Rolo's Crater

Rolo's Crater is forward operating base on Yela in the Stanton system. It sits at 43.3 degrees suedlich latitude and -123.0 degrees longitude.

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 Rolo's Crater.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Yela is Benson Mining Outpost. From there it is 210.6 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 212.4 km on a fixed compass heading of 244.6 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 14 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 Rolo's Crater 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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