More new stuff! We leapt past 4.1 (see previous posts) and 4.2 has landed.
More polish and fixes, but some substantive new things too, especially in Visual Search – now updated with full support for the planets and celestial targets.
But perhaps the nicest addition is in the FPV virtual viewfinder – switch to “Draw” mode (control lower right) when Visual Search tab is selected and simply draw the area of the sky where you want your target to appear. The search completes automatically and you can click or cursor key through the results while looking at your planned shot:
The new draw-to-search feature makes “visual search” live fully up to its name at long last: you literally draw where you want the Sun, Moon, Venus etc. to be positioned in your shot, and TPE goes and finds it.
Max duration searches are now increased from 5 years to 20 years – that’s actually meaningful for some of the planets where alignments don’t occur for many years at a time.
Try it out and let me know what you think!