Download SpaceEngine 0.990.38.1740

SpaceEngine is a 3D astronomy program being developed by Russian astronomer Vladimir Romanyuk. It offers a 3D model of our universe based on real astronomical data and scientifically accurate procedural algorithms. It is available for the Windows platform; versions for Linux and macOS are planned. For more information, please refer to this page and this video on Youtube. The developer has released version 0.990 on Steam after years of development. From now on you have to pay for this, but the older versions are still available for free via their own website. The latest update has a version number of 0.990.38.1740 and was announced as follows:

UPDATE 0.990.38.1740

This small patch adds few bug fixes, and was released to the public branch. It was merged with the previous patch 0.990.38.1730.

The header image is a prominent triple solar eclipse on Jupiter, occurred at January 24, 2015. This event makes noticeable a bug in SE: orientation of analytical orbits of Jovian moons was inaccurate. As a result, Callisto’s shadow missed Jupiter’s disk. This is fixed now. Note that if you plan Jupiter observations with SE, you must take into account light travel delay, which is not yet modeled by SE (35-50 minutes for Jupiter).

Build 0.990.38.1740

• Fixed bug with erroneous planetary systems in globular clusters
• Fixed completely black areas on cold red giants in auto/manual exposure mode
• Fixed incorrect orientation of orbits of Galilean moons
• Hapke parameters for coherent backscatter for planet surface, clouds and rings

Build 0.990.38.1730

• New Titan textures by retro-visor
• Adjusted gamma of Jupiter and Io textures
• Adjusted photometric properties of Jupiter and the Galilean satellites for increased accuracy
• Gamma correction for planet textures: parameter in catalog scripts and slider in the editor
• Added ability to specify a threshold for the bloom effect (doesn’t affect anything by default).
• New music by Lokijar
• Fixed bug with selection of wrong screenshot file format at startup
• Fixed displaying or incorrect axis tilt for procedural planets
• Fixed generation of too many extremely tilted procedural planets [pending for for 0.991]
• Updated localizations
• Updated exoplanet catalog
• Added comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) and other minor bodies
• Added names for 5 recently named satellites of Jupiter
• Solar system browser: fixed empty (globe) previews in the very long list of satellites
• Fixed model of the galaxy ESO 510-G13
• Fixed bug with displacement and flickering of star lens flares in fish eye/cylindrical/cube modes what happened in distant galaxies
• Fixed bug with displacement of autoexposure metering zone (other autoexposure metering bugs still exist)