beyond 4.13

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by dimlee

About the summer:

You're right on both points.

I knew about pitch dark equatorial nights, but I didn't bother to mention it.

Another issue that IL2 might not model correctly is sunrise and sunset length. Both are longer the closer you get to the poles. Near the equator, however, sunset and sunrise occur fairly quickly.

While it's probably beyond IL2's limitations, it would be fun if the position of the sun, moon, planets, and stars actually match your latitude, longitude, date and time.

Hypothetically, that would allow you to do accurate celestial navigation. More practically, it means that, once you've got the sun's position worked out, you can figure out how much light there should be from the moon, and from light scatter over the horizon.

At the very least, the night sky maps should have the actual constellations, with Ursa Major/Polaris in the correct location if you're in the northern hemisphere, and the Southern Cross and the "Coal Scuttle" nebula if you're in the Southern Hemisphere.

The stars don't need to move, they just need to be bright enough in pitch darkness that you might be able to see the silhouettes of aircraft above you, and that you can do basic direction finding by the starts.