Constellations

[themonk]

The other day I got caught in a situation with a rover where I couldn't see a Target marker on the maneuvering ball, because it was pointed vertically. (didn't have anything mounted on the front of the rover to do a control-by from, to give me a horizontal view).  So I picked a couple of stars to guide me in the right direction.

This got me to thinking...  Are the stars fixed in the sky?  If I look in the same direction will I always the the same stars and constellation?  

And, has anyone gone to the trouble to actually map constellations and give them names? 

 

Boy, I ask a lot of questions...  But I'm a curious guy!

[kerbiloid]

They call this skybox. A fixed texture with stars and galaxies placed on the sky.

A skybox can be set with Texture Replacer. (Search for "skybox" in the OP of the thread)

 

 

Edited March 9, 2017 by kerbiloid

[The Aziz]

There should be a small arrow on navball that indicates where your target marker is. If you didn't rotate the command module, (here goes my theory, I can't test it right now) then when the arrow is pointing upwards, you're going in correct direction.

[themonk]

3 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

They call this skybox. A fixed texture with stars and galaxies placed on the sky.

A skybox can be set with Texture Replacer. (Search for "skybox" in the OP of the thread)

Ah....  So the sky IS just a texture...   That would mean that there ARE Constellations that never change!  Now all i have to do is find the Kerbal equivalent of the Big Dipper....

[LordFerret]

6 hours ago, themonk said:

So I picked a couple of stars to guide me in the right direction.

I have done this many times while rovering on the Mun.

[Hotel26]

On 3/9/2017 at 8:41 PM, themonk said:

Now all i have to do is find the Kerbal equivalent of the Big Dipper....

In here(?):

 

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