Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Spotted this in the MilViz F100 promotional video at their site. WTF? Where does one find Auroras in FS? Is this a feature of P3D perhaps? Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 There's a lengthy thread at the Historic Jetliners Group forums, with links to other places. I only skimmed, didn't read in detail but I think I saw references to payware and to something available free on Flightsim.com, as well as references to occurrences in native FS9 and FSX. John http://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/7327/spot-northern-lights-aurora-borealis EDIT: There's also a page on them at Simtours... http://www.simtours.net/aurora.php JDA EDIT EDIT: There's a discussion at FSDevelopers.com that seems to indicate that they are not available in FSX but were in FS9. One of the corresponents is trying to replicate them in FSX with limited success. http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/threads/northern-lights.11782/ Several threads at AVSLIME on the topic typically have no useful information - just people obsessing over how beautiful they are in real life. JDA 1 Link to post Share on other sites
adrians69 159 Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 I think it's there by default as one of the 'Easter eggs' that are present within FSX. You just have to be in the right place at the right time to see it. Link to post Share on other sites
SEATAC 400 Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Here ya go! http://www.simtours.net/aurora.php EDIT: Whoops! Just noticed that John posted that link. Simtours is chock full of information on lesser known details of FSX Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 If you have P3Dv3 then there is the freeware Orbx ENJA Jan Mayensfield with enhanced AB textures and looks pretty amazing. More from the develpper here http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/107834-enja-northern-lights-in-p3d-v3/#comment-970520 Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted February 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Cool stuff, thanks for all the replies folks! Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 i beleive you can turn that on in stars.db Link to post Share on other sites
rosariomanzo 545 Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 Aurora borealis is there since good old fs9. Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 i beleive you can turn that on in stars.db Can you elaborate Chris, please? Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 Gladly Joe in Sim root you will find stars.dat file,you can opened edit it with text editor directly, this file contains all the constellations and stars system catalog for Sim;it was created long time ago and basically partial data was used; i have recently compiled a complete stars.dat db from latest available data (sized 180mb),i was looking to add this as another night layer for even more enhanced night environment experience,you can add any constellation you wish to the catalog as well configure effect and brightness applied, to see Aurora Borealis set ->; colorize Polaris (north star): =no; 1=yesColorizePolaris=1 also advised to set -> ; display constellations: =no; 1=yesConstellations=1; colorize the first star of each zodiacal constellation: =no; 1=yesColorizeZodiac=1this is how the file looks like (partial listings) ; Star catalog for Microsoft Flight Simulator ; Data source: ; The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Preliminary Version) ; Hoffleit D., Warren Jr W.H. ; <Astronomical Data Center, NSSDC/ADC (1991)> ; http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/catalogs/bsc5.html ; ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/V/50/ [Star Settings] ; intensity of stars without explicit color in Star Locations table Intensity=230 ; number of stars in [Star Locations] table NumStars=9096 ; display constellations: 0=no; 1=yes Constellations=0 ; colorize Polaris (north star): 0=no; 1=yes ColorizePolaris=0 ; colorize the first star of each zodiacal constellation: 0=no; 1=yes ColorizeZodiac=0 ; constellation lines formed by joining stars referenced by FK5 number [Constellations] ;Big dipper Constellation.0 = 5191,5054,4905,4660,4554,4295,4301,4660 ; Orion's Belt Constellation.1 = 1852,1903,1948 [Star Locations] ;Star.1234 = HR,raH,raM, raS, decD,deM,deS, mag, specType, color, name Star.0 = 1, 00, 05, 09.9, +45, 13, 45, 6.70, A1Vn, 0x00E8F8E8, Star.1 = 2, 00, 05, 03.8, -00, 30, 11, 6.29, gG9, 0x15E6E6E6, Star.2 = 3, 00, 05, 20.1, -05, 42, 27, 4.61, K0IIIbCN-0.5, 0x8EFBF5CF, 33 Psc Star.3 = 4, 00, 05, 42.0, +13, 23, 46, 5.51, G5III, 0x57F9F9D3, 86 Peg Star.4 = 5, 00, 06, 16.0, +58, 26, 12, 5.96, G5V, 0x34F9F9D3, Star.5 = 6, 00, 06, 19.0, -49, 04, 30, 5.70, G1IV, 0x49F9F9D3, Star.6 = 7, 00, 06, 26.5, +64, 11, 46, 5.59, B9III, 0x51E8EAF8, 10 Cas Star.7 = 8, 00, 06, 36.8, +29, 01, 17, 6.13, K0V, 0x24FBF5CF, Star.8 = 9, 00, 06, 50.1, -23, 06, 27, 6.18, A7V, 0x20E8F8E8, Star.9 = 10, 00, 07, 18.2, -17, 23, 11, 6.19, A6Vn, 0x1FE8F8E8, Star.10 = 11, 00, 07, 44.1, -02, 32, 56, 6.43, B8IIIpSi, 0x07E8EAF8, Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 Thanks Chris, I've never really thought about it, I bet your night skies are impressive! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 Pleasure Joe my nights with the latest stars db are indeed fantastic and very different than stock star map,anyone interested latest catalog is here http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/catalogs/ or here ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/V/145/(source data links are in start.dat body; though the links point to a very old catalog) Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 Wow, lots of numbers in those charts, I wouldn't know where to start! Which catalog did you use? EDIT: Apologies Chris, just realised what you said earlier about NE, scrap that question 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted February 16, 2016 Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 i use Yale Bright Star Catalogthe ftp link there is outdated (v50);this is the latest data compilation (v145) ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/cats/V/145/ Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 21, 2016 Report Share Posted February 21, 2016 It was also present in FS2004, certainly spectacular when you find it. Link to post Share on other sites
Captain Coffee 2,030 Posted February 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Neat shot Alan...looks like you are approaching Jupiter . 1 Link to post Share on other sites
SEATAC 400 Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Looks like one of the ships friends m 'Space 1999' 1 Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted February 22, 2016 Report Share Posted February 22, 2016 Looks like one of the ships friends m 'Space 1999' It is indeed. Eagle 6. Link to post Share on other sites
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