Shanks

Shanks is forward operating base on Euterpe in the Stanton system. It sits at 4.9 degrees noerdlich latitude and -1.2 degrees longitude.

Day and night on Euterpe

A full day on Euterpe lasts 4 hours 17 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 Shanks.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Euterpe is Comm Array ST4-64. From there it is 55.7 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 55.7 km on a fixed compass heading of 274.7 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 4 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 Shanks 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 Euterpe

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

Sun position now

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