My God.. it is full of stars!

[CupOHemlock]

While trying to beat my high altitude best of 37502 feet, I noticed something even more interesting than the sudden puff of contrails. I had the plane nicely trimmed for about a 1k/minute climb and was intently watching the gauges as we all know we must to avoid sudden engine failure.

 

I think I was at about 28 thousand, and everything look SO good that I decided to look around a bit and enjoy the view. There I noticed, in the deepening azure blue of higher altitude, that I could see... stars. Not just one either, but entire constellations.

 

Now, I am not a real pilot, despite wanting to be one since I was six. Is this common? Programming error? Hallucination? I swear the O2 was on.

[Brisse]

Yes, this is realistic. Watch some youtube videos from MiG-25 or MiG-31 high altitude flight, and you will understand.

 

I take it that you do not own Flaming Cliffs, becouse then you would see stars a lot more often.

[PreAmp]

From real life experience I have been up to 43000ft during day light, but never saw any stars.

I assume you'd have to be a lot higher than that to get to see any stars during daylight.

[PFunk1606688187]

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Well apparently space does start at 50 000 feet, or thats what they used to say, and yet even at 70 000 in that video its hard to tell if they can see stars despite how dark the sky is.

[Mustang]

The mod I uploaded here helps with the stars visibility somewhat, try and see

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1766357&postcount=2

[strikeeagle]

Space does not start at 50k. There are many business jets that fly at that altitude. Google Karman Line and then do the math.

[Nealius]

I guess AWACS was picking those guys up last night when they told me there was a group at 50,000.

[diveplane]

While trying to beat my high altitude best of 37502 feet, I noticed something even more interesting than the sudden puff of contrails. I had the plane nicely trimmed for about a 1k/minute climb and was intently watching the gauges as we all know we must to avoid sudden engine failure.

 

I think I was at about 28 thousand, and everything look SO good that I decided to look around a bit and enjoy the view. There I noticed, in the deepening azure blue of higher altitude, that I could see... stars. Not just one either, but entire constellations.

 

Now, I am not a real pilot, despite wanting to be one since I was six. Is this common? Programming error? Hallucination? I swear the O2 was on.

 

see your a space odyssey fan..lol

[Mustang]

Hey guys, I have a modified sky.fx here if you'd like to try it, simply extract the sky.fx into Bazar\shaders\sky folder (remember to backup original) - this version of the file has tweaked values so the sky appears to have a mugh higher ceiling, you'll only start to see the stars as you reach 70000-80000+

[Brisse]

Hey guys, I have a modified sky.fx here if you'd like to try it, simply extract the sky.fx into Bazar\shaders\sky folder (remember to backup original) - this version of the file has tweaked values so the sky appears to have a mugh higher ceiling, you'll only start to see the stars as you reach 70000-80000+

 

So now we truly need DCS: MiG25 to see the stars ! :thumbup:

[BSS_Vidar]

As a retired Naval Aviator and current Airline pilot, I can say with absolute certainty... starts are not visible at FL370. Above 80,000ft the sky gets dark enough to see a few of the higher magnitude stars. Most are still washed out by the sun in the thin atmosphere.

 

IL2 had stars showing at 15,000ft, which always made my laugh a little.

 

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