Digitarium OP3 Updates

Software update information for the Digitarium OP3 operating platform.

Note: Every time you perform an update you will get the latest daily artificial satellite, comet, asteroid, and exoplanet data.

Release Date	Update Details	Approximate Size
December 20, 2011	Streamlined update to be up to 75% faster and provide more feedback during the process Added more built in scripts Nightshade 11.12.1, Digitarium Edition Added galactic coordinate grid Added comet magnitude simulation Added "wait until" script feature Smoother orbit positions at slow time rates Fixed bug with star scientific names not displaying Other bug fixes	7.2MB
November 10, 2011	Updated star catalog. Universal Console workaround for iOS5 issue on iPad.
October 24, 2011	Bug fix for update problems for French users.
September 20, 2011	Extended star catalog to 11.5 million stars (Nomad catalog). Fixed bug with Earth terminator Added support for MPEG-4 video All types of USB drives will continue to work even if internal disk fails Added cross-fades to Universal Console Universal Console improvements and bug fixes	86MB
July 8, 2011	Bug fixes related to star drawing and star settings	2MB
June 22, 2011	Extended star catalog to over 10 million stars (Nomad catalog). Extended simulation time to years +/- 1,000,000. Added star proper motion. Revamped nebula images and data and added distance information. Improved light pollution adjustment control (naked eye limiting magnitude). User loaded Milky Way textures are now used at full intensity by default. Added more solar system bodies.	122MB
May 3, 2011	Added support for large MPEG-2 video file resolutions. NOTE: Requires updating twice.	12MB
March 2, 2011	Universal Console desktop version initial release Bug fix with interpolated orbits	2MB
February 9, 2011	Command set milky_way_texture finalized for scripting spherical images Circumpolar circle command Smoother orbit visualizations Fixed bug with TUI latitude/longitude being slow on arrow change Fixed bug with lunar eclipse and scaled Moon Improved Milky Way texture Precession circle color is now configurable Added TUI item to adjust flight duration between bodies Flight between bodies is now the default	4MB
January 10, 2011	Improved Theora video codec support.	300kB
November 3, 2010	This release is a milestone for realism, adding clouds, night lights, and ring and moon shadows for more realistic planet rendering. Other enhancements include extended image format support, better support for negative Julian dates, a new Inca sky culture (constellations without stars), Earth precession circle, tropic lines on other planets, more fluid body motions, a new mountain landscape, and a number of other bug fixes and improvements.	32MB
August 10, 2010	Bug fix for sun halo during solar eclipses.	2MB
July 27, 2010	Bug fix for networked systems.
July 19, 2010	Nightshade 10.7.1 Correct printing of right-to-left and cursive languages such as Arabic Added 30 more language translations Added Aztec sky culture with art by Enrique Gómez Candelario Show tropic lines on Earth New line width and line antialiasing options Smaller daytime Sun halo with atmosphere on Body orbits fade as body enters/leaves view New "sky_culture" StratoScript command to load custom sky cultures from a script New "nebula" StratoScript command to supplement or replace built in nebulae images using a script	90MB
October 29, 2009	Minor bug fixes with Hindu sky culture artwork.	6MB
October 26, 2009	Performance enhancements. Updated ephemeris algorithms. Added Hindu sky culture, courtesy of Vikas Nautiyal. Constellation boundaries are now defined per culture. Text menu provides feedback when an action is performed. Improved azimuthal grid labels. Added support for partial sphere and cylindrical landscapes. Added rotation parameter for spherical and fisheye landscapes. Added support for day/night landscape images, such as for cityscapes. Added support for mipmapped landscapes. Replaced forest landscape. Added new beach landscape.	12MB
September 28, 2009	Convenience fix with hardware clock updates so that multiple updates are never required.
August 21, 2009	Enables output on a variety of video ports for easier use with a monitor.	2.3MB
June 12, 2009	Fixed bug with saving/loading default media positioning.
June 9, 2009	Fixed bugs with audio volume controls. Added menu item 8.9 which displays platform version and the release date of the last installed software update.
June 5, 2009	Fixed bug with hardware clock not updating. After updating, reboot and update again to update your hardware clock.
June 3, 2009	Updated Spanish translations and bug fixes.
May 27, 2009	Bug fix.