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New Flatpak app ID

By tsagrista on

Our Flatpak package, published via Flathub, has been updated to a new app ID space.gaiasky.GaiaSky. This has been done to match the domain of our new website gaiasky.space. Additionally, this has enabled us to verify the application, which was impossible with the old de.uni_heidelberg.zah.GaiaSky ID, as we did not control that domain.

Gaia Sky is now verified on Flathub.

Essentially, I needed to contact the uni-heidelberg.de domain owner and ask them to add their domain to a PSL (public suffix list). They were initially cooperative, but after a few department redirections my requests must have fallen down the bureaucracy cracks, for they stopped being responsive. If you want the full story, check out this issue, and this one.

New homepage

By tsagrista on

Today we publish the new Gaia Sky web site. If you are reading this, you obviously know it. I’ve been working on this for a while, and, even though it is not yet finished, I think it is now ready to be deployed. Until now, we have used the website of our institute, which uses the Typo3 CMS, as our home page. In a few days, I’ll make it point to this new site.

Gaia Sky 3.6.6

By tsagrista on

📢 Today we publish the version 3.6.6 of Gaia Sky. This is a small update focused on fixing some bugs and improving performance. Also, it comes with proper handling of depth for volumes!

The Trifid nebula (NGC6514) rendered as a volume with correct usage of the depth buffer.

Gaia Sky 3.6.5

By tsagrista on

📢 Today, coinciding with the end of the sky-scanning phase of Gaia, we publish Gaia Sky 3.6.5. The most noteworthy addition is the introduction of the volume rendering infrastructure.

Gaia Sky 3.6.5 welcome screen.

Gaia Sky 3.6.4-2

By tsagrista on

📢 Gaia Sky patch release 3.6.4-2 includes a fix for the external view feature.

Gaia Sky 3.6.4

By tsagrista on

📢 Gaia Sky 3.6.4 released! It comes with a new in-app console, a revamp in the locations feature, and some under-the-hood rendering improvements.

Gaia Sky 3.6.4 welcome screen.

Gaia Sky 3.6.3-2

By tsagrista on

📢 Gaia Sky 3.6.3-2 available now!

Gaia Sky 3.6.3

By tsagrista on

📢 Gaia Sky 3.6.3 available now!