I Saw The Partial Eclipse Of Today In MSFS 2020

[btacon 1,877]

Don’t know where I was but it was before noon PDT and when I saw it I knew exactly what it was, a partial eclipse, but  did not know why.  Then I saw on the news later that there was a partial eclipse that occurred today. Pretty cool

Anyone else?  
 

-B

Edited October 25, 2022 by btacon

[Adamski_NZ 972]

Wow! I saw that yesterday as well - in a virtual flight over the UK. I thought it was a glitch and didn't think to check!

[Ron Attwood 3,561]

SHUT UP! 😲

[btacon 1,877]

6 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

SHUT UP! 😲

Inside joke I’m sure (hope) 😎

[markadeane 274]

What do you see? Momentary dusk effect? Or just the moon blocking the sun?

[MDFlier 2,031]

1 hour ago, btacon said:

Don’t know where I was but it was before noon PDT and when I saw it I knew exactly what it was, a partial eclipse, but  did not know why.  Then I saw on the news later that there was a partial eclipse that occurred today. Pretty cool

Anyone else?  
 

-B

I saw it this morning, too. Was flying Denver to Vegas at sunrise. I don't think I should have been able to see it from there IRL, but it was cool nonetheless.

[btacon 1,877]

12 minutes ago, MDFlier said:

I saw it this morning, too. Was flying Denver to Vegas at sunrise. I don't think I should have been able to see it from there IRL, but it was cool nonetheless.

Yeah, I think was in EMEA truth be told. EGAALOWI milk-run 😎. I also have video I believe. I’ll edit a clip and post it back to this thread in the next twenty four hours.

 

Edited October 26, 2022 by btacon

[HiFlyer 9,410]

Its been documented previously. I had reminded myself to mention it to @jcomm but forgot.... 

 

 

[Glenn Fitzpatrick 3,799]

Pretty cool.

They do need to fix the upside down moon relative to the horizon when viewing from the Southern Hemisphere though.

[MarcG 3,072]

Partial eclipses have been in the Sim since launch, unfortunately Total Eclipses are not possible (and neither is the darkening effect).

[jcomm 6,064]

WOW !!!

Have to try it in XP12... 

I know it works that way too in FlightGear.

[Bdub22 1,639]

Sometimes I have to pinch myself that we're this lucky. To have a AAA sim platform that has things like this and is still being updated every month...with free planes like the IniBuilds A310 no less, is truly remarkable. Especially if you compare where flight simulation was a little over 3 years ago. 

Edited October 26, 2022 by Bdub22

[Christopher Low 5,416]

The total solar eclipse in 1991 July 11 was nowhere near Russia, so I am not sure what that second video title is all about.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,057]

6 hours ago, MDFlier said:

I saw it this morning, too. Was flying Denver to Vegas at sunrise. I don't think I should have been able to see it from there IRL, but it was cool nonetheless.

Given the sun was below the horizon there when the eclipse occurred then no, you shouldn’t.

29% of the sun was eclipsed at 09:50 Zulu here in England and an hour later it was all over.

[MDFlier 2,031]

If you pause the 1st video at 15 seconds, that's what the sun looked like as it rose departing Denver. The left side was missing a piece. I had to search the web to find out there really was an eclipse today and then I realized I should not have seen it from my location.