SkyChart full changelog

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
Add object to the Observing list from the Object list
The old Encoder driver can be installed from: https://github.com/pchev/alpaca_encoder/releases
Bug fix
Planet in line mode must be really transparent
Fix “Show Mark” option for comet and asteroid simulation
Fix launching Edge browser
Show a clear error message when trying to run on 8 or 16 bit display
Fix disconnection from Alpaca telescope

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
Add object to the Observing list from the Object list
The old Encoder driver can be installed from: https://github.com/pchev/alpaca_encoder/releases
Bug fix
Planet in line mode must be really transparent
Fix “Show Mark” option for comet and asteroid simulation
Fix launching Edge browser
Show a clear error message when trying to run on 8 or 16 bit display
Fix disconnection from Alpaca telescope

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.
New performance options from menu File/Reset chart and options…
New tool box function you can activate with the keys F1 to F8.
Scripting functions and custom tool box capabilities.
New representation for the Milky Way. This can be activated from the menu Setup / Display / Lines by unchecking “Milky Way - Line mode”.
Updated Solar system information window with more functionallity
Plot images for the main planetary satellites
More color and label options
Update the artificial satellites TLE files automatically.
Option to add a crosshair to the chart center.
Option to add the meridian line with any projection.
Show comet and asteroid hourly motion in the detail window.
Update download URL for asteroids and comets

New options:
· Meta+rotate button rotate by 180 degrees.
· Right click on rotate button reset the rotation to 0.
· Setup/Display "Show only text in detail window", use if you have problem with the standard detail window.

Bug fixed since version 3.6:
· Crash in planet computation.
· Accept command if running with --daemon option
· Wrong position when searching for planet name.
· Crash in Observatory database.
· Fix Setup/Pictures menu
· Fix UTF-8 picture path

New options:
· Meta+rotate button rotate by 180 degrees.
· Right click on rotate button reset the rotation to 0.
· Setup/Display quot;Show only text in detail windowquot;, use if you have problem with the standard detail window.

Bug fixed since version 3.6:
· Crash in planet computation.
· Accept command if running with --daemon option
· Wrong position when searching for planet name.
· Crash in Observatory database.
· Fix Setup/Pictures menu
· Fix UTF-8 picture path

· Add distance measurement tool.
· Add chart legend. See menu Chart / Labels
Change in projection mapping:
· Add Mercator projection.
· Cartesian and Mercator projection are rotated to the screen center for full sky coverage.
· Change the default projection to Tangent for FOV up to 90 deg. and Mercator for widther fields.
· Limit the use of Arc projection to 250 deg. FOV.
· Limit the vision of objects below the horizon to 180 deg. FOV.
· New default star catalog based on Extended Hipparcos to replace the BSC and Sky2000.
Improved precision of the apparent coordinates (many thanks to P. Wallace for its help):
· Star parallax
· Take account of the radial velocity to compute the proper motions.
· Light deflection by the Sun.
· Extended time validity for nutation and aberration if using DE422.
· Allow to use Socks proxy.
· Improved precision in the display of FITS images by using WCStools. Can show the images with transparency.
· Add option to only show the meridian lines.

· Native 64 bit version for Linux and Windows
· Integrated ASCOM Interface, can be used on Windows x64.
· Support for INDI 0.6
· More command line options to allow automation from simple script.
· Add Solar System symbols.
· Change default color and star setting.
· Allow to change bitmap stars image in photographic mode.
· Possibility to make DSO not filled in graphic mode.
· Add mode keyboard shortcut.
· Right click on many button to directly access the corresponding setup form.
· More DSS online server.
· Update SAC database to version 8.1.
· Draw a small circle to indicate the search result.