LE "Fixing" The Celestial Sphere: Astronomy Tweaks

[CherokeeCory]

First off, I'd like to state that yes, I KNOW that Skyrim takes place on a fictional planet with no connection to Earth. I get that. That being said, I would like the night sky to be more familiar to me.

1. The moons have a retrograde orbit, meaning they rise in the west and set in the east. I'd like the opposite to be true.

2. The geographic pole seems to be somewhere in the northwest, regardless of any maps of Nirn I find (which are fairly inconsistent). We need to set that directly north. The way the sky rotates now, it looks like Skyrim is very close to the pole, but again, the maps are very inconsistent and I imagine it's around the same latitude as Scandinavia: around 60-70 degrees.

3. The Sun's path goes directly overhead. Unless Nirn orbits at 60-70 degrees (which would be hell for anything living there), that isn't happening. Its path also needs to change with the seasons.

4. The moon is much too large. If you look up, you'll see that the moon appears to be around the same size as a hole in a sheet of notebook paper. In skyrim, it's more of a dinner plate.

5. Wrong stars/constellations! We nust need to re-create the positions of thousands of known stars for the skybox. Simple.

What we already have: Texture replacers! I've already found mods that remove the second moon and retexture the remaining one and that add the milky way to the night sky.

So, yeah. Just putting the idea out there.