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
