Comparing a screenshot from this morning to right now, it appears that the planet is slowly waxing and almost full. I'm going to check the time at full disk today, then we can calculate the orbital period and forecast the eclipses (and heavy fog). So, I suppose that we will be the first weather forecasters for this moon!
Just landed on a planet with an atmosphere
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Comparing a screenshot from this morning to right now, it appears that the planet is slowly waxing and almost full. I'm going to check the time at full disk today, then we can calculate the orbital period and forecast the eclipses (and heavy fog). So, I suppose that we will be the first weather forecasters for this moon!
Thanks! That would be so cool! That would make a great addition to the game - random giant monsters on foggy moons that attack your ship! It would be cool to organize squadrons to hunt them down in their lairs, which are littered with the ships they've destroyed!
I have been on some foggy planets but this one is really nice! Great find, congratulations 
...reminded me of a strangest planet i have been myself. It looked like it is bright sunny day in Antarctica...with a sky covered by tick clouds. Guess this is how an atmospheric landing would look like
...reminded me of a strangest planet i have been myself. It looked like it is bright sunny day in Antarctica...with a sky covered by tick clouds. Guess this is how an atmospheric landing would look like
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The last full eclipse was at about 04:48Z on 5/14/2018, and full disk is at about 01:02Z on 5/15/2018 - that's 19h13m. So a full orbit of these sister moons around the parent planet is about 38h26m.
I predict that we can expect another eclipse, and planet-wide fog, at about 20:15Z on 5/15/2018 - tomorrow afternoon. I will get a more accurate time for the total eclipse then, to update the orbit time so that I can more accurately predict future eclipses.
See you there at 20:15Z?
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OK, this is getting crazy. I found a volcanic site on the sister moon (Hyades Sector IB-W b2-6 A 3 b) at 37.3522 -63.3029.
{ "timestamp":"2018-05-13T16:38:43Z", "event":"Scan", "ScanType":"Detailed", "BodyName":"Hyades Sector IB-W b2-6 A 3 b", "BodyID":28, "Parents":[ {"Null":26}, {"Planet":25}, {"Star":1}, {"Null":0} ], "DistanceFromArrivalLS":1183.114014, "TidalLock":false, "TerraformState":"", "PlanetClass":"Icy body", "Atmosphere":"", "AtmosphereType":"None", "Volcanism":"major water geysers volcanism", "MassEM":0.000253, "Radius":559452.687500, "SurfaceGravity":0.322226, "SurfaceTemperature":43.765896, "SurfacePressure":0.000000, "Landable":true, "Materials":[ { "Name":"sulphur", "Percent":28.231892 }, { "Name":"carbon", "Percent":23.740095 }, { "Name":"phosphorus", "Percent":15.198816 }, { "Name":"iron", "Percent":12.766205 }, { "Name":"nickel", "Percent":9.655822 }, { "Name":"zinc", "Percent":3.469376 }, { "Name":"vanadium", "Percent":3.134935 }, { "Name":"zirconium", "Percent":1.482419 }, { "Name":"cadmium", "Percent":0.991354 }, { "Name":"niobium", "Percent":0.872502 }, { "Name":"technetium", "Percent":0.456596 } ], "Composition":{ "Ice":0.824624, "Rock":0.159549, "Metal":0.015828 }, "SemiMajorAxis":1229572.500000, "Eccentricity":0.078854, "OrbitalInclination":-1.252094, "Periapsis":271.986115, "OrbitalPeriod":47924.828125, "RotationPeriod":32914.214844, "AxialTilt":-0.408651 }
{ "timestamp":"2018-05-13T16:38:43Z", "event":"Scan", "ScanType":"Detailed", "BodyName":"Hyades Sector IB-W b2-6 A 3 b", "BodyID":28, "Parents":[ {"Null":26}, {"Planet":25}, {"Star":1}, {"Null":0} ], "DistanceFromArrivalLS":1183.114014, "TidalLock":false, "TerraformState":"", "PlanetClass":"Icy body", "Atmosphere":"", "AtmosphereType":"None", "Volcanism":"major water geysers volcanism", "MassEM":0.000253, "Radius":559452.687500, "SurfaceGravity":0.322226, "SurfaceTemperature":43.765896, "SurfacePressure":0.000000, "Landable":true, "Materials":[ { "Name":"sulphur", "Percent":28.231892 }, { "Name":"carbon", "Percent":23.740095 }, { "Name":"phosphorus", "Percent":15.198816 }, { "Name":"iron", "Percent":12.766205 }, { "Name":"nickel", "Percent":9.655822 }, { "Name":"zinc", "Percent":3.469376 }, { "Name":"vanadium", "Percent":3.134935 }, { "Name":"zirconium", "Percent":1.482419 }, { "Name":"cadmium", "Percent":0.991354 }, { "Name":"niobium", "Percent":0.872502 }, { "Name":"technetium", "Percent":0.456596 } ], "Composition":{ "Ice":0.824624, "Rock":0.159549, "Metal":0.015828 }, "SemiMajorAxis":1229572.500000, "Eccentricity":0.078854, "OrbitalInclination":-1.252094, "Periapsis":271.986115, "OrbitalPeriod":47924.828125, "RotationPeriod":32914.214844, "AxialTilt":-0.408651 }
LOL are those geysers hahaha mini ones then pfff couldn't they make those bigger? also volcanoes lol they are so small
thats cool that those real world effects are in the game... so if it is like this on non atmospheric worlds i could only imagine what it will look on worlds with an atmosphere. ive seen some too its just awesome makes you just sit back and watch sunrise and sunset
Yes, I am making this up as I go along. Why do you ask?
Damn you had me there - good effort!
WOW now those are geysers AWESOME never found any yet and im faaaarrrrr out in deeeep space in my anaconda mhuahahaha all self sufficient wont return to occupied space for a long time, hope we can build a base some day heh that would be soooo nice.
and im faaaarrrrr out in deeeep space in my anaconda mhuahahaha all self sufficient wont return to occupied space for a long time, hope we can build a base some day heh that would be soooo nice. 
Awesome finds. Also major props to exploring in a Corvette. I was wondering, what is your build and jump range? Also how far from the bubble are you?
I've got a 30ly Corvette that I've setup for exploring/expedition fun rather than max range myself (16 SLFs, 4 SRVs, 7A Thrusters with 419m/s boost, and 1605MJ shields for canyon wall mishaps).
I've got a 30ly Corvette that I've setup for exploring/expedition fun rather than max range myself (16 SLFs, 4 SRVs, 7A Thrusters with 419m/s boost, and 1605MJ shields for canyon wall mishaps).
Not OP's planet, but Macros Black recorded this back at our basecamp 2:
[video=youtube;a45_FKFgSPA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45_FKFgSPA[/video]
This is the same system as in Down To Earth Astronomy's video.
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So, 0.6D orbital period for the moon, so about 14.5 hours. If the screenie has been taken at 11:00 (in game time/UTC) yesterday, there should have been another eclipse at 1:30 the next day or so, again at 16:00, and the next one should be around 6:30 tomorrow morning, then 21:00 UTC tomorrow evening
Sorry, by eclipse you do mean another body passing infront of the sun, and therefore casting the body in question into its shadow?
The reason I ask is just once while playing ED I had a total O!M!G! moment - I was driving in bring sunlight in a planet's surface and then a shadow rushed past from behind me, and shooting across the surface into the distance which was seemingly the body I was on entering the shadow of another body crossing the sun (above me).
It was truly impressive to see the shadow rush by me plunging me into darkness. (I wish I'd been videoing at the time, but all I have is a couple of screenshots)
So I'm wondering if the body in discussion here can replicate the phenomenon.
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Can't help thinking there's more underlying foundations for atmospherics already in than we can see...
There's some pretty awesome mist filled ravines on Synuefe VM-D c15-10 2 a too!
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...lly-proud-of?p=6567718&viewfull=1#post6567718
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...lly-proud-of?p=6567718&viewfull=1#post6567718
Yup, i have seen this also. I tried to keep up with it with my SRV but shadow outrunned me..
Yeah, that speedy terminator thing is pretty cool. I suppose it'll happen on that moon just the same, but looking different due to the fog... Hoping to witness this tonight!
Awesome finds. Also major props to exploring in a Corvette. I was wondering, what is your build and jump range? Also how far from the bubble are you?
I've got a 30ly Corvette that I've setup for exploring/expedition fun rather than max range myself (16 SLFs, 4 SRVs, 7A Thrusters with 419m/s boost, and 1605MJ shields for canyon wall mishaps).
I'm actually just messing around just outside the bubble, this is my combat Corvette, she only has a 20ly jump range. My exploring Anaconda I left at Jamison Station, she has a 60ly jump range!
If we could work out if/when it would happen I'd play the game for the first time this year just to see it!