[quote=tater]It takes forever to disappear because it is HUGE.
The earth turns ~15 degrees per hour. The sun/moon are ~1/2 of a degree, that means they should set, limb to limb, in ~2 minutes.[quote]
There's no "should" to it, that's exactly what they do!
There is some effect from atmospheric refraction that makes this period difficult to exactly judge if you want to actually time it with a stopwatch. Basically it smears the image horizontally along the horizon. I haven't checked to see if this is reproduced in the game.
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