Skychart carte du ciel update#
Skychart carte du ciel driver#

Beware the update of asteroid and comet from the main menu now delete all the old elements data from the database!.Skychart never need to run as administrator but this can break the configuration. Show a warning in window title if running as administrator.The resolution of the background image is now limited to improve the performance if the screen is big or if there is not enough cpu core for processing.Improve magnitude filter for small FOV.

Skychart carte du ciel driver#

INDI server and driver selection is now in the telescope connection box.

Default comet element download is now from.

Allow to lock at the position set from the menu View/Position.

Beware this not work with dash line when printing on Windows because of API limitation.

Option to not filter the bright nebula by magnitude, only by size.

Option to show only the celestial equator line.

Separate label setting for Asteroid and Comet.

Add update menu for Delta T and Jupiter GRS.

Allow per chart observatory horizon profile.

New button to Park/Unpark the ASCOM telescope.

Set observatory coordinates from the telescope GPS, this set a “Telescope” observatory name and not override other settings.

Calendar rise/set are always given to the astronomical horizon. This can be disabled in Setup/Observatory.

Show the object rise and set time relative to the local horizon if a horizon file is loaded.

New mosaic tool to prepare mosaic for image capture application.

Allow to use HNSKY star catalog using the “290” format.

Support for the new GAIA DR2 star catalog.

It is now possible to use a telescope connected to a remote ASCOM Windows computer from Skychart running on Linux or macOS. Add direct connection to Alpaca telescope.Use larger image for big buttons and high resolution screen. New icon for the buttons, better suited for night vision filters.New default interface with only two button bar.The following list the changes since the previous version. You can read more about the installation options on the different platform: A new version 4.2 of Cartes du Ciel / Skychart free software is now available.Ĭartes du Ciel is a free open source planetarium software to use on Windows, macOS or Linux platform.