How to locate extra suns in Trinary star system?

[jpinard]

I'm in a Trinary Star System. The first star with the nav beacon and all it's unexplored planets were easy to find, but I can't find a way to target the other unexplored suns. nor even a way to drive to them as the radar thingie is super confusing. How are people completing exploration with the extra suns?

Thanks!

 

[Mikey2305]

The secondary will generally be on the same orbit line as the primary so just follow the line and you will generally find it. Third and subsequent ones could be anywhere. If you pick up on a ship heading from a star that will probably be it. You could do the search for something moving against the background thing but you need good eyesight and lots of patience. They will be a very very long way away and take ages to reach in SC... Not sure if they are worth it in terms of cash reward against time spent but would be if they have earth like planets. The exploring dynamic is fun for me atm but i could imagine that finding every last body could become tedious!

 

[Aran Thule]

Not a perfect method but might give you ideas:
Option A:
Look for other ships that start away from the first star or are heading into the unknown and follow them
Option B:
If you can check the system map to see what colour the star is.
Head away from the main star and get to a high speed.
Use head view to look around and see if any points of light are moving at a different rate to the others
Rotate 180 degrees and do the same so your looking at the stars that were previously blocked by the underside of the ship.
Turn around and head towards the star and repeat the two steps mentioned above.

 

[FoxTwo]

In general I use "parallax" to find them. I just look for stars that seem bright(er) then fly towards them for abit and then I fly at an angle and see if they move vs the other background stars.

Takes a lot of work actually... sometimes I can spend 2 hours or so in 1 system just to find all the planets and stars, and then when I sell the data it's only like 1300 credits

 

[Iede]

Yes, in the far future nothing beats the plain eyesight when it comes to find stars
Basically it was already described above. You move at high speed in supercruise having a suspicious star somewhere at your side window and watch if it moves or not. Sometimes npcs can point the right star to you. It can be time-consuming, but that's the joy of exploration

 

[RikonGB]

You could do the search for something moving against the background thing but you need good eyesight and lots of patience. They will be a very very long way away and take ages to reach in SC.

This is how I have managed to locate them previously.

Once scanning in the eagle jumping between systems to gather scan data, but being in a rush forgot to fit a fuel scoop ended up in a system with no stations and ran out of fuel.
Just as well ship had a self destruct option otherwise would still be floating there still as there was no option to send a distress signal when the tank went dry.

 

[Avnas]

sometimes if you can't see orbit lines you have to use parallax movement to confirm the planet or star you aim at is correct (only in-system objects will move relative to other stars)

i often use this method to pick out objects hundreds of thousands of LS away

 

[Wolfox]

This thing about the system data, If you sell it, your ship data has e copy or that system becomes unexplored again?

 

[jpinard]

So I got really lucky and foundthe binary star using a combination of what everyone wrote above (thanks!) Now trying to find that 3rd star the same way is proving terribly difficult.

 

[Vandaahl]

You could do the search for something moving against the background thing but you need good eyesight and lots of patience.

This indeed, but note this first. Near a start, space is dark due to dust and other dark matter. Therefore, only the brightest stars are visible, or (and this is important) the most closest. Orange stars, red dwarfs, brown dwarfs and other faint stuff are almost always not visible when they are close neighbours (I don't mean compagnions) of the star you visit. When they are visible when you are near a star, then those are almost always close compagnions and theirfore the meat and potatoes your are after. Now do the thing Mikey2305 said, but do not fly directly to them, otherwise they won't move against the background. position them in the corner of your canopy and start to fly forward and keep an eye on them. Sometimes they are 40.000 LS (or even more) away, so be patient.

It takes a short while, but you'll get a nose for it. Above method almost never failed me.