[TEC] Question about Smaller Moon & Sun Mod

[mercury_marauder]

Does anyone know if this mod effects the solar and luner eclipse's that happen in the game while on patrol?

Here is a shot of the partial Solar one on March 16th of 1942. And they seem to happen exactly when they are listed to happen in real life history between 1942 to 1945. You wanted realism well here it is.

http://static.filefront.com/images/personal/m/mercurymarauder/100844/ainpghkssj.thumb250.jpg (http://gallery.filefront.com/mercurymarauder//663629/)

Here are the real time dates and events:

Lunar Eclipse 3 Mar 1942
Solar Eclipse 16 Mar 1942
Solar Eclipse 12 Aug 1942
Lunar Eclipse 26 Aug 1942
Solar Eclipse 10 Sep 1942
Solar Eclipse 4 Feb 1943
Lunar Eclipse 20 Feb 1943
Solar Eclipse 1 Aug 1943
Lunar Eclipse 15 Aug 1943
Solar Eclipse 25 Jan 1944
Lunar Eclipse 9 Feb 1944
Lunar Eclipse 6 Jul 1944
Solar Eclipse 20 Jul 1944
Lunar Eclipse 4 Aug 1944
Lunar Eclipse 29 Dec 1944
Solar Eclipse 14 Jan 1945
Lunar Eclipse 25 Jun 1945
Solar Eclipse 9 Jul 1945
Lunar Eclipse 19 Dec 1945

[mercury_marauder]

But never thought about posting it until now but thought you people playing should slow down and see all that is in the game you might have missed from time to time.

I can't wait for August in the game so I can get a shot of the lunar eclipse that have seen other times but never thought about.

[panthercules]

This would be amazing if they actually modeled this - I'd love to go check some of these out, but I'm having trouble deciphering your data notations - can you explain what the various entries mean? - e.g., Solar Eclipse 12 Aug 1942 02:40 25°Cn43' - I'm especially having trouble figuring out how you see a solar eclipse at 2:40 in the morning, unless maybe you're at the pole or something, but I also can't figure out the "Cn" vs "Aq" vs "Le" etc. in these entries (it's been a lot of years since I studied basic astronomy at college, so I'm a little rusty on the notation terminology :D )

[mercury_marauder]

I think the other numbers I had posted where corordenants to where to point a telescope or look so I eliminated them and the times where for the time zones best to see them but I swear to you that partial eclipse happend on March 16th of 1942 in my game just like NASA listed in the file I got my info from.

Here is one link for info:

http://www.jyotish.net/eclipse%20page.htm



Here is some further info on the type of eclipse you might see in the game and when they should happen.

Solar Eclipses: Lunar Eclipses:T - Total t - Total (Umbral)A - Annular p - Partial (Umbral)H - Hybrid (Annular/Total) n - PenumbralP - Partial

1942

Mar 3 00:22 t
Mar 16 23:52 P
Aug 12 02:26 P
Aug 26 03:44 t
Sep 10 15:50 P

1943

Feb 4 23:30 T
Feb 20 05:46 p
Aug 1 04:06 A
Aug 15 19:34 p

1944

Jan 25 15:24 T
Feb 9 05:29 n
Jul 6 04:28 n
Jul 20 05:44 A
Aug 4 12:41 n
Dec 29 14:38 n

1945

Jan 14 05:06 A
Jun 25 15:09 p
Jul 9 13:36 T
Dec 19 02:17 t

[Sailor Steve]

I only have one possible problem: eclipses cannot be seen everywhere on Earth, and ones that are total in one place are partial in another. Are they also sorted by lattitude, or do they look the same everywhere?

[mercury_marauder]

about times using greenwich standard time and there are possitions as well. But I have seen this before in the game both the lunar and solar with all the times I had to restart campaigns before the patches fixed that just never dawned on me to say anything about it at the time.