Can you see duna from kerbin?

[montyben101]

Simple as that. If you look in the right place can you see it?

[vetrox]

Dont quote me but i think you can only bodies in your current SOI, at least thats what I assumed.

[montyben101]

Not true as you can see planets when you leave their SOI

[KD3]

You can see it. But not really without mods. The telescope mod which lets you zoom in loads allows you to see it. But not with just a Kerbal. They are rendered in though.

[brians200]

If you use one of the telescope mods, you can zoom all the way in and see every planetary body.

[UbioZur]

Planet are rendered all the time, so if you have good enough eyes, yes you can see Duna and all other celestial bodies from anywhere at anytime (providing you look at the good direction).

Telescope mods or camera with big zoom will help you a lot to see them.

[montyben101]

Cool, but at closest pass (when duna is closest to kerbin if that phrase doesn't exist) and in the kerbal window zoom thing can you see a tiny speck one pixel wide?

[gompasta]

While in stock, there is almost no chance to see it. Minmus itself is only around 2-3 pixels, so duna would only have a very small chance of seeing a single pixel, if the game decides to render it.

[RogueMason]

I myself have never seen Duna from Kerbin, but there is a stock technique you can try: Get the MK1 Cockpit or (preferably) the Cupola, set Duna as your target, and point straight at Duna using the nav-ball. Following this, go into IVA and zoom in the camera, looking straight ahead (you can zoom even more by clicking in the middle mouse button).

Like I said, I haven't tried to find Duna, but I have spotted Jool from Kerbin orbit using this method. It was a very intermittent pixel, but it was there. Hopefully, if you decide to try, you'll have some luck

[zombiphylax]

I would like to see a feature added in the future that makes planets reflect sunlight to give the planets an appearance of a large star like in real life.

[Akinesis]

You can see it using the VDS Hull Cam and such mods. I've done this from LKO. You can zoom right in and see the planets clearly. I'll post up a screen shot when I get to my computer later.

[Nao]

In stock game you can see most of the planets, Ive seen Eve and Jool from Kerbin ground, so Duna should be visible too. It's not visible at all times thou so you should to be as close as possible to it. (A little counter intuitive for an astronomer as in KSP we don't need the sunlight to reflect off the planet we are observing.)

edit: yes, Duna is visible, it requires maximum zoom thou (max mousewheel zoom+middle mosue button) double clicking on window in IVA helps also a little. The only nice planet to observe is Eve thou as it's more than 2-3 pixels wide

Edited November 6, 2013 by Nao

[AllenM3]

You can see every planet if you know where to look. They are extremely tiny...

The other day I was going to Duna and looked out the window at a few million km in altitude and saw Duna and Ike. I went to cockpit view and zoomed all the way in to take a peek and saw a twinkling little spec between the two. And that little spec of a pixel is actually Kerbin. Amazing how they lined up like that lol. Verified in map view that kerbin was what I was seeing.

Click to get full res and zoom in, you can see the pixel has a bluish tint to it.