Universe Sandbox
Universe Sandbox => Universe Sandbox ² | Discussion => Topic started by: Plutonium on July 22, 2015, 12:22:47 AM
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Would be pretty useful to have that dynamically calculated.
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like a more detailed clock about the planets rotation period...why haven't any of us thought of this before?! nice idea.
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not worth it
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gabriel.dac
Have you ever seen polar days?? It is an amazing fenomena, how can that be not worth it??
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If this was done I'd imagine it would be simplified to not take into account light refraction, thick atmospheres can bend alot of light over the horizon. I have no idea how that would be calculated, but I think it's based on the planetary tilt. A tidally locked planet would probably just have N/A as the duration because it would be a polar night forever at the antistellar pole.
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I think this will be fairly easy to implement. All the required inputs are there.
Currently there is a lack of more detailed planetary data output, like how hot the Sun facing side of a tidally locked planet would be, or at what latitudes we can expect to see polar days if the Earth had 36° tilt instead of 23.........
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I think this is a nice idea.