Regiment Downs

Regiment Downs is forward operating base on Calliope in the Stanton system. It sits at 12.7 degrees suedlich latitude and 104.9 degrees longitude.

Day and night on Calliope

A full day on Calliope lasts 4 hours 35 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 Regiment Downs.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Calliope is Shubin Mining Facility SMCa-6. From there it is 136.7 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 136.8 km on a fixed compass heading of 124.8 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 9 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 Regiment Downs 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 Calliope

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

Sun position now

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