ASD Onyx S1A4
ASD Onyx S1A4 is underground bunker on Arial in the Stanton system. It sits at 17.6 degrees noerdlich latitude and -138.0 degrees longitude.
Day and night on Arial
A full day on Arial lasts 5 hours 31 minutes, and roughly half of that is daylight. In Stanton and Pyro every body lies in one plane with no axial tilt — so there are no seasons, and the daylight phase is the same length everywhere. The directory below works out in real time when the sun is up at ASD Onyx S1A4.
Approach
The nearest quantum point on Arial is HDMS-Bezdek. From there it is 319.7 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 323.5 km on a fixed compass heading of 237.1 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 22 minutes of flight time. The great circle is shorter but needs constant correction; on the rhumb line you hold one heading.
Orbital markers
Distances from ASD Onyx S1A4 to the six orbital markers. It works the other way round too: read those numbers off your HUD and you can work out exactly where you are.
| OM-1 | 515.91 km |
| OM-2 | 689.42 km |
| OM-3 | 769.29 km |
| OM-4 | 386.86 km |
| OM-5 | 784.81 km |
| OM-6 | 354.32 km |
Mining on Arial
Ship mining on Arial turns up: Aluminium, Tin, Hephaestanite, Corundum, Ouratite, Quantanium. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.