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Title: [Suggestion] Polar day/night duration calculation
Post by: Plutonium on July 22, 2015, 12:22:47 AM

Would be pretty useful to have that dynamically calculated.

Title: Re: [Suggestion] Polar day/night duration calculation
Post by: Cryo on July 24, 2015, 07:41:26 AM

like a more detailed clock about the planets rotation period...why haven't any of us thought of this before?! nice idea.

Title: Re: [Suggestion] Polar day/night duration calculation
Post by: gabriel.dac on July 24, 2015, 12:21:34 PM

not worth it

Title: Re: [Suggestion] Polar day/night duration calculation
Post by: Plutonium on July 24, 2015, 12:32:05 PM

gabriel.dac
Have you ever seen polar days?? It is an amazing fenomena, how can that be not worth it??

Title: Re: [Suggestion] Polar day/night duration calculation
Post by: Chaou on July 26, 2015, 06:16:16 AM

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.

Title: Re: [Suggestion] Polar day/night duration calculation
Post by: Plutonium on July 26, 2015, 07:19:36 AM

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.........

Title: Re: [Suggestion] Polar day/night duration calculation
Post by: DiamondMiner10 on July 26, 2015, 12:41:10 PM

I think this is a nice idea.