General Question Lunar Eclipse?

[JonnyBGoode]

I just positioned the Earth and Moon for the Lunar Eclipse that should take place on the 21st of this month, to see what the Moon would look like. It should have turned red from the shadow (or at least have a shadow cast on it?) but in Orbiter the Moon was as bright as usual. Do the planets still not cast shadows on each other?

 

[ghostrunner01]

I don't think Orbiter supports that yet. I might be wrong but I've never noticed that.

 

[Wishbone]

Cough... should I enable eclipse/transit finder in the Precession MFD? (No, it is not prediction code yet, simply tells one if one is in some deep ... shadow from a given object)

 

[hribek]

How would this be done? Martins would have to update the Moon module?

 

[zerofay32]

There was a post about this a couple of years ago. In your eclipse scenario, place a vessel (like a DG) on the moon. During the eclipse the DG will turn the different colors and go to it's shadowed state but the Moon itself won't. If I remember correctly the member that originally posted about it said that it was by accident. He was about to lift off of the Moon when his DG turned black on him :lol:

This was with 2006 but from the sounds of it, planets still can't cast shadows on each other yet.

Are you using '06 or are you using '10?

EDIT: Read the last sentence of the OP. Looks like you knew all that, sorry. If you're using '10 then it looks like planet to planet shadows aren't happening yet.

 

[JonnyBGoode]

Using 2010. Thought that would be fixed by now, is all...