Time to update screenshots?

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Time to update screenshots? #43

Open Atque opened 1 year ago

Atque commented 1 year ago

Quite a lot has happened with Stellarium the last decade. The screenshots shown at https://stellarium.org/screenshots.html are extremely outdated. A few ideas:

AstroCalc, e.g. brightness graph
DSO outlines
Solar eclipse simulation
HiPS/TOAST
Script
Plugin, e.g Archaeolines
Some non-western sky culture

Just a few ideas.

10110111 commented 1 year ago

Indeed. Also, the format should be PNG, or at least a less compressed JPEG, because in the current form the screenshots have awful quality.

gzotti commented 1 year ago

Some images are certainly more than 10 year old, when bandwidth may have been more of a problem. Screenshot format "jpeg" is less compressed, or just make them larger. Certainly also worth depicting:

satellites/ISS
scenery3d
comets
light pollution foreground
exoplanet distribution
closeup of occultation between Jupiter's moons.

Should we keep the 0.10 images in a "museum"?

10110111 commented 1 year ago

Should we keep the 0.10 images in a "museum"?

I don't find any value in them, especially given how crippled they are by the compression. If someone wants to see how Stellarium 0.10 looked, the download is still available in the "all releases" section.

alex-w commented 1 year ago

I fear we need new design for the website, not only updating screenshots and slideshow (hint: check img/screenshots directory). For a "museum" - please check https://dss.stellarium.org/stellarium/ - it's not complete yet, but it is almost a full mirror of packages.