Here are two shots of the moon behind Himeji Castle. To my mind, the moon appears to be too small. What do folks think? [Moon at Himeji Castle, Japan POI 1] [Moon at Himeji Castle, Japan POI 2]

For my feeling it is too small indeed. I think FS2020 is too big so something in the middle would be realistic?

Moon is far too small, I already wanted to report this in the feedback section, also the diffuse light is far too bright, was just as wrong in MSFS2020 ! I don’t know who always tests these things or others, but often they are not outside the “box”

I agree with it looking too small. However, I did some investigating and it does appear to be technically correct. [image] FoV in the lower left corner is vertical field of view in radians. 1.05 rad is 60 degrees. The angular size of the moon as viewed from Earth is 0.5 degrees, so the moon shou…

Ok, all good then :grinning_face:

With that, as long as it’s accurate to the scale of the sim, please don’t change it just to account for perception and illusion.

In astronomy it is well known that people over estimate the size of the moon It subtends an angle of less than 1 degree, yet paintings of the moon have been larger than life for centuries. Try Stellarium, a popular feee astronomy app, to get an accurate sky image. I would expect the FS24 moon ris…

[image] Visible planets and night sky guide for June

We definitely need a moon size slider in General Settings! :grin:

Is it me, or has the moon suddenly got much smaller? Not sure if this is since patch #3, or has been like this since FS2024 release. It was definitely much more pronounced in FS2000.

Is the moon too small in MSFS 2024?

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Vibstronium December 15, 2024, 8:31pm 17

ahem back during 2020 land folks were complaining about the moon being too large

I’m pleased it was fixed in 2024, though I’m not surprised people are suddenly surprised it’s smaller.