Recent content by Tycho6

I only just checked back on this to see if anyone had said something new, and I discover there's a whole new Orion! Fantastic job, atomicdryad! Many thanks for this.

I just tested the latest LolaMFD, and it has fixed the NaNSpace problem, at least as far as my landings on Europa go. Nicely done! :tiphat: If I may be permitted one minor gripe, is there any way to remove the text which now shows up on the lower left of the screen when LolaMFD is enabled? It's...

Venturing outside our solar system, here are two amazing images. This is a Chandra X-ray image of a gas cloud illuminated by energy from a pulsar. The resemblance to a human hand, albeit a three-fingered cartoon character's hand, is uncanny. I dread to think what the 'face on Mars' crowd think...

For the Europa partisans, a view from Voyager 1. :salute: Also in the icy moon category, the fascinating Enceladus. One of the growing list of moons that really deserves its own orbiter and lander. Better yet, a manned expedition. Perhaps one day...

NaNspace? Hah, I hadn't heard that one before, though I have seen it before. :lol: I tried landing at Brighton Beach from LLO, and LolaMFD pulled it off perfectly. As I did that from a lower orbit (44 km v. 80 km) I tried again at Europa from an even lower altitude on the off chance there is...

I tried this new Lola version while trying to land a DG at the UCGO Europa base. I enter an orbit which carries me over the base, activate LolaMFD, and wait for it to start the burn. Within about 30 seconds of starting the burn it inevitably fails. The first two times it was a CTD. Now it...

This is one I quite like. It reminds me of sitting outside in the cold with my old Dobsonian scope, watching Io transit. I'm also a fan of photos which remind us those distant points of light are real, three-dimensional places.