Celestia/1.7.0 Changes

List of changes in Celestia 1.7.0 (work in progress, likely outdated except for units). Rendering Blackbody star colors are default Fading orbits (can be toggled) On ringed planets, the side of the rings facing away from the star is in shadow LunarLambert makes objects brighter - apparently this is correct? Sprite nebulae fade at a distance Visibility of different object types (planets, moons, etc), as well as rings, can be toggled individually Stars and planets can be rendered out to a distance of 1 billion light-years (increased from 10 million light-years) Info display Dwarf planets and minor moons are shown in the right-click menu of their parent body (they aren't in 1.6.x) Temperatures are calculated for circumbinary planets Data Updates to most data files, models, and textures Default temperatures and bolometric corrections for main-sequence stars updated Audio Audio support has been added - thread New parameters STC files Temperature - in degrees Kelvin BoloCorrection - Bolometric correction Extinction - the number of magnitudes by which the star's light is extinguished Spectral classes Y - for Y-class brown dwarfs WO - for Wolf–Rayet stars of the oxygen sequence SSC files Mass - in Earth units New albedo parameters. Described in this issue, although the actual implementation isn't exactly the same as what was suggested. BondAlbedo - Bond albedo GeomAlbedo - Geometric albedo; replaces Albedo Reflectivity - the visible average global reflectivity TempDiscrepancy - this is added to the calculated equilibrium temperature Temperature - in degrees Kelvin; overrides TempDiscrepancy TailColor - for comets Units For many parameters, units can be specified in angle brackets, like this: Radius<rE> 1.1 Length For e.g. Distance, Radius, SemiMajorAxis <cm> - centimeters <m> - meters <km> - kilometers <rE> - Earth radii <rJ> - Jupiter radii <rS> - solar radii <AU> or <au> - astronomical units <ly> - light-years <pc> - parsecs <kpc> - kiloparsecs <Mpc> - megaparsecs Time For e.g. Period <s> - seconds <min> - minutes <h> - hours <d> - days <y> - years Angle For e.g. RA, Dec, ArgOfPericenter <mas> - milliarcseconds <arcsec> - arcseconds <arcmin> - arcminutes <deg> - degrees <hRA> - hours of Right Ascension <rad> - radians Mass For Mass <kg> - kilograms <mE> - Earth masses <mJ> - Jupiter masses Solar mass units weren't added, despite mySevenSpheres suggestion to do so. Locations New location types can be found here. Scripting See CEL/CELX Scripting Documentation on celestia.mobi for new CEL/CELX commands. Notes note