{"id":7168,"date":"2017-09-23T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T14:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2017-09-23T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T14:43:54","slug":"stellarium-0-16-1-important-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/stellarium-0-16-1-important-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellarium 0.16.1 Released with Important Features (How-to Install)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6645\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stellarium, a planetarium software shows a 3D simulation of the night sky, has reached the 0.16.1 release. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>Stellarium 0.16.1 is a bug-fix release with some important new features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added moons of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto<\/li>\n<li>Added improvements for AstroCalc tool<\/li>\n<li>DSO catalog was updated to version 3.2:\n<ul>\n<li>Added support &#8216;The Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae&#8217; (Acker+, 1992)<\/li>\n<li>Added support &#8216;A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants&#8217; (Green, 2014)<\/li>\n<li>Added support &#8216;A Catalog of Rich Clusters of Galaxies&#8217; (Abell+, 1989)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added support asterisms and outlines for DSO<\/li>\n<li>Added improvements for the GUI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stellarium-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stellarium-ubuntu.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/stellarium-ubuntu-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Stellarium 0.16.1 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The official Stellarium PPA has built the packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stellarium\/stellarium-releases<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-ppa-xenial-600x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"107\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-ppa-xenial-600x107.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-ppa-xenial-450x80.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/stellarium-ppa-xenial.jpg 766w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade Stellarium from an existing release with Software Updater utility:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upgrade-stellarium-450x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upgrade-stellarium-450x317.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upgrade-stellarium-600x422.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upgrade-stellarium.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or run following commands to install the software for the first time:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install stellarium<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove stellarium<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA via &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; utility under Other Software tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stellarium, a planetarium software shows a 3D simulation of the night sky, has reached the 0.16.1 release. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and derivatives. Stellarium 0.16.1 is a bug-fix release with some important new features: Added moons of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto Added improvements for AstroCalc tool DSO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1215,648],"class_list":["post-7168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-free-planetarium-software","tag-stellarium"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}