Echo Island

Echo Island is outpost on Hurston in the Stanton system. It sits at 60.7 degrees suedlich latitude and -145.8 degrees longitude.

Day and night on Hurston

A full day on Hurston lasts 2 hours 29 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 Echo Island.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Hurston is HDMS-Oparei. From there it is 257.1 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 258.8 km on a fixed compass heading of 108.9 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 Echo Island 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 Hurston

Ship mining on Hurston turns up: Aluminium, Tin, Ouratite, Quantanium. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.

Sun position now

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