The Fault in Our Stars (Not so Faulty!)

[Grinde81]

@Crunchmeister71

Long time astrophotographer here.

Awesome, nice to find a fellow cloud-curser here!
(I got a rig in a remote obsy in southern Europe for AP)

@Crunchmeister71

Agreed. It doesn’t really look great under closer scrutiny, unfortunately. But at least everything is where it should be and accurate, so I’ll take it. This is a flight sim, not Stellarium. lol

Yeah, I just think it looks weird seeing the milky way from downtown Los Angeles, as current texture is low dynamic range and doesn’t scale brightness at all. (Bright stars visible while faint stars aren’t)

Just saying, X Plane 11 does this the “correct way” with a textfile containing a list of stars consisting of RA / Dec / Mag, and the sim does the rest, scaling star visibility via magnitude depending on background sky brightness & so on.

Night sky too extreme in VR

There is already a topic about “Stars too close” which is related somehow. In effect, the stars seem to be just a projected texture. This explains their look and feel, and probably the “too close” factor if the dome they are projected onto is just too small. This also explains why star magnitude is not rendering correctly, because it is just a pre-painted texture with static stars. At the same time, your topic is different because it is not about “too close” but about “magnitude”, and for this, …

But I agree, we shouldn’t be peeking at the sky at night while flying in a sim, but I still think it could be done more realistic for the “golden hours” and under light pollution.