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Steam News 18 April 20242y ago

Build 0.990.47.2015: Catalog Updates, Additions, and Fixes

Thanks to everyone who partook in the Beta! The public release has a few more additions which will be highlighted along with the patch notes from the Beta. Dr. Megan highlighted one of the new exoplanets, as well as two…

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addedThanks to everyone who partook in the Beta! The public release has a few more additions which will be highlighted along with the patch notes from the Beta. Dr. Megan highlighted one of the new exoplanets, as well as two new black hole systems, in celebration of our new celestial neighbo(u)rs!
addedChangelog:[h4]New Additions[/h4]
addedChangelog:Added AgX tonemapping mode
addedChangelog:Added Gaia BH2 and BH3 black hole systems
changedChangelog:[h4]Additions from Beta[/h4]
changedChangelog:Updated rotation models for moons in our solar system to be more precise (DE436 model for Earth's moon, and IAU rotation for other moons in the Solar system) -Known issue: rotation begins to drift at the distant past or future (around the 20,000 year mark from the present)

Thanks to everyone who partook in the Beta! The public release has a few more additions which will be highlighted along with the patch notes from the Beta. Dr. Megan highlighted one of the new exoplanets, as well as two new black hole systems, in celebration of our new celestial neighbo(u)rs!

Read all about it here: https://spaceengine.org/news/blog240417/

Changelog:

[h4]New Additions[/h4]

  • Added AgX tonemapping mode

  • Added Gaia BH2 and BH3 black hole systems

[h4]Additions from Beta[/h4]

  • Updated rotation models for moons in our solar system to be more precise (DE436 model for Earth's moon, and IAU rotation for other moons in the Solar system) -Known issue: rotation begins to drift at the distant past or future (around the 20,000 year mark from the present)

  • Date/time field on the Navigation toolbar now accepts input in Julian date format (for example: J2460409 was the day of the 2024 eclipse)

  • Added a new stellar limb darkening function (WIP)

  • Updated spectral types for 60,000+ catalog stars

  • Updated distances for 100,000+ catalog stars, as well as some black holes and their hosts (mostly minor, only a few thousand are more significant)

  • Added 810 new brown dwarfs

  • Added a few dozen new exoplanets/host stars

  • Added missing 'B' components of exoplanet-hosting binaries

  • Updated naming conventions for some stars and nebulae

  • Added an accretion disk to T CrB B (aka, The Blaze Star)

  • Updated Uranus and Neptune's new moons, and tweaked their atmosphere colors to be more accurate

  • Improved the appearance of Eris, Dysnomia, and Sedna

  • Updated greenhouse gas concentrations in Earth's atmosphere

  • Adjusted shadow and totality mask of the recent eclipse

  • Tweaked atmosphere visuals for Galilean satellites

  • Fixed Europa's classification/composition (it's a terra, not an aquaria)

  • Updated albedo of Dione

  • More climate model bug fixes, largely related to wind speeds

  • Fixed eclipse shadow sizes being larger than they should

  • Fixed carbon star spectral types for catalog planets always presenting as C-R

  • Updated the asteroid (16) Psyche

  • Fixed visibility distance of star cluster particles

  • Removed flags from the language selection list

  • Pruned duplicate catalog entries

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Steam News / 18 April 2024

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