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A lot of code has been rewritten for this update, and this beta version may still be buggy. ### Comets  Small icy bodies with highly eccentric orbits. As comets approach the sun, they brighten rapidly and tails start to form. Some comets even exceed Venus in brightness. ### Spyglass Zoom You can now zoom in further, by scrolling with the mouse wheel. This causes issues when Spyglass Improvements is installed, you can disable Astrocraft's zoom in the config. ### Star Rendering Rewrite Star Rendering is 20x faster, and you can set the Magnitude Limit config option up to magnitude 11 (previously only 6). ### Planet Configuration Semi-Major-Axis and Eccentricity options in the planets' orbit config, have been replaced with Perihelion and Aphelion Radii, which should be more intuitive. If you have the semi-major-axis and eccentricity of an orbit, you can convert using the following: - q = a * (1 - e) - Q = a * (1 + e) Highly eccentric or inclined orbits are no longer broken. The Absolute Magnitude option was replaced with Diameter. Magnitude is calculate from the configured Diameter and Color (albedo). ### Custom Star Configuration Custom stars can have binary systems with exoplanets. Which you can "observe" from, using the Observing Location option. You can also set a star's color to a temperature (K) or spectral class. ### Live Mode Live Mode uses real-life time and planetary positions, though it may not be accurate for things like eclipses. Timezones / Globe Mode is working again now. ### Sun and Moon Compatibility The sun and moon is rendered using vanilla textures, which means many resource packs and mods changing those textures work again. This includes: [Cubic Sun & Moon](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/cubic-sun-moon), and [Enchanced Celestials](https://modrinth.com/mod/enhanced-celestials).