Best technique for finding fumeroles/geysers?

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Despite a lot of dedicated searching, I have yet to find one.

 

[varonica]

Has anyone noticed, of those who have found them, if being on the day or night side of the planet has any bearing on the appearance of geysers?

Apart from the fact that it is much easier to find them in the light, yes some do appear to die down. Despite complaints about the lighting some planets get really dark! I have dropped down into canyons so black it feels like you're sinking in a pool of oil, and ships lights suddenly feel very inadequate to identify whether that little POI was just an outcrop or a field of geysers.

Some seem to die down almost completely during the night, I would expect these to be the cold features, carbon dioxide geysers etc and that's the behaviour I would expect from features driven by the heat of the star, iron magma fumaroles I would expect to be active all the time since I wouldn't expect the stars heat to be responsible for something that hot, but I haven't really had the opportunity to test properly. One of my iron magma sites was very active in the late dusk when I found it, pinpoints of red light all over the valley floor and up the walls.

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

Apart from the fact that it is much easier to find them in the light, yes some do appear to die down. Despite complaints about the lighting some planets get really dark! I have dropped down into canyons so black it feels like you're sinking in a pool of oil, and ships lights suddenly feel very inadequate to identify whether that little POI was just an outcrop or a field of geysers.

Some seem to die down almost completely during the night, I would expect these to be the cold features, carbon dioxide geysers etc and that's the behaviour I would expect from features driven by the heat of the star, iron magma fumaroles I would expect to be active all the time since I wouldn't expect the stars heat to be responsible for something that hot, but I haven't really had the opportunity to test properly. One of my iron magma sites was very active in the late dusk when I found it, pinpoints of red light all over the valley floor and up the walls.

I was also complaining, but I'm just being now reminded to how dark it can get, being at the outer rim... I love it!
For me this is the biggest issue with the otherwise spectacular core area, you can't escape the light!