14 hours ago, radar18alien said:

The MFS2020 Clip title Lake TekapoApril either MS created this sample flight in April or they are depicting the season being flown in as April, your guess is as good as mine as they say.

 I just don't know ...

As a NZ'er living in the Southern Hemisphere, the Sun (as well as the Moon and the stars) still rises in the East and sets in the West. Being a real world Pilot having flown in the area comparing the FS2020 Lake TekapoApril clip the Northern direction is the top right corner of the clip.   The top left corner is the West this makes the Sun appearance as being top centre and shows the Godley River (aptly named Why ?) which is an alpine braided river flowing into Lake Tekapo.

I see that we agree on one point. The sun rises in the East and sets in the West :) ! Not being a real pilot and having never flown there , just looking at Google Earth I see th two forks of the river feeding the lake on a almost straight  N/S axis. So the bloom is slightly on the NNW.

The bloom lighting effect refraction is caused by the likely possible, Southern Hemisphere Autumn (Fall) Season of April in the early afternoon 1- 2pm Sun bouncing across through the mountain range hilltop covering of some amazing looking scattered Cumulus Cloud onto, one of the main arterial Godley Alpine River mouth entrances that flow into Lake Tekapo a large body of Blue colouring glacial lake formed with origins from glacier activity. The river's headwaters are in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park Southern Alps. Location South Island, New Zealand.

The bloom  would come from a Fall sun (relatively low) bouncing from the snowy peaks and the clouds behind . That is the explanation ! 

Thanks you, you two guys from NZ, for shedding some light (pun intended) on the matter ! 

 

 

Thanks! My remarks in purple.

Here’s a sun path chart for Dunedin which is close by. For April the highest point of the sun above the horizon is about 36 degrees  

https://www.victoria.ac.nz/architecture/centres/cbpr/resources/pdfs/dunedin_sunpath.pdf

Edited September 15, 20196 yr by NZ255

On 9/13/2019 at 6:42 AM, domkle said:

I've little doubt that the MS team knows that sun rises to the East, peaks to the North (in NZ) and sets to the West.

They *do* own Minecraft now, where the last time I looked at that game, the sun followed a north/south path. 😉

 

 

12 minutes ago, eslader said:

They *do* own Minecraft now, where the last time I looked at that game, the sun followed a north/south path. 😉

 

 

Uh oh 😁...