What’s new – Astronomia no Telhado

What changed in the latest Carina versions. The most recent one is 0.19.1, focused on astrophotography. For the full history, see the changelog on GitHub (in Portuguese).

Version 0.19.1: astrophotography fixes

Labels that disappeared: with a field of view centered on a selected object, stars, objects and cardinal points show up again.
Setups: new Save button, which overwrites the chosen setup, with a notice that it was saved. The field of view returns to the last set used, even if unnamed.
Smart telescope on mounts: Alt-Az mode (avoids the zenith, subs of up to 30 s) or EQ mode on a wedge (no meridian flip).
Astrophotography session: the setup list refreshes by itself; a Field of view… button sits next to it; the sub-exposure shows the number of subs for the goal, with an editable loss margin per duration range; Target suggestions with photos of the best-placed targets of the night; hour lines and a tooltip when hovering the useful-hours chart.
Right-click on an object: Add to the astrophotography session.
Unexpected errors are now logged to erros.log in the user folder and shown in a message.

Version 0.19: astrophotography and companion

Astrophotography session (Ctrl+Shift+S): the night’s targets split into integration blocks, never crossing the meridian on an equatorial mount and staying out of the zenith zone on an alt-azimuth one. It brings the suggested sub-exposure for your sky, how many nights to gather the hours you want, and each target’s yearly imageability calendar.
Field of view: named saved setups, an N×M mosaic on the sky, “does it fit my field?” on the object sheet, and the eyepiece image according to the optical train.
My photo on the map: click two stars in your own photo and it is overlaid on the sky, aligned.
Phone companion: the red-light plan on your phone via QR code, with an “observed” button that goes to the journal.
Automatic Bortle: when you pick a city, the estimated sky brightness from NASA’s night-lights map.
ISS and satellites: import orbital elements (a CelesTrak file) and see visible passes, with the track on the sky. The “Today in the sky” card tells you when the ISS passes.

Version 0.18: planets

Planets window (Ctrl+Shift+E): the seven planets with each one’s state and the disk as seen in a telescope.
Mercury and Venus with the day’s phase and the series of phases over the coming months; Mars with its central meridian; Jupiter with its bands, the Great Red Spot and the four Galilean moons as seen from Earth, with transits, shadows and occultations; Saturn with its rings at the day’s tilt and its moons.
The Best season tab shows the visibility season in your sky and the next oppositions or greatest elongations, with the altitude the planet will reach at your location.
In the sky, planets turn into disks as you zoom in, and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn appear with their names.

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