SpaceEngine News

Hey folks!

We have reverted the bug that was causing magnitudes to display wildly incorrect values. The change was intended to be an accuracy improvement, but it wasn't playing nice with existing calculations. While fixing the bug, we determined that proper integration will affect SpaceEngine's procedural generation, so to preserve your locations and keep the universe stable, we will delay releasing that improvement until a future major version.

The purpose of this Beta is to ensure magnitudes have been returned to the values you currently see on the public branch. Please file bug reports in the usual channels (Bug Reports on the official Discord and Troubleshooting and Bug Reports on the Steam forums) with any inconsistencies you find!

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• Removed apparent magnitude fix that was causing multiple bugs
  

We have received a lot of reports of issues with the display of magnitudes for planets and other non-Star objects after the last release. We have rolled back to the previous version on the main branch while we work on a fix. Thank you for your patience!

The JuMBO update is still available on the Beta branch, if you would like to explore it in the interim:
https://spaceengine.org/opt-in-to-beta/

Hey folks!

We're bringing your monthly dose of catalog updates, featuring several recently discovered JuMBO's in the Trapezium cluster!

If your first thought was of overly large trapeze swings, you're not alone. Dr. Megan has written up a blog post explaining these rogue pairs and featuring one among the recent discoveries! Read all about it here: https://spaceengine.org/news/blog240924/

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• Updated the exoplanet and host star catalog (new planets and hosts), including new Jupiter Mass Binary Objects (JuMBOs)
  
• Fixed duplicates in the white dwarf catalogs, so white dwarf binaries won’t have an extra white dwarf at the barycenter
  
• Fixed an assortment of one-off errors in object properties in the catalogs
  
• Fixed a bug where planemo displayed large numbers for daylight hours at equator and an annual fraction of polar day at current latitude
  
• Fixed an issue with AgX tonemapping name
  

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• Increased precision for physical and rotational parameters in exported exoplanet and star scripts
  
• Fixed bug with loading/saving workshop addons list when an addon had a quote mark in its name
  
• Fixed crash in the Event Finder when choosing “Eclipse” mode if no star or planet is selected
  
• Updated the exoplanet and host star catalog (new planets and hosts)
  
• Updated locations
  

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• Fixed a bug that crashed tutorials
  
• Updated localizations
  
• Updated the exoplanet and host star catalog (new planets/hosts, updated distances to hosts)
  
• Updated the Pleiades cluster and Orion Trapezium Cluster star distances
  
• Added “Trapezium” cluster as a searchable object