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Astronomical Calendar

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swpierce

SOH-CM-2025
Does anybody know if the astronomical calendar is correct in CFS3? Are the sunrise time/moonrise time/moon phase, etc. accurate for the historical dates?
 
In case anyone was interested in the question I posted I looked up sunrise/sunset/moon phase data on the internet and compared them to dates and times I programmed into missions and it appeared to correlate.
 
I'm trying to put together some Intruder missions and wanted to time them with the bright moon periods. I think I got that part down but the other details are difficult.
 
Just bumping this one in case anyone knows the answer.

Flying the Dam Busters mission, the night of 16th/17th May 1943 should be a full moon (moonfull.dds), but CFS3 is showing it as the 1st quarter (moonwxgb.dds).

Is this hard-coded? I can't find any files that relate to it other than the .dds images.

Edit:

It looks like cfs3 is correct, BUT, its using only 7 textures to display the 12 moon phases. If I set the date in the mission to the 20th May, it displays the full moon. Cfs3 is using the next texture along for anything other than a full moon.

I might have a play with the textures.

moon43.png
 
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So is the full moon texture used only once per lunar cycle in CFS3? Or does it start on the full moon and show until the start of the next phase?
 
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