Shepherd's Rest

Shepherd's Rest is settlement on Bloom in the Pyro system. It sits at 29.2 degrees suedlich latitude and 85.3 degrees longitude. You can quantum straight to it.

Day and night on Bloom

A full day on Bloom lasts 5 hours 2 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 Shepherd's Rest.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Bloom is Shadowfall. From there it is 194.9 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 195.0 km on a fixed compass heading of 217.8 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 13 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 Shepherd's Rest 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 Bloom — these values are estimates.

Mining on Bloom

Ship mining on Bloom turns up: Quartz, Borase, Riccite, Stileron. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.

Sun position now

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