Northern Lights

[DanKH]

I've never been to either planets, so I couldn't tell. But I'd love to some day.

[simondix]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AmyfuJDMlY


Why wait.

[Airspeed]

Ready for a check, Garry?
22/11/11: "One thing I've not checked is the it should be upside down in the Southern Hemisphere compared to the North"

10:15 Tonight (29/11/11 Australian time, and our 42nd wedding anniversary), the actual moon crescent looks like a "lazy C". How does it look to you folks in the Northern Hemisphere?

[Garry Russell]

The shape is the same but when we see the right you see the left

The moon for you it north to the horizon and South to the horizon for us

To you the Sun and Moon move right to left and for us left to right.

[Airspeed]

Thanks Garry,
In FSX I had to wind the clock back one hour to get the moon in its right position, due to daylight saving time. The shape and orientation is as the real one tonight.






I've communicated with rhose DC3 guys. The sextant is only one of the measures they use, and it's mainly there for the exercise. They assume that the navigator basically knows where he is. They agree that the stars are unreliable.
The author of Autostar has been very helpful, but so far I still haven't got it talking to FSX.

[Garry Russell]

If you flip that left to right is how we see the moon at the moment.

That is crescent to the bottom right

[Airspeed]

Good oh.
Now, I just fixed my document path in AutostarX, and hey presto, we have a very recognizable Orion looking down from about the right spot. Not only that, but I've turned on Planet Labels, which is handy. This is going to make night flying something to see for us VFR bods.
Hats off to Chris Wright, I say.