Stellarium Version 26.1
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium Version 25.4
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium x64 Version 25.4.0
v25.4 $$$Release notes$$$Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.4 for all platforms. This is our final release in 2025 with exciting features and many bug fixes.$$$$$$The major changes of this version:$$$$$$Added initial support of narration$$$Added new sky cultures$$$Many improvements in Sky Culture Maker plugin$$$Many improvements in Core$$$Many updates in sky cultures$$$Thanks to all the developers; testers; and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.$$$$$$Whats Changed$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added new sky culture: Balinese (GH: #4625)$$$Added new sky culture: Indian (Nakshatras) [from Susanne M. Hoffmann with B.S. Shylaja]$$$Added new sky culture: Norse (Edda) [from the German Studies; University of Jena]$$$Added new sky culture: Chinese (Journey to the West) [from two Chinese colleagues]$$$Added initial support of narration (cmake flag ENABLE_SPEECH)$$$Added discovery circumstances for newly discovered comets$$$Added missing timezone$$$Added Latin zodiac in Greek (Dante) sky culture$$$Added Latin zodiac in Greek (Leiden Aratea) sky culture$$$Added Greek zodiac in Greek (Farnese) sky culture$$$Added Greek zodiac in Greek (Almagest) sky culture$$$Added report failures to load textures obtained from network too$$$Added constellation descriptions to Modern sky culture$$$Added VS2026 multi-config section and fix VS2022 statement in BUILDING.md (GH: #4676)$$$Added more logging categories (GH: #4652)$$$Added missing context in Modern sky culture constellation names$$$Added ability to inhibit screensaver in fullscreen via CLI (Windows only) (GH: #4507)$$$Added object type support for custom object$$$Added obj type in search result; indicating SIMBAD result with fetched object types$$$Added all native names to name search (GH: #4608)$$$Added the star Celestial Pigs Eye in Chinese sky culture (GH: #4598)$$$Added Visual Studio 2022 build instructions$$$Added ability to see colored labels for satellites in both modes (GH: #4588)$$$Added polar distance info into InfoMap data$$$Added extinction effect into drawing of satellites (GH: #4585)$$$Added new set of navigational stars (XIX century)$$$Added ability to use polar distance instead of declination in equatorial coordinates (GH: #4571; #4529)$$$Added Nova Centauri 2025$$$Added support for translating separated Constellations section$$$Fixed crash when ENABLE_SPEECH is not defined$$$Fixed typos (GH: #4653; #4646)$$$Fixed structure of many sky cultures$$$Fixed observe magnitude limit (GH: #4633)$$$Fixed discovery circumstances for minor planets$$$Fixed some debug messages with paths$$$Fixed hardware detection in linux/aarch64 (RPi4)$$$Fixed hardware detection in OpenBSD$$$Fixed typo in Babylonian (MUL.APIN) sky culture$$$Fixed checking updates$$$Fixed build with Qt6.10 (GH: #4667)$$$Fixed IPA for Russian Siberian sky culture$$$Fixed GUI issue in Solar System Editor plugin (GH: #4661)$$$Fixed altitude representation in decimal degrees in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #4582)$$$Fixed deleted lines during creation of a constellation end up in the output in Sky Culture Maker plugin (GH: #4593)$$$Fixed Observability Analysis plugin crash (GH: #4618)$$$Fixed start with empty observing list (GH: #4641)$$$Fixed documentation (GH: #4627)$$$Fixed getting screenshot HiDPI scaling on Wayland$$$Fixed bookmarks for minor planets orbital elements$$$Fixed indication satellite in penumbra (GH: #4615)$$$Fixed helplabel font in bottom bar (GH: #4614)$$$Fixed a use after free (GH: #4581)$$$Fixed loading localization in some specific cases (GH: #4605)$$$Fixed translations issue (GH: #4607)$$$Fixed loading star catalogs$$$Fixed setting SkyculturePartition colors (GH: #4575)$$$Fixed reading the setting for enabling abbreviations of constellations$$$Fixed missing config option$$$Fixed tooltip$$$Fixed the positioning of the star Auxiliary Road in Chinese Chenzhuo sky culture (GH: #4576)$$$Fixed description of few scripts$$$Fixed classification issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin$$$Fixed issue in Sky Culture Maker plugin: Drawn con
Stellarium Version 25.4
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium Version 25.3
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium Version 25.3
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium x64 Version 25.3.0
Whats Changed$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added more realistic texture of the Sun (GH: #4517)$$$Added ability to compute time when Sun and Moon at custom altitude in AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4467)$$$Added ability to set minutes before sunrise/after sunset in AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4513)$$$Added ability to handling yesterday/tomorrow in AstroCalc/Almanac tool$$$Added ability to increase cross size in Markings Menu (GH: #4368)$$$Added ability to toggle current time speed to zero and back (GH: #4497)$$$Added ability to select object at rise; transit or set time in AstroCalc/RTS tool (GH: #4472)$$$Added ability to draw graphs (AstroCalc/Graphs) from keyboard (GH: #4471)$$$Added patch for INDI from OpenIndiana
Stellarium x64 Version 25.3.0
Whats Changed$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added more realistic texture of the Sun (GH: #4517)$$$Added ability to compute time when Sun and Moon at custom altitude in AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4467)$$$Added ability to set minutes before sunrise/after sunset in AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4513)$$$Added ability to handling yesterday/tomorrow in AstroCalc/Almanac tool$$$Added ability to increase cross size in Markings Menu (GH: #4368)$$$Added ability to toggle current time speed to zero and back (GH: #4497)$$$Added ability to select object at rise; transit or set time in AstroCalc/RTS tool (GH: #4472)$$$Added ability to draw graphs (AstroCalc/Graphs) from keyboard (GH: #4471)$$$Added patch for INDI from OpenIndiana
Stellarium Version 25.2
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium Version 25.2
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium Version 25.2
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium x64 Version 25.2.0
2025-06-22$$$Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.2 for all platforms. This is our second release in 2025 with exciting features and many$$$bug fixes.$$$$$$The major changes of this version:$$$$$$Many changes in support of sky cultures$$$Added 2 new plugins: Mosaic Camera and Custom Nebula Textures$$$Many improvements in Core$$$Updates in sky cultures (include new one)$$$Thanks to all the developers; testers; and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.$$$$$$Whats Changed$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added ASE URL into OnlineQueries plugin (GH: #4356)$$$Added ability to use constellations and asterism as searched-for object in OnlineQueries plugin$$$Added ability showing a elongation dependent cultural names (moring/evening visibility)$$$Added support zodiac and lunar systems$$$Added code to process abbreviations of constellations and asterisms$$$Added Custom Nebula Textures Plug-in (GH: #4003)$$$Added context for dropdown list in Custom Nebula Textures plugin$$$Added fields for translating planet names$$$Added ability to finetuning use of asterisms by user-defined exclusions$$$Added ability to offset for constellation and Asterism label placement$$$Added ability mix of cultural and common star names$$$Added ability to excluding star names from unwanted references$$$Added context and tooltips for new menu items$$$Added support for Dark Constellations$$$Added new GUI elements (sky cultures)$$$Added adjustments for MinGW compilation (GH: #4311)$$$Added an option to keep image placement on loading a new image in Lens Dist. Est. plugin$$$Added a few more telescopes to Camera Mosaic Plugins (GH: #4264)$$$Added Restore Defaults button in Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4300)$$$Added parallax data in WUI$$$Added Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4005)$$$Added installing libtbb12 package inside of AppImage (GH: #4248)$$$Added skyculture Ruanui sky: Tahiti and Society islands (GH: #4274)$$$Added support of new properties in RemoteControl plugin(GH: #4373)$$$Fixed saving options for zodiac & lunar mansions$$$Fixed context data support for zodiac and lunar systems$$$Fixed font metrics in ArchaeoLines plugin$$$Fixed wrong output size$$$Fixed registry records for Windows installer (GH: #4202)$$$Fixed comet discovery data$$$Fixed a few spelling errors in Mongolian SC (GH: #3913)$$$Fixed data: Harmonize a few constellation/asterism lines (GH: #4304)$$$Fixed description of sky cultures (GH: #3879; #3876)$$$Fixed labeling native/pronounce$$$Fixed extra IPA handling$$$Fixed showing duplicate names in native and translation$$$Fixed screen updates when setting changes$$$Fixed discovery date/name$$$Fixed changes in SolarSystemEditor plugin$$$Fixed searching$$$Fixed DSO name rendering$$$Fixed Qt5.15 building$$$Fixed missing space in front of translated Added$$$Fixed typos in src/core$$$Fixed typos in skycultures/$$$Fixed typos in plugins/$$$Fixed typos in guide/$$$Fixed crash: Restore OpenGL context after initialising StelAudioMgr$$$Fixed issues found by PVS-Studio$$$Fixed configuration when innosetup isnt installed (GH: #4297)$$$Fixed packing sky cultures (GH: #4281)$$$Fixed categories in Linux/UNIX menu (desktop file)$$$Fixed adding new locations (GH: #4257)$$$Fixed issue for custom time zone in Location dialog$$$Fixed numbers in DSO textures file$$$Fixed compiling with Qt 5$$$Fixed building on Windows (GH: #4256)$$$Fixed a warning message$$$Fixed missing negation of a condition (HiPS)$$$Fixed problems with IP-based location lookup (GH: #4253)$$$Fixed minor issues in Mosaic Camera plug-in$$$Fixed one-off assertion bug (GH: #4249)$$$Fixed astrometry tests (GH: #4246)$$$Fixed compiling in macOS when md4c is locally installed package$$$Fixed linking macOS package when md4c is locally installed package$$$Fixed compilation with Qt 6.9$$$Fixed modern asterism TA8$$$Fixed typo in Khoi-San SC$$$Fixed links in documentation (GH: #4260)$$$Fixed calculation the duration of astronomical night (GH: #4381)$$$Fixed localization support in new plugin (GH: #4383)$$$Fixed cmake for Satellites plugin$$$Fixed
Stellarium x64 Version 25.2.0
2025-06-22$$$Glad to announce the release of Stellarium 25.2 for all platforms. This is our second release in 2025 with exciting features and many$$$bug fixes.$$$$$$The major changes of this version:$$$$$$Many changes in support of sky cultures$$$Added 2 new plugins: Mosaic Camera and Custom Nebula Textures$$$Many improvements in Core$$$Updates in sky cultures (include new one)$$$Thanks to all the developers; testers; and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.$$$$$$Whats Changed$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added ASE URL into OnlineQueries plugin (GH: #4356)$$$Added ability to use constellations and asterism as searched-for object in OnlineQueries plugin$$$Added ability showing a elongation dependent cultural names (moring/evening visibility)$$$Added support zodiac and lunar systems$$$Added code to process abbreviations of constellations and asterisms$$$Added Custom Nebula Textures Plug-in (GH: #4003)$$$Added context for dropdown list in Custom Nebula Textures plugin$$$Added fields for translating planet names$$$Added ability to finetuning use of asterisms by user-defined exclusions$$$Added ability to offset for constellation and Asterism label placement$$$Added ability mix of cultural and common star names$$$Added ability to excluding star names from unwanted references$$$Added context and tooltips for new menu items$$$Added support for Dark Constellations$$$Added new GUI elements (sky cultures)$$$Added adjustments for MinGW compilation (GH: #4311)$$$Added an option to keep image placement on loading a new image in Lens Dist. Est. plugin$$$Added a few more telescopes to Camera Mosaic Plugins (GH: #4264)$$$Added Restore Defaults button in Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4300)$$$Added parallax data in WUI$$$Added Mosaic Camera plugin (GH: #4005)$$$Added installing libtbb12 package inside of AppImage (GH: #4248)$$$Added skyculture Ruanui sky: Tahiti and Society islands (GH: #4274)$$$Added support of new properties in RemoteControl plugin(GH: #4373)$$$Fixed saving options for zodiac & lunar mansions$$$Fixed context data support for zodiac and lunar systems$$$Fixed font metrics in ArchaeoLines plugin$$$Fixed wrong output size$$$Fixed registry records for Windows installer (GH: #4202)$$$Fixed comet discovery data$$$Fixed a few spelling errors in Mongolian SC (GH: #3913)$$$Fixed data: Harmonize a few constellation/asterism lines (GH: #4304)$$$Fixed description of sky cultures (GH: #3879; #3876)$$$Fixed labeling native/pronounce$$$Fixed extra IPA handling$$$Fixed showing duplicate names in native and translation$$$Fixed screen updates when setting changes$$$Fixed discovery date/name$$$Fixed changes in SolarSystemEditor plugin$$$Fixed searching$$$Fixed DSO name rendering$$$Fixed Qt5.15 building$$$Fixed missing space in front of translated Added$$$Fixed typos in src/core$$$Fixed typos in skycultures/$$$Fixed typos in plugins/$$$Fixed typos in guide/$$$Fixed crash: Restore OpenGL context after initialising StelAudioMgr$$$Fixed issues found by PVS-Studio$$$Fixed configuration when innosetup isnt installed (GH: #4297)$$$Fixed packing sky cultures (GH: #4281)$$$Fixed categories in Linux/UNIX menu (desktop file)$$$Fixed adding new locations (GH: #4257)$$$Fixed issue for custom time zone in Location dialog$$$Fixed numbers in DSO textures file$$$Fixed compiling with Qt 5$$$Fixed building on Windows (GH: #4256)$$$Fixed a warning message$$$Fixed missing negation of a condition (HiPS)$$$Fixed problems with IP-based location lookup (GH: #4253)$$$Fixed minor issues in Mosaic Camera plug-in$$$Fixed one-off assertion bug (GH: #4249)$$$Fixed astrometry tests (GH: #4246)$$$Fixed compiling in macOS when md4c is locally installed package$$$Fixed linking macOS package when md4c is locally installed package$$$Fixed compilation with Qt 6.9$$$Fixed modern asterism TA8$$$Fixed typo in Khoi-San SC$$$Fixed links in documentation (GH: #4260)$$$Fixed calculation the duration of astronomical night (GH: #4381)$$$Fixed localization support in new plugin (GH: #4383)$$$Fixed cmake for Satellites plugin$$$Fixed
Stellarium Version 25.1
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
Stellarium x64 Version 25.1.0
2025-03-23 $$$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$$$Thanks to all the developers; testers; and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.$$$$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added new star catalogs with Gaia DR3 (GH: #3992)$$$Added ability to set the fading duration for elements of constellations (GH: #4083)$$$Added ability to set the fading duration for elements of asterisms (GH: #4188)$$$Added AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4175)$$$Added support for normal and horizon maps in planetary HiPS$$$Added a warning dialog if ASCOM version is outdated but telescope preconfigured$$$Added constellation boundaries for Babylonian (Seleucid) SC$$$Added short designations for some double stars for easy finding them$$$Added Castor to binary orbital parameters data$$$Added $\zeta$ Her and $\eta$ Oph to binary star orbital data to deal with their stationary companion due to lack of$$$Added $\gamma$ Virginis A and B to binary orbital parameters data$$$Added and updated many nebula textures (GH: #4162)$$$Added support output of native names of constellations$$$Added context for Japanese sky culture (GH: #3966)$$$Added context for constellation names in Modern and Modern (IAU) sky cultures$$$Added message context to chinese star “Added”$$$Added support for extraction of Chinese star names with “Added”$$$Added ability to see the pronounce for native names of constellations$$$Added reference for 14 proper names of stars$$$Added support Venetian language$$$Added ability to copy HTML version of the selection info$$$Added ability to keep “latest selected object” in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #4127)$$$Added filter of showing named DSO only (GH: #4125)$$$Added ability to use absolute path to the logfile (GH: #4027)$$$Added ability to re-select last selected object (GH: #4113)$$$Added a scripting function for RTS with given altitude$$$Added parallax effect (exaggerate parallax) to stars (GH: #4023)$$$Added support for Gaia ID in other functionalities (GH: #4064)$$$Added info for newly discovered comets$$$Added a filter by eclipse type in AstroCalc tool (GH: #4054)$$$Added Export Map button for local solar eclipses too$$$Added SH2-245 as Eridanus Loop (GH: #4046)$$$Added new Chinese sky culture (GH: #4234)$$$Added pronounce and IPA tags in Siberian SC (GH: #4237)$$$Added missing Jupiter in Lokono sky culture$$$Added 0.5 arcmin padding to bounding cap because Saemundsson’s inversion formula is not exact to fix clipping issue at small FOV (GH: #4231)$$$
Stellarium x64 Version 25.1.0
2025-03-23 $$$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$$$Thanks to all the developers; testers; and users who made this release possible with your contributions and feedback.$$$$$$Full list of changes:$$$$$$Added new star catalogs with Gaia DR3 (GH: #3992)$$$Added ability to set the fading duration for elements of constellations (GH: #4083)$$$Added ability to set the fading duration for elements of asterisms (GH: #4188)$$$Added AstroCalc/Almanac tool (GH: #4175)$$$Added support for normal and horizon maps in planetary HiPS$$$Added a warning dialog if ASCOM version is outdated but telescope preconfigured$$$Added constellation boundaries for Babylonian (Seleucid) SC$$$Added short designations for some double stars for easy finding them$$$Added Castor to binary orbital parameters data$$$Added $\zeta$ Her and $\eta$ Oph to binary star orbital data to deal with their stationary companion due to lack of$$$Added $\gamma$ Virginis A and B to binary orbital parameters data$$$Added and updated many nebula textures (GH: #4162)$$$Added support output of native names of constellations$$$Added context for Japanese sky culture (GH: #3966)$$$Added context for constellation names in Modern and Modern (IAU) sky cultures$$$Added message context to chinese star “Added”$$$Added support for extraction of Chinese star names with “Added”$$$Added ability to see the pronounce for native names of constellations$$$Added reference for 14 proper names of stars$$$Added support Venetian language$$$Added ability to copy HTML version of the selection info$$$Added ability to keep “latest selected object” in AstroCalc/Phenomena tool (GH: #4127)$$$Added filter of showing named DSO only (GH: #4125)$$$Added ability to use absolute path to the logfile (GH: #4027)$$$Added ability to re-select last selected object (GH: #4113)$$$Added a scripting function for RTS with given altitude$$$Added parallax effect (exaggerate parallax) to stars (GH: #4023)$$$Added support for Gaia ID in other functionalities (GH: #4064)$$$Added info for newly discovered comets$$$Added a filter by eclipse type in AstroCalc tool (GH: #4054)$$$Added Export Map button for local solar eclipses too$$$Added SH2-245 as Eridanus Loop (GH: #4046)$$$Added new Chinese sky culture (GH: #4234)$$$Added pronounce and IPA tags in Siberian SC (GH: #4237)$$$Added missing Jupiter in Lokono sky culture$$$Added 0.5 arcmin padding to bounding cap because Saemundsson’s inversion formula is not exact to fix clipping issue at small FOV (GH: #4231)$$$
Stellarium Version 24.4
Tool to render realistic skies in real time on the screen
