Stellarium 0.19.1 Released with A Large List of Changes

Free-software planetarium Stellarium 0.19.1 was released today with numerous bug-fixes, updates, and improvements.

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.

The official Stellarium Ubuntu PPA has made the new release packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 19.04.

1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut or by searching ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stellarium/stellarium-releases

Type user password (no asterisk feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.

2. Then upgrade Stellarium from an existing release with Software Updater utility:

Or run following commands to install the software for the first time:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install stellarium

Uninstall:

To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:

sudo apt-get remove --autoremove stellarium

And remove the PPA via “Software & Updates” utility under Other Software tab.

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