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Homestar 2021: twinkling stars and the Milky Way are different views

The Japanese optical model offers a particular mood of changing light. Its documented Milky Way disc does not add twinkling to the larger star count.

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Homestar 2021: twinkling stars and the Milky Way are different views
SANJIESAN original concept scene, not a product photograph.

Choose the movement you want to watch

For the Homestar renewal announced in 2021, SEGA makes twinkling a specific attraction, alongside revised shooting stars and built-in nature sounds. This is a reason to investigate that named Japanese optical model when the pleasure is watching a changing star field in an ordinary room. It is a different request from filling a ceiling with the largest possible advertised number of points. The effect can be the subject of the choice, rather than an extra feature assumed to accompany every image.

The denser sky has an explicit boundary

The current brand explanation says its Japanese-sky/Milky Way disc can show around 60,000 stars, then explicitly notes that stars do not twinkle with that disc. Choose the dense Milky Way view if that is the picture you want; choose the supported twinkling presentation when the changing light is the attraction. Do not add the two descriptions into an imagined single mode. The same page documents 30/60-minute timers, which can suit a deliberately bounded viewing session. A person primarily seeking films or a story played across the ceiling is asking for another type of content; these optical-disc features are not that promise.

Sources & further reading

Editorial review date:

  1. SEGA FAVE Homestar: optical views and explicit twinkle exclusion
  2. SEGA 2021 Homestar renewal announcement: the named generation
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