Solar Eclipses

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
Hay Cmdrs

A few weeks ago I was floating around a couple of small worlds in close orbit around each other, and in close orbit around their star. I thought I would hang around to see if one of the planet's shadows would fall across the other planet...a solar eclipse for the second planet. But the planets were moving too slow and I didn't want to wait around until they fell in line with the sun.

After viewing many more such systems I have never seen a planet eclipsing another's sun light.

Has anybody else seen this? Got pics?

Or does ED not cater to this? Obviously it considers shadows of each individual world to create the light/dark side of a world, but does a world throw a shadow on another world?

Frawd
 

iain666

iain666
Never noticed that happen, but never noticed it not happen when it should either. I'll look out for it now.

Planets do cast shadows on their own rings - check gas giants with loads of moons, if the planet can cast a shadow on the moon then I'd presume binary planets can cast shadows on each other if you catch them at the right time. I'm going to assume that this does work until proven wrong though.
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
iain666 said:
Never noticed that happen, but never noticed it not happen when it should either. I'll look out for it now.

Planets do cast shadows on their own rings - check gas giants with loads of moons, if the planet can cast a shadow on the moon then I'd presume binary planets can cast shadows on each other if you catch them at the right time. I'm going to assume that this does work until proven wrong though.
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On a similar note, one thing I've noticed (or think I have) is that stars that shine through the portion of rings in shadow don't seem to be dimmed by the ring material.
 

Iron Orchid

Iron Orchid
Cmdr Frawd Digger said:
Hay Cmdrs

A few weeks ago I was floating around a couple of small worlds in close orbit around each other, and in close orbit around their star. I thought I would hang around to see if one of the planet's shadows would fall across the other planet...a solar eclipse for the second planet. But the planets were moving too slow and I didn't want to wait around until they fell in line with the sun.

After viewing many more such systems I have never seen a planet eclipsing another's sun light.

Has anybody else seen this? Got pics?

Or does ED not cater to this? Obviously it considers shadows of each individual world to create the light/dark side of a world, but does a world throw a shadow on another world?

Frawd
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I'm sure I've seen this at the ruins.
 

Qohen Leth

Qohen Leth
With a bit of luck and timing, you can be on a surface right at the moment either when the night is falling or when a neighbouring planet is provoking an eclipse. I witnessed that a couple times, even seeing the night coming my way for a full minute, and then falling on my SRV in a split second. Pretty awesome :)
 

thundernuns

thundernuns
I saw this happen at one of the alien crash sites. It was the darkest I've ever seen ED, you could only see the ground illuminated by the SRV lights and the outline of the landscape against the sky
 

NeilF

NeilF
Qohen Leth said:
With a bit of luck and timing, you can be on a surface right at the moment either when the night is falling or when a neighbouring planet is provoking an eclipse. I witnessed that a couple times, even seeing the night coming my way for a full minute, and then falling on my SRV in a split second. Pretty awesome :)
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I was driving on a planet once in darkness and all of a sudden a wall of light overtook/came across me throwing me into daylight. I could see the line of the shadow zooming away from me into the distance.

I was seemingly in the shadow of a close neighbouring planet, and as it moved, its shadow gave way to daylight. It caught me completely unaware and all I managed to do was think to press F10 a few times...

Note the shadow rushing away on the hillside. Shot roughly 1sec apart.
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Kalpa

Kalpa
Ha so THAT's what it was the other day... I thought my graphics card bugged out or something, flickered everything to dark and some minutes later back bright daylight again.
 

NeilF

NeilF
Kalpa said:
Ha so THAT's what it was the other day... I thought my graphics card bugged out or something, flickered everything to dark and some minutes later back bright daylight again.
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When it happened to me I looked up and could see a planet partially over the sun... But TBH, the effect was so clear with daylight/shadow rushing past me and then across the landscape once I'd caught my breath (because it was a woooooooaahhh moment!) I realised what it must be and then looked up....

I stayed on that planet for a few days hope the alignment might happen again, but unsurprisingly... no!
 

varonica

varonica
Hi Frawd, came across this event a couple of weeks ago, there I was sitting on this planet when a sudden wave of darkness swept over me, and I looked up and saw this;

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A few minutes later this is all I could see!

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