HDES-Calthrope (NA)

HDES-Calthrope (NA) is cave on Hurston in the Stanton system. It sits at 33.8 degrees noerdlich latitude and -104.2 degrees longitude, 1.5 km above ground. You can quantum straight to it.

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 HDES-Calthrope (NA).

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Hurston is HDSF-Adlai. From there it is 39.2 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 39.2 km on a fixed compass heading of 52.6 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 3 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 HDES-Calthrope (NA) 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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