Coven

Coven is forward operating base on Arial in the Stanton system. It sits at 23.9 degrees suedlich latitude and 64.7 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 Coven.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Arial is Comm Array ST1-13. From there it is 255.6 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 255.7 km on a fixed compass heading of 231.3 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 17 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 Coven 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.

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.

Sun position now

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