The far-plane comment said z = w (the code puts z just under w), the Milky
Way constant is a brightness, not an opacity, and the CDS acknowledgement
lives in the Data attribution popover, not DATA_SOURCES.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The fine 0.4 degree blur kept the residual glow of unresolved stars as
mottled patches at the band's edges. Blend towards a 2 degree blur where
the coarse copy is faint (smoothstep over 0.5-8 % of the range), so the
core keeps its dust lanes and the faint sky goes smooth. Faces 85 -> 62 kB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Away from the galactic plane the ESO panorama keeps a mottled glow of
unresolved stars and dust. With the black level at the darkest quarter of
the sky and a hard cut, it showed as grey clouds with black holes around
the globe. The black level now sits at the median sky and eases in with a
soft knee on luminance, keeping each pixel's hue: high galactic latitudes
are black, the band keeps its glow. Faces shrink from 247 to 85 KB.
The changelog fragment also notes the anime fade and the new asset weight.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
