At what altitude can we see the easter eggs

[ImpulseSpaceCenter]

Hi,

As I was playing doing low orbiting on the mun, I manage to see one of the easter eggs on it. And I was wondering, at what maximum orbital distance from a planete does the game render the easter eggs?

I would like to try to find them using low orbital pass and just the vanilla game (no mod). Since I don't know where they are.

[Promii]

I know I can see Mun arches from my station at 60km. They're pretty huge.

[ImpulseSpaceCenter]

humm that's cool. that mean I just need to look really hard, because I was about 9km when I saw the arch, and it was small!

[Aladran]

At 60km, they must look more like a little shinny dot on your monitor.

[Promii]

Yes, they're a flickering pixel. Probably helps that I'm playing at 2560x1600.

[superm18]

i've had trouble locating easter eggs since .20

the flickering pixel was what i allways looked for when orbiting somewhere and the spots i know are not flickering anymore! but before this i had to be below 70 km.

[Rage097]

It's probably best to orbit around 60km or less, find the shining pixel and follow it. at lower altitudes it's best you have terrain scatter off.

[daveboy2000]

I could see the space facility and the island runway from LKO, so I guess somewhere under 100 kilometers depending on your settings?

[AmpsterMan]

The mun arches, the [redacted] near the equator, and the [redacted] near the south pole I hear can be seen from orbit. The other three [redacted] can only be seen from like 5km (whatever distance ground scatter objects appear) and then you are looking for something smaller than a pixel.

[Extemporary]

I can confirm, using the telescope mod, that they are present when orbiting at 85 km. Depending on the sun angle, they may be visible naked-eye, but I'm not sure. They are rendered though. I expect the distance they stop is when the terrain detail switches, which for the past few updates has been around 170 km.

This image was taken from an orbiting craft, using the Ordan telescope mod.

EDIT: Note that this was from 0.18 or 0.19, things may have changed in 0.20

Edited May 27, 2013 by Extemporary

[Vanamonde]

It used to be that, if you knew where to look, you could see an intermittent, tell-tale sparkle from 1,000km. However, I think that may have changed in the latest terrain revision, because I haven't seen anything in .20 yet.

[Richy teh space man]

The mun arches, the [redacted] near the equator, and the [redacted] near the south pole I hear can be seen from orbit. The other three [redacted] can only be seen from like 5km (whatever distance ground scatter objects appear) and then you are looking for something smaller than a pixel.

This pretty much

Also, some of them may be below ground level or hovering in the air.

[ImpulseSpaceCenter]

The mun arches, the [redacted] near the equator, and the [redacted] near the south pole I hear can be seen from orbit. The other three [redacted] can only be seen from like 5km (whatever distance ground scatter objects appear) and then you are looking for something smaller than a pixel.

I guess I will give it a try to low orbit. Mun should be ok, If I remember well what I saw on the wiki, the highest place is 500m on mun. Minmus will be harder so. and then rover time I guess or something a bit faster that hover.

I don't know why but I like to keep it vanilla (I only use kerbal engineer during construction to know the weight), but I do hope we will have more science/exploration stuff like telescopes. May be I will have a look at the telescope mod to look around.

[miketheveeg]

am seeing them from 55k.

i cannot see the more northerly one yet. currently doing flybys below 5k looking. mapsat says it's there.. it's the one near this ridge.. i'll find it

[AmpsterMan]

I guess I will give it a try to low orbit. Mun should be ok, If I remember well what I saw on the wiki, the highest place is 500m on mun. Minmus will be harder so. and then rover time I guess or something a bit faster that hover.

I don't know why but I like to keep it vanilla (I only use kerbal engineer during construction to know the weight), but I do hope we will have more science/exploration stuff like telescopes. May be I will have a look at the telescope mod to look around.

I like to play stock as well, mainly because I don't like to worry about updating mods. I found all of the artifacts on Mun, two on Kerbin and one on Duna with nothing but general knowledge of where they were located and my own eyes. Of course it took me like 6 months .

am seeing them from 55k.

i cannot see the more northerly one yet. currently doing flybys below 5k looking. mapsat says it's there.. it's the one near this ridge.. i'll find it

I suggest you drop a rover or a hover craft of sorts. Though it might be possible to spot it is extremely unlikely. Also check your detail settings. If it is on low then the [redacted] will be underground.

[superm18]

just spotted the pyramids at just above 150 km

[superm18]

and this one with the altitude:

Wierd!! the pic just didnt wanna show in the post???!

Edited May 28, 2013 by superm18
i give up!!!!

[miketheveeg]

found the crashed UFO but it is underground

planting a flag anyways