Jackson's Swap

Jackson's Swap is settlement on Monox in the Pyro system. It sits at 30.9 degrees suedlich latitude and -32.7 degrees longitude, 1.0 km above ground. You can quantum straight to it.

Day and night on Monox

A full day on Monox lasts 3 hours 7 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 Jackson's Swap.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Monox is Sunset Mesa. From there it is 19.6 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 19.6 km on a fixed compass heading of 99.5 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 1 minute of flight time. The great circle is shorter but needs constant correction; on the rhumb line you hold one heading.

Orbital markers

Distances from Jackson's Swap 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 Monox — these values are estimates.

Mining on Monox

Ship mining on Monox turns up: Hephaestanite, Iron, Tin, Stileron. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.

Sun position now

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