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Back to the wonders of the night sky and how to enjoy them while we still can.
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When you take a laptop under the skies, battery life is often a concern. The latest ARM based processors allow much long battery life than previous CPU gemerations.
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Thanks to a laptop donation from Microsoft we now could finalize our adoption of the Windows for Arm64 platform. Especially telescope support should now work stable together with the ASCOM7 platform.
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You may be able to work with a lighter battery pack and less cables now. A little caveat: currently our build pipelines do not provide the latest Qt versions, so the Arm64 build lacks support for
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You may be able to work with a lighter battery pack and less cables now. A little caveat: currently the build pipelines available to us do not provide the latest Qt versions, so the Arm64 build lacks support for
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the internal webbrowser of the OnlineQueries plugin (section \ref{sec:plugins:OnlineQueries}) and also speech output (section~\ref{sec:gui:configuration:speech}). We hope this issue will go away in the next months.
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On the desktop, Stellarium has become the de-facto most relevant simulation environment for cultural astronomy,
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Stellarium can now display multiple linguistic variants of constellation and star labels, can show ``single star constellations'' and ``dark constellations''
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formed by dust clouds in the Milky Way, can properly identify Morning and Evening star, and for those cultures where it is relevant,
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illustrate the zodiac and lunar stations or lunar mansions in various culture-dependent versions, and some more.
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The ever-growing number of skycultures has been brought to a new order, structured by geographic regions. Authors can now define those regions as polygons on a map.
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(We aim at supplying those polygons for the existing skycultures over the next few releases.)
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The creation of new skycultures is supported by a new plugin, the Sky Culture Maker (SCM) described in section~\ref{sec:plugins:SCM} which guides you through the process in wizard style.
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All details of the new format can be found in chapter~\ref{ch:SkyCultures}.
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And we welcome a new contributor who finally got involved! Atque developed a simple plugin which shows a window full of buttons four our many time stepping commands
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which were previously only accessible when assigned to hotkeys (section~\ref{sec:plugins:TimeNavigator}).
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We have so many of these commands that it is hard to find a good key layout, though, so it was up to you to configure your favourite subset.
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We have so many of these commands that it is hard to find a good key layout, though, so until now it was up to you to configure your favourite subset.
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For easy access to these functions, this plugin is very welcome.
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He also implemented dynamic scaling for the Moon, which means a visually enlarged Moon which is so useful for wide-angle views eventually takes its natural size when zooming in,
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