* New stars.dat format with HD catalog numbers and parallax errors omitted
* Added catalog cross indexes for HD and SAO catalogs
* Fixed bugs in parsing catalog numbers
* Added white dwarf temperatures and spectral types DA, DB, DC, DO, DQ, and DZ
* Added handling for partial spectral types where one or both of the subclass
and luminosity class are unknown
* Permit extended star attributes in .stc files: mesh, texture, rotation
elements, semiaxes
* Support multiple star systems of any complexity with orbits and barycenters
* Changed .stc loader so that a star definition with a duplicate catalog
number replaces the previous definition
* Made catalog numbers optional in .stc files; stars can be defined without
having to create fake catalog numbers
* Star colors now chosen based on temperature; either 'classic' and black body
colors may be selected
* Bound % key to toggle between star color tables
* Fixed black holes: infinite radius bug gone, rendered just as a plain black
sphere
* Added comprehensive catalog of all knows stars within 25 light years of the
Sun, including orbits for multiple star systems
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Changes 1.4.1
* Changed maximum number of eclipse shadows in OpenGL 2.0 path from two to
three; if max is exceeded, clamp to three rather than not rendering the
shadows at all.
* Corrected a bad calculation in ring shadow shaders that caused ring shadows
to be drawn in the wrong place.
* Windows: Fixed the minimum feature size slider in the locations dialog so it
updates in response to all the standard controls.
* Added a correct InfoURL for the Moon
* Windows: added splash screen with a progress indicator
* Corrected a local flashing of the Milky Way brightness.
* Now the distance to the galaxy center is displayed, if the observer is
located inside the galaxy (Milky Way...).
* Eliminated various incorrect Hubble type acronyms in deepsky.dsc that had
penetrated the PERL filter.
* Updated Titan and Iapetus textures in lores directory
* Added lunar elevation map, using Clementine laser altimeter data, merged
in the polar regions, with topographic data from Clementine 750 nm
oblique and nadir images.
* Updated/added Tethys textures in lores, medres and hires directories.
* Added locations on Phoebe in satmoons2.ssc, as extracted from USGS/IAU
official data.
* Added Mesh for Phoebe texture.
* Updated Iapetus texture.
* Moved locations files from extras into data directory for inclusion in
standard package.
* Fixed bug where displayed time scale differed from actual time scale after
clicking a cel URL.
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Pkgsrc:
* Use options.mk framework to build GLUT, GTK, GNOME, or KDE user interface.
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