These are amazing pictures... For more reasons than you may realize...
This is a true testament to how amazing Elite Dangerous is and why it can never be allowed to fail. This is 'Science' hiding as a game! (yes, I am a dramatic person)
This is the kind of nerdy stuff I absolutely LOVE about E.D.O
I went there right after you posted, and things were very different... it was a brown planet, still very pretty and great atmosphere... but not like what you posted!
You have captured the tail-end of a total planetary eclipse.
It is possible 'These' pictures, of 'This' planet may not be captured like this for decades (or at least 10 more days), and when it does happen again, it will likely last for (my guess) only 10-60 minutes. I'm not an astro-physicist so I don't know how to interpret the numbers to know the amount of wobble the Gas giant puts onto its moons, but it might even be possible you will not capture this same image of this particular planet for hundreds of years. This moon has a 11-day rotation around its host gas giant, so if the axis doesn't deviate much this may be able to be seen every 11 days for at least a couple months. The gas giant is brown-ish, so the bloom around atmosphere was a very neutral grey... The star shining through this Bloom seemed to amplify the blue tones of the Carbon Dioxide atmosphere without putting strong enough direct sunlight on the surface below for the brown surface to show through.
In Frameshift Live, they used to have Stellar Screenshot mention and Arf use to alway comment how 'You' may be the only person to ever have a particular pic... This may be an example of that. You may be the only person to have seen this moon like this!
I took pictures yesterday and today so its clearer as to what happened (my first set of pics of 'the alignment' were lost so I had to go back an hour later... you can still see how closely things were lined up though). By today the alignment was far enough apart that people wouldn't notice what happened.
Here's some pics of what the planet looks like in full sun, plus pics of the effects of the Gas giants bloom on my ship (actually you can see the effect of the bloom on your ship too, that's not how that paint looks in full sunlight), and also some pics of the alignment difference from yesterday to today....
(--- I went to chop up the pictures to paste them into 2 or 3 pics to show some of the differences, but Affinity Photo has had so many updates since I last used it, I will have to re-learn it, it's like full Photoshop now... so I'll just group my full pics under spoilers.)
Shortly after your post...
Main star just above mountain
Bloom from the gas Giant (star at edge... star slightly distant) ... plus lighting changes on ship while moving through the bloom...
And here is the alignment shift... I should have taken the first pic from the same angle as the second pic (all three were in alignment), but one of the surface pics shows the alignment better anyway.
These are amazing pictures... For more reasons than you may realize...
This is a true testament to how amazing Elite Dangerous is and why it can never be allowed to fail. This is 'Science' hiding as a game! (yes, I am a dramatic person)
This is the kind of nerdy stuff I absolutely LOVE about E.D.O
I went there right after you posted, and things were very different... it was a brown planet, still very pretty and great atmosphere... but not like what you posted!
You have captured the tail-end of a total planetary eclipse.
It is possible 'These' pictures, of 'This' planet may not be captured like this for decades (or at least 10 more days), and when it does happen again, it will likely last for (my guess) only 10-60 minutes. I'm not an astro-physicist so I don't know how to interpret the numbers to know the amount of wobble the Gas giant puts onto its moons, but it might even be possible you will not capture this same image of this particular planet for hundreds of years. This moon has a 11-day rotation around its host gas giant, so if the axis doesn't deviate much this may be able to be seen every 11 days for at least a couple months. The gas giant is brown-ish, so the bloom around atmosphere was a very neutral grey... The star shining through this Bloom seemed to amplify the blue tones of the Carbon Dioxide atmosphere without putting strong enough direct sunlight on the surface below for the brown surface to show through.
In Frameshift Live, they used to have Stellar Screenshot mention and Arf use to alway comment how 'You' may be the only person to ever have a particular pic... This may be an example of that. You may be the only person to have seen this moon like this!
Yeah, there's a thread from a year or two ago where I landed somewhere similar, but it was definitely a bug rather than anything else. Which was a shame as it was by far the heaviest atmosphere I had seen in EDO.
Slightly click-bait title perhaps. But interesting. This is my first descent to this planet. Wow, I thought. Lovely. But it's a glitch. I took off again, turned around and tried to land again, things looked much more normal, thin atmos, sharp light and shadows in the cockpit...
Oh, I totally forgot today was the 11-day rotation (I got caught up in scavenging Titan-Indra). I wanted to see and maybe record the transition... I know sometimes the lighting changes can be quite sudden like when collecting mats at the Selenium Brain Tree moon at sunset, but then you have some planets with very smooth lighting transitions. So, I guess the next eclipse opportunity will be on the 30th.
EDIT
I went back today (30th), was a tiny bit late and just caught the tail end... but I did get a little rainbow, I haven't seen that before. (the scaled down compressed pic posted is not showing rainbow at edge of atmosphere... only on my full sized pic)
