Horizons Lat Long and ????

Ok, Bored waiting for my wanted status to clear up so I am starting on a project I set for myself when I became a planetary salvage entrepreneur.

Built a Dolphin with a 68 T cargo capacity, set down on a planet with all the stuff to do basic SRV repairs/restocking and started looking for POI's. Two goals here. Collect commodities and look for Compact Composites, that very rare supposedly Very common Manufactured Material, for Chaff Reload.

A side project was to see if the POI's were recurring or not.

I now have at least 14 Screen shots taken at POI's and I am going to record the location information in a spread sheet to look for convergences that would indicate that the POI's tend to "respawn" at the same locations like many of the other things do. If you spend enough time in one general area on a planet, saving and reloading, you too will start to become familiar with the big rocks.

My question is, what is that 3rd number in the Lat, Long column?? Is that column actually Lat, then Long then whatever???
 
Top number is latitude, middle is longitude, bottom is indeed the gravity in number of g's, 1.00 g's being the Earth standard.
 
D.D.:

For a minute....no second...I thought you were referring to "minutes and seconds"

...you know the third number...uh...never mind:p

Bizz
 
This is how I do it.


1 Approach with body on your left.
This will keep the coordinates over space so you can actually read them.

Use yaw to change altitude and use pitch to change heading while orbiting.
As long as you stay high it's fast and easy.
Use the instruments!


2 As soon as the compass hud appears but before you enter "orbital flight" (the blue line if you have orbital lines on), 0 your throttle, level off and check the top number on the coordinates display.
This is your latitude.
If it's higher than you want, head directly south, ie 180.
If it's lower, head north ie 0.
Whole numbers, even tens, are sufficient.


3 While you approach that latitude check the longitude, the second number.
If its higher than you want, you will need to turn to 270, or due west.
If it's lower head to 90, due east.
Turning takes about 5-10 deg if you manage your speed.


4 Once you are within ~10 deg of your final location, begin your descent and land.

When you get better you can split angles to save some time.


Fly safe and enjoy the view!
o7
 
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4 Once you are within ~10 deg of your final location, begin your descent and land.

When you get better you can split angles to save some time.


Fly safe and enjoy the view!
o7

I have now set down twice right in the middle of Dave's Hope.

Pretty much as you wrote except I split the angles while still in very slow Orbital Flight and then dropped out when I got both within 3 DEG.

From where I was at about 75KM high, I set 0 throttle and the worked out pitch and roll settings so that as I used the down thrusters to reduce altitude I was also closing in on the final coordinates.

I had to do it twice because when I got there the first time, I realized I had left my SRV Hanger in storage 23+ LY away and had to go back and get it.
 
I have now set down twice right in the middle of Dave's Hope.

Pretty much as you wrote except I split the angles while still in very slow Orbital Flight and then dropped out when I got both within 3 DEG.

From where I was at about 75KM high, I set 0 throttle and the worked out pitch and roll settings so that as I used the down thrusters to reduce altitude I was also closing in on the final coordinates.

I had to do it twice because when I got there the first time, I realized I had left my SRV Hanger in storage 23+ LY away and had to go back and get it.


Nice!

Once you've been there it should show up on your nav panel, so you won't have to use coordinates at all.
Some POIs you will need to scan first, like the crashed Thargoid scout ship in the Pleiades, but I don't think you need to scan Dav's(?).
You should check out all the data points there that said, pretty cool story.


Lol about the SRV, we've all been there...
It won't be your last time I'd wager.
 
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