I'm not sure if this topic has been brought up or not, or if there is a fix for it. I cannot seem to locate an answer when I search but here goes. I have noticed that when the moon is visible in the sky when flying FSX, it appears to be upside down and reversed like you would see in a telescope. Is there a way to correct this?

I will try to post this here. The last place I posted I got several smart answers and a notice not to post there, so I hope this is the correct forum to post this. The above quote refers to flying north of the equator.

Look, the same smart answers here too!!

I will try to post this here. The last place I posted I got several smart answers and a notice not to post there, so I hope this is the correct forum to post this. The above quote refers to flying north of the equator.

Wow! The things people notice. And that's not a smart answer. I'm just impressed you spotted it. I would never have guessed... :( Ian

While I'm with the others in not knowing which side is up as far as the moon goes, I'll try to give more than a funny answer. There are textures for the moon phases in the FSX textures folder (moon1.bmp thru moon15.bmp). If you have the free application DTXBmp, it is easy to flip the texture vertically and save it.Since I don't have enough knowledge of the moon landscape, it will be of no use to me to change it.

Nothing wrong with the moon in my FSX, here it is in FSX, plus a picture of it seen from Earth. Seems to be the right way around, notice the location of the Sea of Tranquility in both FSX and on the photo, where Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 landed, unless you are one of those tin foil hat wearing loons who thinks NASA never went to the moon (The Sea of Tranquility is the big dark bit in the top right half side, for those not familiar with the topography):Al

At the risk of sounding like a lunatic, do you perhaps have an add-on that changed the moon's texture set? I ask because the standard .DDS format is flipped vertically from the way the images show in an image editor, requiring users to flip them before converting from BMP or some other format to DDS. If someone forgot to do that with your moon add-on, it could explain it. Then again, I might just be howling at nothing.

That might be true for my FSX, but as far as I'm aware that's the moon as it comes in FSX, if something has changed it, then it has done it without me knowing about it.Al

HiWon't it also depend on which hemisphere you are viewing the moon from?We get a different view down-under! :( RegardsPeterH

Lol, that’s a great point ;)I just tried Adelaide - sure enough the moon is ‘upside-down’ ;)Back home again, and it’s right side up....phew!I wonder what FSX does at the equator?

It shows 2 moons, one upside down and one right side up.

Ironically, I just updated to some new hi-rez moon textures a few days ago - they look fine but the size of the moon in FSX seems way to big to me?? Is there a moon effect.cfg file like the sun where you can change the size?

No, it's all based on the size in the texture file.

It shows 2 moons, one upside down and one right side up.

That makes sense - just like Tatooine.

Or it shows a moon on it's side because it's starting to rotate from one hemisphere to another.What about my bathtub at the equator, what way would the water spin, or wouldn't it spin at all?

Here's a pic of the moon in my FSX. Should I be concerned?