Go to Earth. Land in daylight.

Set exposure to manual so that it looks realistic.

Don't change the exposure.

Go to Pluto.

Notice it's pitch black.

Try to land on the daytime surface (while seeing nothing).

Notice the entire landscape is 0,0,0 RGB. I.e. pitch black.

This is not accurate.

PS: I'm a commercial advertising photographer and architect specializing in lighting.

I understand that the human eye adjusts to light levels. Yet the human eye can still perceive differences in light levels (lx). We know that the surface of Pluto (at the brightest it can be) is similar to 15 ...

NASA has a Pluto time website that shows how dark it is on Pluto at noon.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/plutotime/

Noon on Pluto is comparable to 15 minutes before the sunrise on Earth. The landscape is therefore quite dark.

I have paid 20EUR for Space Engine and have ...

You really want SE to include an atom bomb simulator to destroy stuff?

Why? Why not go and play with some matches instead.

I wish we could have a working Apollo  Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV)

I will post on Reddit as for some reason I can't post examples here

We don't need raytracing as the current lighting model is not accurate. It needs to be fixed. The lx levels are (completely) wrong.

The mistakes in SE are generally two fold:

Objects are in the wrong places and orientations. Almost all stars further out than 20ly are off by multiple amounts. Sometimes 2500 ly.

The second problem is the incorrect lighting system

How do we know what happens to our suggestions?

How do we stop the planets flashing in Auto and Manual mode?

is this happening in SpaceEngine 0.980?

No, it happens on the paid version:

Space Engine 0.990 Build 45.190

How do we stop the planets flashing in Auto and Manual mode?

These are some basic scientific improvement suggestions for SE.

1. Fix the lighting. This is the most important. You can go to Eris or Sedna, click the automatic photo mode, face the sun and the landscape is blindingly light. This is of course incorrect. It would be good if SE actually featured ...

These are some basic scientific improvement suggestions for SE.

1. Fix the lighting. This is the most important. You can go to Eris or Sedna, click the automatic photo mode, face the sun and the landscape is blindingly light. This is of course incorrect. It would be good if SE actually featured ...