Re: [TML] sensors and ops (was berthing) Tim 25 Jun 2015 07:00 UTC
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 05:38:05AM +0000, William Ewing (via tml list) wrote: > More likely approximate. Radar and other tech is only going to get > so good. There's no need for radar. Coming out of jump space (in multiple rulesets) produces a bright EM "flash" across a broad range of wavelengths. If a sensor system can't get a bearing on that to within at most a square arcsecond, it's not worth the cardboard it was made from. Given at least one ruleset, the jump flash is visible *without instruments* at a million kilometres, which is roughly 100D range for terrestrial planets - Tim