14 DAY TRIAL // Stellarium 0.12.2, a free open-source planetarium software that displays a realistic and accurate sky in 3D, just like the one that can be seen with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope, has been officially released.
The Stellarium 0.12.2 developers are taking their sweet time between releases, but the delays and the lack of RC versions for Linux can be forgiven if we take into account the features added in the end.
The most important ones are the repackaging of the star catalogs (Hipparcos and Tycho-2), a new scripting engine, a much better search tool, and a new version of the Satellites plug-in.
Users are now able to add new satellites from various sources, but they can also flag the ones that need to be removed or updated.
A complete changelog of Stellarium 0.12.2 can be found in the official announcement. The developers have also recommended that the users reset all Stellarium settings.
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