Alienorum 1.0.1
Our cross-platform planetarium / space / world building software, including the following features:
- Internal catalog of over 130,000 stars;
- Includes definitions for solar system planets, moons, asteroids, and comets;
- Realtime 3D Positions of stars, including proper motions, and of orbiting bodies with full orbital parameters;
- GPU-powered OpenGL rendering;
- Produces views of sky and space from anywhere inside or outside our solar system, including views from satellites and views from the surfaces of other planets, moons, asteroids, and exoplanets;
- Spaceflight feature with time dilation and a warp speed mode, coupled with tracking ability to facilitate flybys of moons, planets, stars, star clusters, and galaxies;
- Professional ephemerides for accurate (within a few minutes) timing of solar and lunar eclipses;
- Automatic sync of exoplanet data from NASA's Exoplanet Archive*;
- Automatic sync of artificial satellite orbits from NORAD via CelesTrak*;
- Spaceship mode with selectable local, ecliptic, ICRF, and galactic frames;
- Latitude and longitude controls, with preset Earth cities, time zones, and points of interest on the Moon and on other planets.
- Editing of celestial objects including fictional texture, bump, and ring generation, atmospheric composition, and estimated surface temperatures/pressures;
- Full-sky map and sun clock modes;
- Snapshot functionality;
- Menu system, easily toggled by pressing F2, that displays keyboard shortcuts for all menu items;
- Red light mode for preserving dark adapted vision;
- White background mode for printing of saved snapshots;
- A rich set of themes named after constellations;
- Compatibility with Celestia's SSC format* for loading community-made fictional universes.
This release fixes some bugs that never should have gone out in v1.0.0 including:
- Numbered Bayer stars (e.g. Tau 1 Eridani) now show the correct designation (e.g. τ1) in Bayer mode (Shift+F) instead of random letters and numbers as before;
- Buttons at bottom of system explorer (E) now work properly on the selected item instead of a random star;
- Local system planets are now ensured visible in white background (W) mode, and flares are now shown in this mode with a cap on the flare intensity;
- Night side is now rendered as a shaded version of the day texture if no night texture is available (e.g. Mars, Moon) in Sun Clock mode ($);
- Pressing 1 in Sky Map mode (\) no longer brings back the S panel, N panel, or other elements not typically wanted for this mode;
- Epsilon Indi once again shows both red dwarf companions in system explorer (E) when visiting (O) the star system.
This release also adds a new feature: when labeling stars by Bayer (Shift+F), Flamsteed (F), or Gould (Shift+G) identifiers, there is now a dropdown in the S panel allowing the user to filter star labels by constellation.
*Alienorum is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with NASA, NORAD, CelesTrak, or the Celestia project. 'Celestia' is a trademark of its respective owners. Support for .ssc files is provided for compatibility purposes only.