April 8, 20242 yr 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. Pico Neo3 Link VR - Windows 11 64bit, Gigabyte Z590 Aorus Elite Mobo, i7-10700KF CPU, Gigabyte RX 9070 XT OC 16gb (AMD GPU), 32gig Corsair 3600mhz RAM, SSD x2 + M.2 SSD 1tb x1 Saitek X45 HOTAS - Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals - Logitech Flight Yoke - Homemade 3 Button & 8-directional Joystick Box, SNES Controller (used as a Button Box - Additional USB Numpad (used as a Button Box)
April 9, 20242 yr 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, 20242 yr by jcomm Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 9, 20242 yr Wow…kudos to the team at Asobo for doing this! Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
April 9, 20242 yr 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??
April 9, 20242 yr 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 (?) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
April 9, 20242 yr 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. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
April 9, 20242 yr 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, 20242 yr by Tuskin38
April 9, 20242 yr Where was this guy viewing the 1991 eclipse? The path of totality for that one did not cross mainland USA. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
April 9, 20242 yr 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, 20242 yr by Lonesome Cowboy Burt
April 12, 20242 yr 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. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
April 12, 20242 yr Author 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
April 13, 20242 yr 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. Christopher Low AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU / 64GB DDR5-6000 RAM / 12GB Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU / Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite Wifi 7 / 1+2TB Samsung Evo Plus M2 Nvme UK2000 Beta Tester
April 13, 20242 yr Moderator 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. Ray (Cheshire, England). System: P3D v5.3HF2, Intel i9-13900K, MSI 4090 GAMING X TRIO 24G, Crucial T700 4Tb M.2 SSD, Asus ROG Maximus Z790 Hero, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000Mhz RAM, Win 11 Pro 64-bit, BenQ PD3200U 32” UHD monitor, Fulcrum One yoke, Fulcrum Throttle Quadrant. Cheadle Hulme Weather website.
April 13, 20242 yr 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. Dave Current System (Running at 4k): ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F, Ryzen 7800X3D, RTX 5090, 55" Samsung Q80T, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, EVGA CLC 280mm AIO Cooler, Brunner CLS-E NG Yoke, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS & Stick, Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant & Add-on, VirtualFly Ruddo+, TQ6+ and Yoko+, GoFlight MCP-PRO and EFIS, Skalarki FCU and MCDU
April 13, 20242 yr 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.
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