Stellarium

What's new in this version:

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
- mutiple search path for plugins and data
- ability translation of designations for axes of celestial coordinate systems
- util to fetch new orbit data elemets 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
- 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:
- Changed core: Don’t create dithering texture in low graphics mode
- Changed core: Protect the whole jpl_pleph with the mutex
- Changed core: Make planet hint circle better visible again on scaled hiDPI screens
- Changed core: Prevent occasional race condition in SolarSystem::computePositions()
- Changed core: Don’t show lunar ‘halo’ during solar eclipse
- Changed core: Only suppress earth shadow when moon is actually scaled up
- Changed core: Make RTS independent from scaling
- Changed core: A few clarifications in skyculture names
- Changed core: Pass log messages to the default handler on Android
- Changed core: Use a gamma to reduce LW atmo banding on GLESv2 even more
- Changed core: Use default atmosphere as the fallback
- Changed core: Don’t use GL_RGBA8 internal format in TextureAverageComputer
- Changed core: Add a fallback for systems without VAO support in TextureAverageComputer
- Changed core: Don’t use GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER{,_BINDING} in LW atmo and TextureAverageComputer
- Changed core: Reduce banding of LW atmosphere in GLESv2
- Changed core: Don’t try to use RGBA16F FBO in GLESv2
- Changed core: Don’t require HighGraphicsFunctions in TextureAverageComputer
- Changed core: Don’t use RGBA16F for texture averaging in LW atmosphere
- Changed core: Enable INDI client support on Windows
- Changed core: Move sinh/asinh functions to the global shader prefix
- Changed core: Use highp in all projections’ shaders
- Changed core: Project vertices of the Moon on the GPU instead of the CPU
- Changed core: Render the Moon using a proper 3D model
- Changed core: Compute Moon texture coordinates inside fragment shader
- Changed core: Make TextureAverageComputer fully usable in GLESv3
- Changed core: Make TextureAverageComputer check GLES-compatible
- Changed core: Make atmosphere model selectable in GLES mode
- Changed core: TextureAverageComputer: Wrap OpenGL calls in GL() macro
- Changed core: Restore compilation without GUI
- Changed core: Colored trails
- Changed core: Make sure splash screen preserves OpenGL context
- Changed Location dialog: Add a threshold for map clicks
- Changed Location dialog: Use bilinear interpolation for upscaling the map
- Changed Location dialog: Allow panning the map beyond ±180° longitude
- Changed Location dialog: Move map point <-> lon/lat conversion to separate methods
- Changed Location dialog: Don’t resize Location dialog map on every paint
- Changed Location dialog: show location filter circle
- Changed Satellites plugin: draw satellites in point mode also in penumbra
- Changed Satellites plugin: Switch to using CSV instead of TLE in default sources
- Changed Satellites plugin: Move unzipping to a separate function
- Changed Satellites plugin: Avoid nested resets of SatellitesListModel
- Changed Satellites plugin: Print out the failing TLE line
- Changed Satellites plugin: Print download error in addition to error string
- Changed Telescope Control plugin: simplify initialization
- Changed Japanese Yasui Map sky culture
- Changed Korean Sky Culture
- Updated Bali skyculture: Apply image compression
- Updated the default list of satellites
- Updated default catalog of pulsars
- Updated the default catalog of exoplanets
- Updated the orbital elements for minor bodies of Solar system
- Updated the list of contributoirs
- Updated the names of DSO
- Updated the discovery circumstances data for comets and minor planets
- Updated the territory data for 2 Arabic SC
- Updated the default eyepieces reticles in Oculars plugin
- Updated the translations
- Updated the default bookmarks for Solar System Editor plugin
- Updated the planetary features data
- Updated the photometry data for satellites
- Updated the list of groups of satellites
- Updated the ephemeris for Himalia
- Updated rules for dependencies
- Removed deleted constellations from Chinese SC
- Removed deprecated TimeSpec use for UTC cases in Satellites plugin
- Removed assertions for quite possible situations