Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Tycho]

Another panorama. This time, its a pan taken on Apollo 11 by Neil Armstrong northwest of the Lunar Module. In view is the Lunar Module, Buzz Aldrin moments before the iconic flag salute, the American flag and the Solar Wind Collector.

This one, which turned out significantly better than my Hadley pan, consists of nine individual screenshots stitched together. It covers a horizontal distance of just under 180 degrees, from east to southwest. Click here to see the pan full-size.

 

[Donamy]

Pretty cheesy (but it ain't easy).

"Easy peazy, lemon squeezy."

 

[ED_4]

I don't get the dimness of that place. The sun is right there and should be making the rest of the terrain look bright as day.

 

[Dickie]

Nope, never trust ground personel. I'd rather do it myself, thank you.:tiphat:

Heh, don't know why but that reminds me of a sign I saw in a squadron building not long ago which read:

"If flying aircraft was difficult, the engineers would do it."

I've also been sat in the back at night, when the pilot has reported that the aircraft lights aren't working, and called one of the ground crew in to take a look. The ground crew climbed in and plugged into the intercom, then the pilot explained that none of the lights were working at all and told him in no uncertain terms that we weren't launching unless they got fixed, and how it was really bad that the engineers had missed something this major to which the ground crew replied "Well Sir, it helps if you switch them to 'on'." cue the lights all coming on and deathly silence from the pilot.
:facepalm:

 

[Tycho]

I don't get the dimness of that place. The sun is right there and should be making the rest of the terrain look bright as day.

Well, I think part of it is that it's rather tough to simulate terrain albedo/brightness in a program like Orbiter. That'd be neat though.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

..."Well Sir, it helps if you switch them to 'on'." ...
:facepalm:

Had that happen so many times with the radios that it practically became a running gag.

 

[ED_4]

I found the strangest plane to ever take to orbit. It's strange as technically it would have been impossible to reach up if this was for real. With the exception that it's rocket propelled. The author is htksos and the aircraft/spacecraft can be found at the Hangar under ST-75 as its name. It's the Stearman strapped on with a rocket motor at the tail.

I think of all the space planes I've taken to orbit thus far, this one is the easiest to get into orbit. I even have lots of fuel left to spare. And I managed to get it to a perfect circular orbit of 0.0000 eccentricity. As can be seen on the shot immediately below.

Here's another interesting space plane. Though not quite as easy to take into orbit as it took lots of going down and up in the atmosphere to even get the proper velocity to get it to orbit. But I made it. It's the Delta Glider EX.

The Delta Glider EX is nice in that it's got what looks to be a somewhat roomy cargo bay. Although with the way it performed getting up without even any load except for the pilots. I'd sure hate to try to take it up without any assistance of any rocket boosters.

I also did all the orbit entry manual on both craft without any autopilot assistance. Which makes the ST-75, in my opinion, the easiest of any of the aircraft/spaceplane addons out there to take into orbit.

 

[Aeadar]

Rugged Venus:

 

[ED_4]

Rugged Venus:

Where did you find terrain mesh for Venus? I've seen textures on the Hangar, but not a terrain mesh.

 

[Aeadar]

Just Orulex.

 

[Donamy]

A little sight seeing before setting up base.

 

[Geo]

My little contribution.

 

[Izack]

Unidentified object imaged from the bridge of AR-01, 1000km above Callisto:

Object is in a near-polar orbit intersecting AR-01's standard ecliptic orbit. Next encounter will be in brighter sunlight. Astro department has detected neutrino and infra-red radiation conducive to an operating fusion reactor within the object. Crew are currently digging the telescopes out of storage for better images on the next pass.

Second image taken through small telescope while it crossed the constellation Camelopardalis:

 

[mojoey]

Unidentified object imaged from the bridge of AR-01, 1000km above Callisto:

Object is in a near-polar orbit intersecting AR-01's standard ecliptic orbit. Next encounter will be in brighter sunlight. Astro department has detected neutrino and infra-red radiation conducive to an operating fusion reactor within the object. Crew are currently digging the telescopes out of storage for better images on the next pass.

ehh...might be a Trojan horse...might be filled with antimatter

 

[TMac3000]

It's Probe!

 

[mojoey]

or it could be

 

[Mattyv]

nah...

 

[Geo]

ESA's DGIV on its way to the Moon.

(that was the first time I achieved it, with IMFD).

 

[IronRain]

(that was the first time I achieved it, with IMFD).

Congrats

 

[Geo]

Congrats

Thanks a lot! I'm still landed at Brighton Beach, studying return steps :thumbup:

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Another screenshot of Deltaglider IV on its (very good) Europe Launcher:

We can see French Guyana too.