names to avoid conflicts with minor planets names
• Automatic update data after toggling the decimal degrees flag in AstroCalc/Positions tool
• Support for CelesTrak CSV instead of TLE in Satellites plugin
• Byname to constellation information and adjust format to SC editor in Sky Culture Maker plugin
• New time steps for AstroCalc/Ephemeris tool
• Ability to use inex and tritos as periodic cycles
• Gamepad Controller support for Remote Control plugin
• Ability to let SSO's have multiple epochs
• Missing package for qt6-based AppImage
• Improvements for ephemeris visualization
• waitForKeypress() to support Bluetooth remote presentations

Fixed

• InfoString issue
• Blending issue in Satellites plugin
• Exoplanets plugin: Ignore atmospheric extinction when distribution mode is enabled
• Coordinates of Boyden Observatory
• Nebula names in search results
• Grammar in typo reporting sentence in CONTRIBUTING.md
• DSO names
• Showing the distance data in Pulsars plugin
• Error in LocationService in RemoteControl Plugin
• Solar Corona refraction
• Outline data for M20
• Drawing the protractors in Oculars plugin
• Drawing reticle in Oculars plugin
• Old-fashioned config store of dynamic moon scaling
• Asterism reference exclusion
• Build without media
• Windows build with INDI
• Precision of GLSL ES StelProjector project and unproject
• GLSL ES refraction precision
• Logic of survey/model choice
• Saving preferences for TextToSpeech feature
• Compiling with INDI 2.2.2 on NetBSD
• Single-constellation issue in AstroCalc tools
• Null pointer dereference
• Typos
• Rounding issue in Equation of Time plugin
• Scripting docs
• Missing translatable type of object
• Observing list designation column sorting
• Type of comment in the UI file
• Compilation on Android when missing fseeko()
• Compatibility of viewDialog with Qt5
• Missing excludes
• Broken outline shape on the top-left side of the map
• The obtaining of distance in Pulsars plugin according to changes in ATNF Pulsars Catalogues v2.8.0
• Coordinates and altitude of North Georgia Astronomical Observatory
• Compilation of PFNGLMINSAMPLESHADINGPROC on Android
• The WaitForKey script command
• FOV of Trees landscape (fisheye example)
• Calendars plugin: allow playing in dialog while main display is off
• Calendars plugin: improve dialog visibility on Linux
• Tracked object jumps while zooming with viewport offset
• Visibility of progress bar for HiPS after surveys are disabled
• Internal format of dithering texture in GLES
• Shortening names of asteroids
• Build on GLES2-based Qt 6.9.3

Changed

• core: Don't create dithering texture in low graphics mode
• core: Protect the whole jpl_pleph with the mutex
• core: Make planet hint circle better visible again on scaled hiDPI screens
• core: Prevent occasional race condition in SolarSystem::computePositions()
• core: Don't show lunar 'halo' during solar eclipse
• core: Only suppress earth shadow when moon is actually scaled up
• core: Make RTS independent from scaling
• core: A few clarifications in skyculture names
• core: Pass log messages to the default handler on Android
• core: Use a gamma to reduce LW atmo banding on GLESv2 even more
• core: Use default atmosphere as the fallback
• core: Don't use GL_RGBA8 internal format in TextureAverageComputer
• core: Add a fallback for systems without VAO support in TextureAverageComputer
• core: Don't use GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER{,_BINDING} in LW atmo and TextureAverageComputer
• core: Reduce banding of LW atmosphere in GLESv2
• core: Don't try to use RGBA16F FBO in GLESv2
• core: Don't require HighGraphicsFunctions in TextureAverageComputer
• core: Don't use RGBA16F for texture averaging in LW atmosphere
• core: Enable INDI client support on Windows
• core: Move sinh/asinh functions to the global shader prefix
• core: Use highp in all projections' shaders
• core: Project vertices of the Moon on the GPU instead of the CPU
• core: Render the Moon using a proper 3D model
• core: Compute Moon texture coordinates inside fragment shader
• core: Make TextureAverageComputer fully usable in GLESv3
• core: Make TextureAverageComputer check GLES-compatible
• core: Make atmosphere model selectable in GLES mode
• core: TextureAverageComputer: Wrap OpenGL calls in GL() macro
• core: Restore compilation without GUI
• core: Colored trails
• core: Make sure splash screen preserves OpenGL context
• Location dialog: Add a threshold for map clicks
• Location dialog: Use bilinear interpolation for upscaling the map
• Location dialog: Allow panning the map beyond ±180° longitude
• Location dialog: Move map point <-> lon/lat conversion to separate methods
• Location dialog: Don't resize Location dialog map on every paint
• Location dialog: show location filter circle
• Satellites plugin: draw satellites in point mode also in penumbra
• Satellites plugin: Switch to using CSV instead of TLE in default sources
• Satellites plugin: Move unzipping to a separate function
• Satellites plugin: Avoid nested resets of SatellitesListModel
• Satellites plugin: Print out the failing TLE line
• Satellites plugin: Print download error in addition to error string
• Telescope Control plugin: simplify initialization
• Japanese Yasui Map sky culture
• Korean Sky Culture

Updated

• Bali skyculture: Apply image compression
• The default list of satellites
• Default catalog of pulsars
• The default catalog of exoplanets
• The orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
• The list of contributors
• The names of DSO
• The discovery circumstances data for comets and minor planets
• The territory data for 2 Arabic SC
• The default eyepieces reticles in Oculars plugin
• The translations
• The default bookmarks for Solar System Editor plugin
• The planetary features data
• The photometry data for satellites
• The list of groups of satellites
• The ephemeris for Himalia (Jupiter VI)
• Rules for dependencies

Removed

• Deleted constellations from Chinese SC
• Deprecated TimeSpec use for UTC cases in Satellites plugin
• Assertions for quite possible situations