Find Bearing
This tool will calulate the bearing to a specified planetary coordinate given the starting point and destination point as Elite Dangerous bearings. Enter the destination coordinate first and then enter the coordinate of the current ship location. The bearing value will change and at this point you will need to adjust your heading to the value specified.
Adjusting Your Bearing Explanation
- This diagram will help you understand how adjusting your bearing will modify your longtitude and latitude.
- The green and red arrows and the black (ok, dark grey) dots show how the bearing affects the change in longtitude and latitude values. Green arrows indicate where a value increases, red ones, where a value decreases and the black dots where the value barely changes at all.
- For example if you bearing is 73 degrees, then you are in the top right hand corner, the green region, and both your longtitude and latitude will increase in value.
- A bearing around 0 or 180 degrees will make virtually no change to the longtitude but maximise the change to the latitude, whilst a bearing of around 90 or 270 degrees will make virtually no change to the latitude but maximise the change to the longtitude.
- There is more information in this Planetary Landing Tutorial
Start coordinates
Destination coordinates
Take Bearing:
Making a custom link to this page
You can make a custom link to this page. You can add a Title and specify a System and Planetary
body that will all be shown on the page. You need to adjust the query string, which is everything in the address
bar after the "findbearing?" text.
As an example if you insert the following after the "?" in the browser address bar:
lat=28.5560&lon=7.1570&title=Gregorys Rest&system=Koli%20Discii&Planet=c 6 a
this will:
- Set the page Destination latitude and longtitude to (28.5560, 7.1570)
- Change the page title to "Find Bearing - Gregorys Rest"
- and show the specified System and Planet under the title.