Chasing The Sun. April 8th Eclipse Watching In MSFS 2020

[MarcG 3,031]

2 minutes ago, FormulaJet said:

Changing time and date ingame works, gonna try it when I get back from holiday

Yep, it was one of the very first things I did in this Sim shortly after release, picking a previous Eclipse and going to that date.

[jcomm 6,004]

Very good video !

Viewing The 2024 Solar Eclipse in Microsoft Flight Simulator - YouTube

This proofs HOW GOOD! MSFS 2020 really is at reproducing some aspects of the Real World !

I have to take my hat off to this sort of details !!!

 

Edited April 9 by jcomm

[regis9 4,039]

Wow…kudos to the team at Asobo for doing this!

[Lonesome Cowboy Burt 172]

3 hours ago, jcomm said:

Very good video !

Viewing The 2024 Solar Eclipse in Microsoft Flight Simulator - YouTube

This proofs HOW GOOD! MSFS 2020 really is at reproducing some aspects of the Real World !

I have to take my hat off to this sort of details !!!

 

I can't understand why it can show totality in the 1991 eclipse but not in the 2024 eclipse??

[jcomm 6,004]

4 minutes ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

I can't understand why it can show totality in the 1991 eclipse but not in the 2024 eclipse??

Probably different observation points relative to the eclipse 100% line (?)

[Mace 1,956]

21 hours ago, btacon said:

Share your thoughts and plans here.  Me, I’m going to try to keep in the path of totality as much as possible. Don’t know if the sim will recreate totality but it does present eclipses.

-B

Be careful.  On the official forums I was told that "it didn't matter" how fast I needed to go to keep up with totality.

I didn't ask if it mattered.  I asked how fast I needed to go.

[Tuskin38 6,635]

1 hour ago, Lonesome Cowboy Burt said:

I can't understand why it can show totality in the 1991 eclipse but not in the 2024 eclipse??

outdated calculations probably.

Edited April 9 by Tuskin38

[Christopher Low 5,393]

Where was this guy viewing the 1991 eclipse? The path of totality for that one did not cross mainland USA.

[Lonesome Cowboy Burt 172]

1 hour ago, jcomm said:

Probably different observation points relative to the eclipse 100% line (?)

I used the Nasa site to track totality, can't imagine they got it wrong and I only got the same view that guy in the video showed

Edited April 9 by Lonesome Cowboy Burt

[regis9 4,039]

Has anyone found a good time / location to see totality?  I just tried in Mirimichi New Brunswick, which was in the path of totality, but I was unable to get a full eclipse, only partial.

[btacon 1,849]

1 hour ago, regis9 said:

Has anyone found a good time / location to see totality?  I just tried in Mirimichi New Brunswick, which was in the path of totality, but I was unable to get a full eclipse, only partial.

Try this. About 95% totality from about two min on.

-B

 

[Christopher Low 5,393]

The path of the 1991 July 11 total solar eclipse was nowhere near Russia, so the accuracy is way off. No wonder Dave is unable to see totality at New Brunswick on 2024 April 8.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,041]

On 4/9/2024 at 2:58 PM, Christopher Low said:

Where was this guy viewing the 1991 eclipse? The path of totality for that one did not cross mainland USA.

Agreed. The path of totality was much further south over Mexico. The Missouri area had less than 50% of the sun eclipsed.

@btacon, the furthest point west that could see the 8 April eclipse was NW Scotland and the west coast of Ireland and that was very close to sunset.

[regis9 4,039]

Thanks yeah I tried to view the 1991 eclipse from Costa Rica but didn’t have any luck.  I found a town that was apparently one of the best places to view totality for that one but didn’t see it.

[Farlis 2,319]

It's a minor thing, considering how rare these things are, but considering that the engine is theoretically capable of simulating a totality, with correct lighting and all, they really should fix the orbital calculations so that the eclipses actually work as they should.