Well, I've chronicled solar system craziness since the game was published. One player published a nearly full moon setting beside the sun from Dutch Harbor and remarked how realistic it was. Oh, yeah, the moon was twice the diameter of the sun.
The sun and moon are almost exactly the same diameter in the sky at ALL times. If the sun and moon are only 10º apart, there is no lit portion of the moon to see. All you would see is the sun. In order for the moon to be full, it MUST be opposite the sun in the sky. Therefore the full moon rises exactly at sunset and sets within 50 minutes of sunrise. ALWAYS and FOREVER.
This stuff was common knowledge to farmers 100 years ago, but since we've moved on to more sophisticated and "superior" lifestyles, we've forgotten any astronomy that used to be common knowledge.
Silent Hunter 4 is not an astronomy simulator, it's a submarine simulator and we have to accept shortcomings in nonconsequential areas that have nothing to do with sinking targets or getting our fool selves killed.
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