Exposure: Space

🔭 1.2.5

The Analyzer got a power cord, and the sky got 50 new things to point a camera at.

50 new cosmic objects. Alphard, Wezen and the Przybylski star with its impossible chemistry; the Flame, Pacman, Jellyfish and Elephant's Trunk nebulae; the ghostly Malin 1 and the colliding Porpoise Galaxy; WASP-76b where it rains molten iron; ring-wearing Chariklo, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, the Parker Solar Probe and Gaia; M87* — the first black hole ever photographed. All 256 objects were redrawn through the same pixel-art pipeline, so the newcomers sit in the Cosmic Album like they were always there.

Everything in the Solar System drifts now. Planets creep about half a degree an hour, moons and asteroids a little faster, so a shot you lined up last night needs re-aiming tonight.

BETA — Jade overlay (on by default). Look at a working Photo Analyzer and read the study progress, the object's name and the percentage straight off the overlay. Requires Jade on the server as well as the client.

BETA — tech mod energy (off by default). Flip betaEnergyRequired and the Analyzer becomes a real machine with a 5,000 FE buffer: AE2 (it joins the ME grid as a proper network node, so ME cables connect to it and draw from network power), Mekanism / EnderIO / Flux / Pipez on NeoForge, and Tech Reborn / Modern Industrialization and friends on Fabric. No power, no science — the scan pauses and keeps its progress until the electricity comes back.

Stellar View (off by default). Objects you've already studied stay visible in the night sky with the naked eye. The layer politely steps aside while you're aiming through the viewfinder, so photographing them works exactly as before.

The Night Analyzer has a proper GUI — a starfield panel with tonight's event, its luck and analysis multipliers, and the exclusive objects hanging up there, instead of a wall of chat text.

Requires Exposure and Architectury API. Works on dedicated servers — install the same jar on both sides.