Authors: Jonathan, Brendan

Hey folks~

The August update has passed Beta and is now live! This includes some future-proofing work for system builders and ship modelers, as well as catalog adjustments made from community notes and the addition of the first-of-its-kind exosatellite CD-35 2722 B b.

The full changelog can be found below. You may also learn more about the specifics of the update by clicking here.

Changelog

• M-type brown dwarfs and L-type main sequence stars now have correct labels
• Planetary mass “star” objects with spectral type M and later will now be labeled as planemos
• Spacecraft materials now support gamma adjustment for Diff/Emis maps and green channel inversion for DirectX normal maps. The following parameters have been added for use in .sml files:
  • DiffGamma/EmisGamma: values greater than 0 behave as a simple power gamma adjustment, while values below 0 instead use a fixed piecewise sRGB to linear conversion
  • DirectXNormMap: a boolean that inverts the green channel if set to “true”
• Fixed a bug where searching for a planet in the Star Browser with a pressure range that included 1.0 atm returned every gas giant in the search radius
• Updated the CD-35 2722 system and added the newly discovered exosatellite CD-35 2722 B b
• Updated Jupiter’s size and shape with the latest Juno data
• Corrected Titan’s mass
• Updated distance to M 99
• Fixed distance, size, and orientation of Ring Nebula
• Added Ring Nebula’s central star as a catalog object
• Fixed distance, size, and orientation of California Nebula
• Reduced luminosity of Pleiades Nebula for increased realism
• Updated distance to Puppis A
• Added newly published properties for The Garnet Star
• Corrected orbital parameters of Mu Ara’s planets
• Removed liquid ocean from Wolf 1061 c
• Updated Gliese 777 system (removed extra planets, added missing d planet, updated properties for b and c planets)
• Updated the exoplanet catalogs with 27 new host stars, 30 new planets, and five new brown dwarf candidates
• Added 12 new binary asteroid systems, updated some binary system names
  • Added newly assigned name to 1999 JB80: Karolinadziadura

Catalog Additions

Binary Asteroids:

• Nysa
• Nash
• Korankei
• Tippett
• 2002 TC302
• 2014 GX53
• 1999 SY8
• 2013 HU156
• 2000 AO1
• 2003 SD106
• Harwood
• 1999 BG2

Brown Dwarf Candidates:

• HD 16760 b
• KMT-2023-BLG-0332L b
• TIC 52059926 b
• TIC 9344899 b
• TOI-6884 b

Exoplanets:

• Gliese 3378 b
• HD 5388 b
• TOI-3457 b
• TOI-707 b
• GJ 777 A d
• HD 125136 b
• HD 126105 b
• HD 127195 b
• HD 127195 c
• HD 190360 d
• HIP 10090 b
• HIP 10090 c
• HIP 39330 b
• HIP 8923 b
• HIP 98599 b
• KMT-2023-BLG-1592L b
• NGTS-38 b
• OGLE-2023-BLG-0766L b
• TIC 150070085 b
• TOI-1533 b
• TOI-1533 c
• TOI-2147 b
• TOI-3664 b
• TOI-4034 b
• TOI-6019 b
• TOI-6564 b
• TOI-791 b
• TOI-791 c
• BET Pic d
• CD-35 2722 B b