NearLight

NEW IN 1.7.0 • Start Guide: an interactive tour of all five views, for newcomers and pros (Mac & iPad) • NearLight now speaks French • Revised Optics: Newtonians show coma, the achromat refractors wear their violet fringe, bright planets dazzle the eye — and Mercury's day side finally shines • Calibrated under a real night sky: object brightness per Bortle class, the eyepiece background now carries the light-pollution glow, and the field stop is pitch black • Red light mode in both observing views and the app remembers red light across restarts • Audio mute is beeing saved across restarts • Smoother sky transitions, the view reaches the zenith, and the target readout no longer flickers between close objects • New filter sounds, a Jeep at the Rocky Mountains site, twilight colors on the Moon's shadow side • Easier on the battery: GPS takes a single fix and the renderer rests when you do FIXED • Startup crash on older iPads (4 GB devices)