Miner's Lament

Miner's Lament is racetrack on Yela in the Stanton system. It sits at 0.3 degrees noerdlich latitude and 133.2 degrees longitude, 399.7 km above ground.

Day and night on Yela

A full day on Yela lasts 1 hour 49 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 Miner's Lament.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Yela is GrimHEX. From there it is 69.7 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 69.7 km on a fixed compass heading of 272.2 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 5 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 Miner's Lament 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 Yela

Ship mining on Yela turns up: Quartz, Agricium, Taranite, Silicon, Quantanium. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.

Sun position now

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