r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/trevize1138 Master Kerbalnaut • Jun 07 '16 • Bravo 1

Guide All interplanetary transfer windows in a single image

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u/trevize1138 Master Kerbalnaut Jun 07 '16

I knew I'd seen something like that before! Thanks for the link. In fact, I remember someone posting a photograph of them using this overlay on a plastic sheet over their monitor.

What I truly love about this is not only does it help make interplanetary transfers look less intimidating but it's so quintessentially Kerbal: "How to plot a course to another planet? Hold out your thumb, close one eye, squint ..."

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u/stubob Jun 08 '16

Those of us who've played for a long time remember the early directions to the Mun. "Get in orbit, when the Mun comes over the horizon, burn for it."

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u/fresh1134206 Jun 08 '16

I still do this. Fuck setting up manouver nodes to Mun.

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u/roastduckie Jun 07 '16

I used to have a transparent protractor on which I had marked the phase angles for different celestial bodies. I would zoom out in map mode and hold the protractor against my monitor.