MX 17 Repository: The Stellarium Thread

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oops wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 5:08 pm
Stevo wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 3:09 pm Stellarium is now updated to 0.18.1 in the test repo, though you can also get it from stretch-backports.
Great, Stellarium is very powerful

... But I can not find into MX repository a lighter astro. app. (like sky map for android, or Celestia)
Celestia (26MB only)
https://celestia.space/download.html
.. Or is an alternative exists into MX ?
Lighter in what way?

Kstars is smaller than Stellarium, but it would pull in KDE runtime libraries if you don't have them.

Google Earth has some planetarium features, too.

If you want the successor to Celestia, Space Engine for Windows will run in Wine if your system meets the requirements, such as a discrete video card with at least 2 GB--that's a lot heavier than Stellarium, too.

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Stellarium Thread

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Stevo wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 5:32 pm...
Lighter in what way?

Kstars is smaller than Stellarium, but it would pull in KDE runtime libraries if you don't have them.
Google Earth has some planetarium features, too.
In fact Stellarium is OK , in the past I had probably Stellarium too but with a small data-base (or splitted in two part, I do not remember) (now 136MB)
htps://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/astronomie
... So no need to add into MX repository an other app. just for me.
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oops wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 6:09 pm
Stevo wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 5:32 pm...
Lighter in what way?

Kstars is smaller than Stellarium, but it would pull in KDE runtime libraries if you don't have them.
Google Earth has some planetarium features, too.
In fact Stellarium is OK , in the past I had probably Stellarium too but with a small data-base (or splitted in two part, I do not remember) (now 136MB)
htps://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/astronomie
... So no need to add into MX repository an other app. just for me.
We also have the lighter branch of Stellarium-qt4 in our test repo...

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Thank you again Stevo for your help and information ... in fact, I have installed the standard's one version and it's fine.
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oops wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 5:08 pm
... But I can not find into MX repository a lighter astro. app. (like sky map for android, or Celestia)
Celestia (26MB only)
https://celestia.space/download.html
.. Or is an alternative exists into MX ?
Cartes du Ciel (https://www.ap-i.net/skychart/en/start) does work great on MX, though it's not in the repository. I've used it when I had a computer that didn't meet the requirements for Stellarium, and I still favor it. It does everything I want, including some things I couldn't quite figure out in Stellarium, like simply finding sun and moon rise and set times and eclipse dates. It may not be as flashy as Stellarium, but seems more professional to me (but that may be more of a feeling than a fact).

The betas have always worked great for me (https://sourceforge.net/projects/skychart/files/0-beta/). I just install from the .deb, you just have to install the libpasastro package first as it tells you at the bottom of the page

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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Stellarium Thread

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Hello,
Thank you JeffA ... Now I remember than I have already use it in the past (Cartes du Ciel in french), with an old PC too ... thank you for the link.
Have a nice day.

skychart_4.1.1-3763_amd64.deb (~37MB only)
and
skychart_4.1.1-3763_i386.deb (~37MB only)

So (for Stevo), can be a nice alternative into the MX repository.
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Re: MX 17 Repository: The Stellarium Thread

#17 Post by Stevo »

We now have the latest Stellarium 0.18.3 in our main repository. Changes in this release include:
Improvements and fixes for AstroCalc tool
Added new sky cultures
Added many DSO textures
Refactoring the GUI
Many improvements in the code A huge thanks to the people who helped us a lot by reporting bugs!
A full list of changes and improvements can be see in the release notes.

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Updated to 0.19.0 in the main repo. Highlights include:
  • 5 new sky cultures
  • Refactoring the code: many improvements and fixes
  • Added many DSO textures
  • Many improvements for Scripting Engine

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Updated to 0.19.1 in the main MX 17/18 repo. Some notable changes:
  • Allow to search an inactive meteor showers in Search Tool/Lists tool
  • Added ‘Azimuth vs. Time’ graph into AstroCalc/Graphs tool
  • Added feature to show tracks for latest several selected planets
  • Added tools for jumping to the next or previous time of rising, transit or setting for selected object.
  • Added hour angle and sidereal time to infomap.
  • Updated DSO textures, planetary nomenclature, list of asterisms.
  • Numerous fixes and other updates.

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Updated to 0.19.2 in the main repository. Changes include:
Added support DMS and DD formats for parallactic angle feature
Added 2 new scripts (Saturnian and uranian analemmas)
Added ‘k Pup’ designation to star HIP 37229
Added a new skylore for Stellarium: Anutan
Added “observers” for all planets with moons
Added 3 new actions
Added Vanuatu (Netwar) skyculture
Added few asterisms
Added few new DSO textures
Added support Vec3d into scripting engine
Added a Messier Marathon script
Updated planetary nomenclature
Enabled scaling fonts on High DPI monitors

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