https://skychart.ap-i.net/ Fri, 15 May 2026 01:17:34 +0000 FeedCreator 1.8 https://skychart.ap-i.net/_media/logo.png https://skychart.ap-i.net/ https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/a_new_look_for_skychart?rev=1506935759 A new look for Skychart After using the same small button icons for years, some since 15 years ago, a new set of button is now available. Thanks to the work of Mattia Verga based on the KDE Breeze theme we can now benefit of much cleaner, intuitive and homogeneous buttons. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:15:59 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/gaia_dr1?rev=1491395194 GAIA DR1 The first GAIA data release is now available and can be used with Skychart [M13 with GAIA DR1] The first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1, consisting of astrometry and photometry for over 1 billion sources brighter than magnitude 20.7 in the white-light photometric band G of Gaia. The Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) processed the raw measurements collected with the Gaia instruments during the first 14 months of the mission, and turned these into an astrometric and phot… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:26:34 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/gaia_dr2?rev=1563360469 GAIA DR2 The second GAIA data release is now available and can be used with Skychart [M13 with GAIA DR2] The second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2, consist of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, astrophysical parameters and variability information for about 1.7 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:47:49 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/gaia_dr3?rev=1708859852 GAIA DR3 GAIA DR3 is now available and can be used with Skychart [M13 with GAIA DR3] The Gaia Data Release 3, consist of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, astrophysical parameters and variability information for about 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:17:32 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/gaia_edr3?rev=1608214145 GAIA EDR3 GAIA EDR3 is now available and can be used with Skychart [M13 with GAIA EDR3] The Gaia Early Data Release 3, consist of astrometry, photometry, radial velocities, astrophysical parameters and variability information for about 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:09:05 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/more_catalog_for_linux?rev=1446839017 More catalog for Linux More catalog are now available in ZIP format to allow installation on Linux system. They are identical to the .exe installer available for Windows, no need to reinstall if you already get them. Go to the Download section for more details. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:37 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/new_web_pages?rev=1446839018 New web pages The Cartes du Ciel web was changed to help user contribution The new wiki will help you to contribute to this pages, principally the program documentation and translations. With the today snapshot of the software an extract of this wiki is used for the online help system. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/nomad?rev=1528551242 The NOMAD catalog The Naval Observatory Merged Astrometric Dataset (NOMAD) contains astrometric and photometric data for over 1 billion stars derived from the Hipparcos , Tycho-2 , UCAC2 , and USNO-B1.0 catalogs for astrometry and optical photometry, supplemented by 2MASS near-infrared photometry. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:34:02 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/ppmxl_catalog?rev=1582877637 Want even more stars ? Making a map of any part of the sky with all the stars to magnitude 20 was only a dream for many years. Then a few solutions have emerged like USNO-A and USNO-B catalog. The old version of CdC can even get this data online for a limited area but the full USNO-B download was not available. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:13:57 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/start?rev=1708850596 News ---------- GAIA DR3 January 17 2024 The GAIA data release 3 can now be used with Skychart. The data used by the program are very similar to EDR3, but it now use a faster file format for the faint stars. ---------- GAIA EDR3 December 17 2020 The GAIA early data release 3 is now available and can be used with Skychart anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:43:16 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/the_version_3_alpha_0.0.1_is_available?rev=1446839018 The version 3 alpha 0.0.1 is available! This is the first alpha version, the development of the program is still in progress. This alpha version is full of bug and many function of the version 2 are not include here. Please do not fill the bug tracker at the moment! anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/ucac3_catalog?rev=1446839019 A new catalog ideal for star chart [M 13 with UCAC3 catalog] The UCAC3 star catalog was published by USNO at the end of august 2009. Its main characteristics are: * Full sky coverage * 100 million stars * Complete down to magnitude 16 * Good resolution of double stars anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:39 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/ucac4_catalog?rev=1457017688 UCAC 4 A new version of UCAC catalog is available [M 13 with UCAC4 catalog] The UCAC4 star catalog was published by USNO in 2012. It include 113 millions stars to magnitude 16. UCAC4 is largely based on UCAC3 however, has a number of critical improvements: * bug fixes (e.g. missing stars, multiple entries, mag.eq. corrections) anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 03 Mar 2016 15:08:08 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/ucac4_streak?rev=1446839019 UCAC 4 "Streak" processing [Streaks near M8] This page describes the process done by Skip Gaede to identify the “streak” stars present in some regions of the UCAC4 catalog, principally in a 30 degrees radius around the galactic center. The streaks were identified during the UCAC4 data reduction and the stars were flagged in the catalog data in a field holding the object type. A value of 2 indicates a potential streak object. But this flag became insufficient for identifying all of the streaks… anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:39 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/urat1_catalog?rev=1446839019 URAT 1 A new observational catalog from USNO is available URAT is a follow-up project to the successful UCAC project using the same astrograph but with a much larger focal plane array. Longer integration times and more sensitive, backside CCDs allowed for a substantial increase in limiting magnitude, resulting in about 4-fold increase in the average number of stars per square degree as compared to UCAC. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:39 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/usno-b1.0_catalog?rev=1446839019 USNO-B1.0 Catalog USNO-B is an all-sky catalog that presents positions, proper motions, magnitudes in various optical passbands, and star/galaxy estimators for 1,042,618,261 objects derived from 3,643,201,733 separate observations. The data were obtained from scans of 7,435 Schmidt plates taken for the various sky surveys during the last 50 years. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:39 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_alpha_0.0.2?rev=1446839018 Version 3 alpha 0.0.2 This new alpha version is now a useable simple planetarium. It include the position of the planets and their satellites. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_alpha_0.0.3?rev=1446839018 Version 3 alpha 0.0.3 A new alpha version is now available to play during the Summer. Many new feature from the version 2.75 are added. Also some really new one : * 2.8 million world cities database. * Galactic and Ecliptic chart projection. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_alpha_0.0.4?rev=1446839019 Version 3 alpha 0.0.4 This version add the support for an asteroid database. It is now possible to show all the know asteriods down to a fixed magnitude on any chart. This is achieved by using a database system to store and quickly retrieve the related asteroid elements from the 200'000 MPCORB list. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:39 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_alpha_0.0.5?rev=1446839018 Version 3 alpha 0.0.5 Add comet database, labels, more printing functions. Add Comet database. That work the same way as for the Asteroids, see Version 3 alpha 0.0.4 for more details. If you already create the asteroid database please click the anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_alpha_0.0.6?rev=1446839018 Version 3 alpha 0.0.6 This version add telescope control. Major improvement of this version is telescope control using INDI library for both Linux and Windows or the same plugins as the version 2.7 for Windows. You can find more information about INDI at indi.sourceforge.net anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_alpha_0.0.7?rev=1446839018 Version 3 alpha 0.0.7 Improved star display and picture database. Improved star display The star can now be displayed using a parametric method to achieve the best rendering for your screen or personal preference. You can choose for big or small stars, high or low contrast between magnitude, colorful or gray scale. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_alpha_0.0.8?rev=1446839018 Version 3 alpha 0.0.8 This version add a lot of usability with new menu, button bar and functions. Calendar menu The Calendar menu show : * twilight time * planets, comets and asteroids ephemeris * solar and lunar eclipes Most work the same as in version 2.75. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_alpha_0.0.9?rev=1446839019 Version 3 alpha 0.0.9 Improved user interface with more functions When the “Link all chart” button is selected the multiple chart you can display on the screen always show the same object at the same time. Each chart can be configured for its own. You can change every option individually as the projection, field of vision, color, anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:39 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_beta_0.1.0?rev=1446839018 Version 3 beta 0.1.0 First beta version and compiler change, we now use Lazarus/FreePascal! The main change for this new version is purely technical: we now use the Lazarus / FreePascal compiler to develop the software. In the short term this must not make any difference to run the program but in the future this open the way to run nativelly on more platform as FreeBSD or Mac anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_beta_0.1.2?rev=1446839018 Version 3 beta 0.1.2 Program translation and online pictures The program can now be translated to any language. Thanks to voluntary translator it is already available in English, Catalan, Italian, Spanish, Ukranian and French. If you are interested to translate for your language please read anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_beta_0.1.4?rev=1446839018 Version 3 beta 0.1.4 One year without a new version? The partial update system using the development version system work fine and allow for efficient testing I not do a real version this year. About 200 change where applied during this time. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3_beta_0.1.6?rev=1446839018 Version 3 beta 0.1.6 Last beta before a stable version The next version later this year will be the first stable version of the V3. Change of the location of the configuration files WARNING! This version change the location of the configuration files. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3.2?rev=1446839018 Version 3.2 First stable version As a stabilization version it not include many new function but focus on fixing the bugs. About 140 issues where solved in this version. It also include the following change since the previous beta version: * anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3.4?rev=1446839018 Version 3.4 This version add some long awaited addition. A number of feature that where delayed for after the release of the first stable version are now available. This include almost all the functions that where available in the version 2.76 but not in 3.2. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3.6?rev=1446839018 Version 3.6 Interface: * Change the way the “Show grid” buttons are working. * Add “Show compass” button. * Add distance measurement tool, add “Measure distance” button. * Add chart legend. See menu Chart / Labels * Add option to only show the meridian lines. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3.8?rev=1446839019 Version 3.8 Major changes: Change of the catalog index format. An index record was previously pointing directly to the RA,DEC coordinates. Now the index point to a catalog record. This allow to process the stars proper motion for a correct location at any epoch. This also help to display the object label and full detail even if it is not visible with the current chart setting. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:39 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_3.10?rev=1446839018 Version 3.10 New functions: * Add the capability to display a picture for the horizon panorama. The image must be a PNG or BMP file of any size representing the full 360° panorama with an equirectangular projection. The horizon must be exactly at the middle height of the picture. The sky area must be set transparent (#FF00FF for BMP). The left side of the picture is the East direction. If you use another orientation you must also give the offset angle. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:38 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_4.0?rev=1489941715 Version 4.0 New functions: * Set the tool bar button arangement, size and text in Setup / Toolbar editor. Increase default button size. * The tool bar editor allow you to edit the button bar layout. The function is available from the menu Setup / Tool bar editor. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:41:55 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_4.2.1?rev=1574613641 Version 4.2.1 This version is mainly to fix some bug with the version 4.2 but it also introduce a few new features New functions * Add telescope handpad for ASCOM and INDI * Change Neighbour button to obey Object list setting, increase search radius to show at least 10 objects anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Sun, 24 Nov 2019 16:40:41 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/version_4.2?rev=1571303960 Version 4.2 New functions * New default interface with only two button bar. * New icon for the buttons, better suited for night vision filters. Use larger image for big buttons and high resolution screen. * Add direct connection to Alpaca telescope. It is now possible to use a telescope connected to a remote ASCOM Windows computer from Skychart running on Linux or macOS. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:19:20 +0000 https://skychart.ap-i.net/en/news/wiki_update?rev=1446839019 Wiki update Change to the Wiki setting regarding the translations. The Dokuwiki software use to build this pages has been updated. The most visible change is the new theme but the most important is the new translation system. As with the previous version the default language for the pages is set accordingly to your browser language preference or default to English if it is not available or not set. anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:43:39 +0000