Blink Comparator

kt32 · Jan 10, 2015

Hi,

I just entered the forum the first time. Mainly to introduce myself and also to entertain you with a new aspect to the game I found.

Since people already mentioned that one can find stars by flying away from the system and then towards it and then watch out for moving objects I wondered
whether the game offers enough accuracy in its star field display and controls so that I could use the principle involved in a blink comparator (check wikipedia, the forum doesn't like my links).

Let me tell you the good news - it does, as you can see from the included gif. Oh the forum won't let me, well try your luck with the following:

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You can see two blinking objects the left is Frendian A and the other is probably the second star in the Frendian system I intend to explore next.
Taking two images from the same starfield is possible when getting out of Supercruise mode and stoping. For that only the keyboard should be used, then the starfield remains the same.
The distance from Frendian A is chosen according to the maximum Binary system sizes which is given as 1000Au or 1000 Astronomical Units = 499 004.784 light seconds according to Google.

I guess one could write a little program for this to make the blink comparison more efficient.

I'm totally amazed that it actually works. I would have expected micro mouse movements to spoil the starfield. Great job people!

Best Regards,

KT

RedWizzard · Jan 10, 2015

kt32 said:

Noce job Commander!

erbal · Jan 10, 2015

If you are as close to the stars as that image suggests, you'd probably be quicker doing the anomolous movement thing ... get above 40c and look at the stars in the top corners - that's where they move the most, head on you'll see very little movement.

kt32 · Jan 10, 2015

I'm glad you like it, I found the other star by the way, it is Frendian B and has a 245200Ls distance to Frendian A.

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erbal said:
If you are as close to the stars as that image suggests, you'd probably be quicker doing the anomolous movement thing ... get above 40c and look at the stars in the top corners - that's where they move the most, head on you'll see very little movement.

Well that was my second thought, it takes a little bit of time to get out to 569000Ls.

Thanks for reposting RedWizzard.

lazerus · Jan 10, 2015

Nice work.

Valimbriz · Jan 11, 2015

Isn't this what the basic discovery Scanner is for?

kt32 · Jan 25, 2015

I have to admit that discovering the weapons groups and the need to put the discovery scanner there took me some time. On the other hand you still have to fly to the next star and you can't easily select it even though you can see it in the system view, also the basic discovery scanner only has a range of 500Ls whereas the maximum binary star distance can be around 500000Ls.

deMangler · Jan 25, 2015

Nicely done! Thanks for the inspiration!
Makes me feel like playing again.

EMarkM · Jan 25, 2015

Valimbriz said:
Isn't this what the basic discovery Scanner is for?

Yes, but the range is very limited.

I have only just managed to buy the next scanner up, and even that only doubles the small range.

The Advanced version, which reveals everything, is way out of my reach at the moment, and techniques such as this are the only way to find "everything".

Well done, OP