Okay, so Kepler's Supernova was visible from earth in 1604.
Logically if you travelled over 411 light years away from Sol in the opposite direction of it, you should be able to see it happen. Further than that, and it would show up as a star in the sky.
I assume this isn't the case in Frontier (I would be amazed beyond belief if that could be taken into account).
Another question would be - since we don't know when a star will go supernova, but we do know some likely candidates, I wonder if the devs have considered having one happen during game time? You'd then have to take that same ripple effect on the night sky into account (ie the supernova won't be visible from a neighbouring star 3 LY away until 3 years game time later )
That would be cute
Logically if you travelled over 411 light years away from Sol in the opposite direction of it, you should be able to see it happen. Further than that, and it would show up as a star in the sky.
I assume this isn't the case in Frontier (I would be amazed beyond belief if that could be taken into account).
Another question would be - since we don't know when a star will go supernova, but we do know some likely candidates, I wonder if the devs have considered having one happen during game time? You'd then have to take that same ripple effect on the night sky into account (ie the supernova won't be visible from a neighbouring star 3 LY away until 3 years game time later )
That would be cute
