Frigid Knot

Frigid Knot is settlement on Bloom in the Pyro system. It sits at 55.9 degrees suedlich latitude and 5.9 degrees longitude.

Day and night on Bloom

A full day on Bloom lasts 5 hours 2 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 Frigid Knot.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Bloom is Shepherd's Rest. From there it is 436.2 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 454.9 km on a fixed compass heading of 244.9 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 30 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 Frigid Knot 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. There is no measured marker radius on file for Bloom — these values are estimates.

Mining on Bloom

Ship mining on Bloom turns up: Quartz, Borase, Riccite, Stileron. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.

Sun position now

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