"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
SpaceEngine (April 5, 2017) vs Celestia (September 7, 2012)
Real planet brightness?
For the SE pic, yeah. I know it is not realistically calibrated in the public version, but I prefer it over "constant illumination until an abrupt cut-off around the scattered disk".
I forgot to remove the SDSS galaxy v2.0 before reinstalling SDSS galaxies v1.1 in search of a missing system I photographed, and noticed something interesting:
Apparently the star distribution isn't truly random. Oops. :lol:
(EDIT: Forgot to add that I found the system I was seeking. )
Anyways some more, unrelated pics.
I miss this 0.971 glitch... It was my favorite SE glitch lol.