Actually I just loaded up the Harvest moon night and found I had a full moon. I posted because I remember just a few days before I had no where close to a full moon so I thought that there was no way I would have a full moon on the night of the full moon so I too fall in that "it aint right" category.NP

...but dumb enough to draw the moon at half full on September 9th :)

I see what they're doing now though:They've broken the lunar cycle into seven 4-day phases w/ a couple days allotted for the new moon at the end of each cycle:These include:waxing crescentfirst quarterwaxing gibbousfull moonwaning gibbouslast quarterwaning crescentAlas, the waxing gibbous moon and first quarter moon in FS use nearly identical artwork. In fact, waxing gibbous looks just like first quarter - only rotated 5 degrees or so. So it appears in FS that first quarter lasts a full 8 days and then suddenly pops to a full moon.I didn't notice this in FS2002 because I was using Chris Willis' moon textures. Hopefully, he will address this in his FS2004 release also.In the interim, I created a new waxing gibbous bmp which looks more like the moon is 2/3 full rather than 1/2. Just drop this in your FS2004TEXTURE folder.

I went kind of cheap on the telescope and kind of regretting it now, (was saving up for addons!), it's an Orion 6" reflector.Been reading up on making a larger Dobson type, it's quite daunting but the engineers at work said they'd help me any way the could and let me use equipment at work. The mirror will still cost a bundle making it myself, I'll have to save save save. Shooting for at least a 24".Will get there someday :)

>I see what they're doing now though:>>They've broken the lunar cycle into seven 4-day phases w/ a>couple days allotted for the new moon at the end of each>I suspected something to be the case. Good find.Michael J.

Whoa, 24 inches! You should get some good views with that. Right now I have a LX200 8 inch classic that I've been using for 2 years. There's nothing quite like being out under the stars after the neighborhood goes to sleep, and doing some observing.Tim13

Hi Jase, "I didn't notice this in FS2002 because I was using Chris Willis' moon textures"My fs2002; moon, generic night texture works in fs2004.RegardsChrisThanksChris Willis[link:fsw.simflight.com/FSWMenuFsSim.html]Clouds And Addons For MsFs

They do, except for the fact that MS has added "moon glow" textures in FS9 which are sized to work with their original artwork. The moon is also visibly much smaller in FS2004 with your 2002 textures installed for some reason.

I was looking for a full moon in FS2004 tonight to do some comparing of moon textures. I couldn't find one. Googled "FS2004 full moon". Found this thread only 8+ years old. Set FS time to Sep. 11, 2003. Voilia! A beautiful full moon.I'm still amazed by this sim. Thanks to the posters from many years ago!

How did this wind up in the FSX forum?