Smokestack

Smokestack is forward operating base on Arial in the Stanton system. It sits at 1.8 degrees suedlich latitude and -154.7 degrees longitude.

Day and night on Arial

A full day on Arial lasts 5 hours 31 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 Smokestack.

Approach

The nearest quantum point on Arial is HDMS-Bezdek. From there it is 472.5 km on the shortest route (great circle) or 478.5 km on a fixed compass heading of 232.4 degrees. At 250 m/s and 2 km altitude that works out to roughly 32 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 Smokestack 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 Arial

Ship mining on Arial turns up: Aluminium, Tin, Hephaestanite, Corundum, Ouratite, Quantanium. The deposits were gathered by players; CIG adjusts the rates with every patch.

Sun position now

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