The Sureyyasoft (http://www.sureyyasoft.com) team, represented by Steven Gray, attended the Nordic Planetarium Association (NPA) conference hosted by the Ahhaa Planetarium in Tartu, Estonia. Sureyyasoft will also sponsor the NPA for two years.
https://www.npa-planetarium.org/npa2025

 This version includes significant improvements.

- Improvements have been made to the display of illumbra's specially formatted volumetric 3D models.

The ability to display approximately 30 3D volumetric models from Ilumbra Astrophysical Media (https://ilumbra.com/) has been added. Pricing information for each model is available for users wishing to use these models in their Shira Universe planetariums. Please contact Sureyyasoft for pricing and licensing information.

Ray Digital (https://lnkd.in/dc9msjud) presented digital interactive solutions for astronomy education at the 2025 Ningbo Siming Mountain Astronomy Forum in July. Sureyyasoft's China distributor team demonstrated high performance, completing the launch of the Shira Universe and Shira NOAA Explorer products.

The main operations performed in this version are as follows.

- Added buttons to show/close individual planets and planetary orbits. Planets and planetary orbits can be turned on or off individually, operated from the orbit's definition popup panel.

- Added of the 12 signs of the zodiac to the constellation Ophiuchus, according to the criteria for the signs of the zodiac as defined by the Commission for the Validation of Proper Names of the International Astronomical Association. 

- On the the preview view, with the telescope zoomed in, provides mouse wheel to adjust the magnification.

- Made an improvement to dynamically adjust the center of the Shooting Star spawn. 

- For the display of stars, added an option to categorize them by magnitude - e.g., select 5th magnitude, i.e., stars below 5th magnitude are displayed, stars above 5th magnitude are not. Added Enable Button and Slider for magnitude. Removed brighten and darken buttons.

- Added function option for the ecliptic, either by month or by degrees for ecliptic line.

- Added single "Sun Show" and "Name Button" controls.  

- Fixed some bugs 

The main operations performed in this version are as follows.

- Sphere Inner Projection added

- Added plugin structure support

- Added ability to select audio tracks

- Improvements have been made to the Player Status view

- PJLink connection problems fixed

- Omnidome calibration support removed. 

- User Guide is updated