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Stellarium 0 15 0 3D Planetarium app released

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Stellarium 0 15 0 3D Planetarium app released Stellarium 0.15.0 recently released, is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Stellarium 0.15.0 is based on Qt5.6. Starting with this version, some graphics cards have been blacklisted by Qt and are automatically forced to use ANGLE on Windows. A major internal change with the StelProperty system was introduced. This allows simpler access to internal variables and therefore more ways of operation. Most notably this version introduces an alternative control option via RemoteControl, a new webserver interface plugin. Another milestone was introduced towards providing better astronomical accuracy for historical applications: experimental support of getting planetary positions from JPL DE430 and DE431 ephemerides. This feature is however not fully tested yet. Stellarium 0.15.0 Hightlights Added StelProperty system Add...