How cool is that!?! Earth eclipse in Orbiter seen from Moon

[dougkeenan]

Here I am debugging ships at Brighton, and when I load a Date MJD ; scenario all of a sudden my ships are red! Before panic ensued about what changed in the code, I looked "up" to see Earth crossing in front of the sun. A little time compression and the ships went all the way to black, then back to red, and then back to normal.

This is probably old hat but it just blew me away.

 

[Woo482]

can I have that scenario code ?

 

[dougkeenan]

My scenario includes a yet-unreleased ship so it wouldn't be any good. But here's the standard DG at BB scenario with the Date set just a little bit ago. The eclipse is just beginning.

BEGIN_DESC
Launch from the Moon: A Delta-glider ready for takeoff from a pad at Brighton Beach Lunar Spaceport.  Look up to see the Earth cross the sun!
END_DESC
BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT
  System Sol
  Date MJD 54694.8
END_ENVIRONMENT
BEGIN_FOCUS
  Ship GL-NT
END_FOCUS
BEGIN_CAMERA
  TARGET GL-NT
  MODE Extern
  POS 69.13 -88.08 -46.90
  TRACKMODE Ground Moon
  GROUNDLOCATION -33.43750 41.12527 117.50
  FOV 50.00
END_CAMERA
BEGIN_HUD
  TYPE Surface
END_HUD
BEGIN_MFD Left
  TYPE Launch
END_MFD
BEGIN_MFD Right
  TYPE Map
  REF Moon
  BTARGET Brighton Beach
END_MFD
BEGIN_SHIPS
ISS:ProjectAlpha_ISS
  STATUS Orbiting Earth
  ELEMENTS 6734914.2 0.00090 74.51300 169.03397 328.28777 438.61137 51985.24000440
  AROT 30.00 0.00 50.00
END
Mir
  STATUS Orbiting Earth
  ELEMENTS 6671000 0.0006 3.5 0 0 0 51544.5
  AROT 0 -45 90
END
Luna-OB1:Wheel
  STATUS Orbiting Moon
  ELEMENTS 2238013.8 0.00000 89.99990 0.00019 0.00019 297.04727 51985.24000440
  AROT 0.00 0.00 -159.44
  VROT 0 0 10
END
PB-01:ShuttlePB
  STATUS Landed Moon
  BASE Brighton Beach:2
  HEADING 220.00
  FUEL 1.000
  NAVFREQ 484 124
END
GL-01:DeltaGlider
  STATUS Landed Earth
  BASE Habana:2
  HEADING 174.13
  FUEL 1.000
  GEAR 1 1.0
  NOSECONE 0 0.0000
END
GL-NT:DeltaGlider
  STATUS Landed Moon
  BASE Brighton Beach:4
  HEADING 70.00
  FUEL 1.000
  GEAR 1 1.0
  NOSECONE 0 0.0000
END
SH-02:ShuttleA
  STATUS Landed Moon
  BASE Brighton Beach:5 
  HEADING 43.18
  FUEL 1.000
END
GL-02:DeltaGlider
  STATUS Landed Mars
  BASE Olympus:3
  HEADING 0.00
  FUEL 1.000
  GEAR 1 1.0
  NOSECONE 0 0.0000
END
END_SHIPS

 

[Woo482]

ok thanks

 

[n0mad23]

Very cool, indeed! I love the surprises afforded by Orbiter.

Thanks for posting the scenario.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Wow! I didn't know Orbiter would make ships red even that far away! Too bad the moon doesn't turn red in Orbiter during lunar eclipse. (and too bad the Earth doesn't cast shadows onto the moon)

 

[astrosammy]

I made that on the eclipse in february. It was on my way back to earth, and suddenly it was dark. I were outside with my telescope for a few hours watching the eclipse today, I'll upload some photos to the gallery.

 

[FordPrefect]

I noticed that effect during the previous eclipse in February this year, too.

...now, if one would split the Earth-facing hemisphere of the moon in several hundred ships, each having the mesh of the corresponding part of the surface (like the moon 3d add-on mesh), it should be possible to even have a partial lunar eclipse shown pretty realistically?!

 

[astrosammy]

Maybe it works with Orulex? If not, it would be a good idea to make a simple ship using the Moon-3D addon mesh.

 

[johnny]

What about these addon ships of yours - what are they going to be?

 

[dougkeenan]

Powerful and fast. But it is not quite ready ...

 

[EJ316]

Awesome! I'm gonna have to go up to the Moon using the date and stuff you've given and then go on a nice spacewalk to view the eclipse. Cool pictures.

 

[Robsoie]

Using the date provided in the scenario, going on Moon orbit and observing around with some field of view zooming, it is superb. Definitively not your everyday view.







Thanks for the date, i really liked this impressive eclipse.