Night skies too bright?

[ryanbatc 13,189]

Is this a setting I'm wrongly using or what?

Have the night skies always been this bright?  It's almost like dusk or dawn in the dead of night.

Approaching Santa Barbara CA - looks pretty cool with the slightly glowing areas in the distance.  But the overall night sky is way too bright.  I feel like the HDR is trying to compensate or something.

breightnight by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

 

[Dillon 2,208]

Did you have a full moon on that flight?

Edited November 25, 2020 by Dillon

[DaveS 151]

I reported this as a bug last week and they said it was logged in their bug tracker. I was flying over DFW around 830pm and sunset time was like 515pm and there was still an orange glow on the horizon to the west. Hopefully it get fixed someday 

[ryanbatc 13,189]

11 minutes ago, Dillon said:

Did you have a full moon on that flight?

The moon was out for sure.... maybe 3/4 full?  Still though it looks almost like daytime from certain angles.  Even with a full moon the sky will be quite dark.  You might get some illumination of the ground below however.

[Pugilist2 882]

I also feel that the night skies are too bright. Hope it gets fixed.

[Mark1616 50]

I noticed a difference as well. Attributed it to the moon, but I agree that it is a tad to easy to do VFR at night after the latest update.

[sd_flyer 6,195]

Right now is moon over SoCal so skies are brighter

[Phantoms 800]

Speaking of night lighting, my daughter sent me some pics from a fight she was on last night. She transports organs and flies quite regularly. She's not sure of the city but believes it may be Chattanooga they were over when she snapped those.

[Kilo60 660]

23 hours ago, ryanbatcund said:

Is this a setting I'm wrongly using or what?

Have the night skies always been this bright?  It's almost like dusk or dawn in the dead of night.

Approaching Santa Barbara CA - looks pretty cool with the slightly glowing areas in the distance.  But the overall night sky is way too bright.  I feel like the HDR is trying to compensate or something.

breightnight by Ryan Butterworth, on Flickr

 

Forget the darkness... What's up with the LED strip lighting along the coast!  Yuck!!!

[Kilo60 660]

23 minutes ago, Phantoms said:

Speaking of night lighting, my daughter sent me some pics from a fight she was on last night. She transports organs and flies quite regularly. She's not sure of the city but believes it may be Chattanooga they were over when she snapped those.

What none of the city street lights are big bright white LED ORBs...!!!

 

Seriously though, I've never seen white lights like depicted in the sim now anywhere when flying and I come in and out of KFLL all the time.

 

90% of the street lights I've ever seen from the air or in photos are yellow or amber colored...

[ryanbatc 13,189]

Agree...most cities are still HP sodium (orange)

Those pics look good but the sky is too bright in my shots.

[andrecarli737 177]

Mine is too dark, wanna trade?

 

 

[ryanbatc 13,189]

3 minutes ago, andrecarli737 said:

Mine is too dark, wanna trade?

 

 

Your sky is too dark?  First I've heard.  Show me a screenshot!

[andrecarli737 177]

Just now, ryanbatcund said:

Your sky is too dark?  First I've heard.  Show me a screenshot!

No moon night in Fernando de Noronha. I had a nasty blackhole effect while doing a flight there some days ago.

 

[tpete61 262]

Ground lighting and night lighting in general have had many post in various forums.

It is certainly a very subjective topic. Personally I think most of the night lighting is pretty good. There could be some small tweaks perhaps but I think there are way to many other issues to pick apart night lighting at present.