Hello,

A new test version of Cartes du Ciel 3 is available.
All the details and download link are here:

http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/page-39.html

Look also below if you want a quick overview of the new functions.
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Bonjour,

Une nouvelle version de test de Cartes du Ciel 3 est disponible.
Vous trouverez tous les détails ici:

http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/page-38.html

Voir ci-dessous un aperçu des nouvelles fonctions.

Best Regards,
Meilleurs salutations,

Patrick Chevalley

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User interface:
Manual telescope interface.
Search panel to specify search details.
Position control panel.
Zoom panel.
Linked chart allow multiple chart to keep centered at the same location.
Lock and track any object.
Night Vision mode.
Full screen display.
Better multi-chart display avoiding the window manager border.
Edit Labels button to switch editing mode. The label are now not
editable by default.

Chart drawing:
RealSky CD-rom support.
Nebulae Colour Enhancement by Peter Dean
Better comet drawing.
Common star name label.
On the chart information.
Line for the horizon depression due to the observer altitude.

Planet drawing:
With Xplanet 1.2.0 the patch is no longer necessary. Please upgrade to
this version.
It is also possible to use Xplanet on Windows. This allow to plot the
umbra of the satellite on the disk of Jupiter.

Telescope control:
Indi driver working again.
Use DCD to control the INDI devices.

Performance:
Better refresh preformance on Linux.
Use quick refresh when moving or zooming with the keyboard.

Bug:
Wrong longitude when saving observatory.
Save and restore all the open charts.
Lot of small bug and improvement.