Celestia/1.7.0 Changes

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List of changes in Celestia 1.7.0 (work in progress).

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
BondAlbedo - Bond albedo
GeomAlbedo - Geometric albedo; replaces Albedo
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

<m> - meters
<km> - kilometers
<rE> - Earth radii
<rJ> - Jupiter radii
<rS> - solar radii
<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 my^{[note 1]} suggestion to do so.

Locations

New location types can be found here.

Notes

↑ SevenSpheres

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