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I Saw The Partial Eclipse Of Today In MSFS 2020

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11 hours ago, btacon said:

Inside joke I’m sure (hope) 😎

Young person's vernacular meaning 'Amazing!, I don't believe it!. Fantastic!, Totally wicked (wicked = really good)

Hope that helps.

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45 minutes ago, Ron Attwood said:

Young person's vernacular meaning 'Amazing!, I don't believe it!. Fantastic!, Totally wicked (wicked = really good)

Hope that helps.

Ahh, “My bad” 🫣🫣🫣

It does, thx.

-B

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3 hours ago, Ron Attwood said:

Young person's vernacular meaning 'Amazing!, I don't believe it!. Fantastic!, Totally wicked (wicked = really good)

Hope that helps.

Understanding Gen Z is an artform.  This video might help ...

 

 

46 minutes ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Understanding Gen Z is an artform.  This video might help ...

I know all I need to know about Gen Z. But thanks anyway. 😉

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1 hour ago, Ron Attwood said:

I know all I need to know about Gen Z. But thanks anyway. 😉

Need to or want to?  Anyway, maybe stick to saying 'champion!' next time, like other old codgers do, so that people don't take you out of context! :laugh:

Regarding the eclipses.  I have seen a few in the sim now, but it's quite difficult to see a full eclipse for some reason.  It only seems to do the partial, even when it should be full.

Funny how they program this in but then the moon orientation doesn't change with latitude. Looks the same way up in the UK as it does in Australia apparently. :blink:

Rob (but call me Bob or Rob, I don't mind).

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2 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Understanding Gen Z is an artform.

I watched this after your linked video...
I clearly am a 'geriatric millennial' that they call my age cohort, cause I just don't get it. 👴
 

36 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

Funny how they program this in but then the moon doesn't change with latitude. Looks the same way up in the UK as it does in Australia apparently.

Agreed, that should be changed. Bit more obvious and frequent than a solar eclipse.
 

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If you are going to simulate solar and lunar eclipses in a flight simulator, then you need to do it properly. Just slapping an image of a partially eclipsed Sun on the screen for any location on Earth simply because that date is logged as a solar eclipse date is a bit silly.

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51 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

If you are going to simulate solar and lunar eclipses in a flight simulator, then you need to do it properly. Just slapping an image of a partially eclipsed Sun on the screen for any location on Earth simply because that date is logged as a solar eclipse date is a bit silly.

Welp, as far as I know there's no other SIM out there besides Outerra ( which depicts both solar and lunar eclipses) that bothers to do even that much....

(Space engine does as well)

Meanwhile, seems subject has come up before, with no movement, so I doubt it's a issue that's on asobos radar.

My ancient video of an eclipse in Outerra

 

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2 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

If you are going to simulate solar and lunar eclipses in a flight simulator, then you need to do it properly. Just slapping an image of a partially eclipsed Sun on the screen for any location on Earth simply because that date is logged as a solar eclipse date is a bit silly.

50 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

Welp, as far as I know there's no other SIM out there besides Outerra ( which depicts both solar and lunar eclipses) that bothers to do even that much....

Well this is what it looked like in the other sim...  

https://photos.app.goo.gl/GZsuZCXjiomUsLa99 

 

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5 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

If you are going to simulate solar and lunar eclipses in a flight simulator, then you need to do it properly. Just slapping an image of a partially eclipsed Sun on the screen for any location on Earth simply because that date is logged as a solar eclipse date is a bit silly.

They didn't just 'slap' and image up, you can watch the movement happen, the moon is a moving (2D) object in the sky. HiFlyer posted a video last page of time lapse of a total eclipse in MSFS.

But yes having it show up everywhere is an issue, and their movement calculations are off.

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4 hours ago, psolk said:

Well this is what it looked like in the other sim...  

 

Not bad! 

I have noticed that the sky at night has improved over x-plane 11 in 12 as well. one can now see constellations and differences in star magnitudes are better defined.

I would like to see (in both sims) 

1. the big planets at the right place at the right time
2. Andromeda Nebula should be visible to the naked eye, especially with these superb sky conditions showing the milky way (overdone)
3. Full moon should make milky way invisible
4. If I go back in time 7000 years i should not see Polaris exactly pointing North LOL

I'm joking of course although points 1 and 3 would be very welcome immersion factors.

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48 minutes ago, avhpilot said:

Not bad! 

I have noticed that the sky at night has improved over x-plane 11 in 12 as well. one can now see constellations and differences in star magnitudes are better defined.

I would like to see (in both sims) 

1. the big planets at the right place at the right time
2. Andromeda Nebula should be visible to the naked eye, especially with these superb sky conditions showing the milky way (overdone)
3. Full moon should make milky way invisible
4. If I go back in time 7000 years i should not see Polaris exactly pointing North LOL

I'm joking of course although points 1 and 3 would be very welcome immersion factors.

That was P3D... 🙂  

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1 minute ago, psolk said:

That was P3D... 🙂  

yeah right . 

(is there a sarcastic mode smiley that i can use?)

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11 minutes ago, psolk said:

That was P3D... 🙂  

Well now I'm confused. I had read that XP11 had eclipses at one point and that XP12 currently did not.

And I have no idea about p3d.

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