trouble is you can't use the parallax technique to find black holes, it's a nightmare with the intermediate scanner when you know there's a black hole but can't see it
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Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy
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trouble is you can't use the parallax technique to find black holes, it's a nightmare with the intermediate scanner when you know there's a black hole but can't see it
Found a black hole and a neutron star orbiting one another. The lensing around the black hole was nice, the neutron star pretty unexciting (not exactly sure what I was expecting from a small stellar remnant only a handful of km across). Still the system had 7 separate stars, with brown dwarfs orbiting the black hole/neutron star pair, and a blue main sequence star off to the side for me to top up my fuel tanks.
I of course had to follow in everyones footsteps and get a little close to the black hole for comfort. Only a bit of fried hull to show for it.
Onward to the Coalsack!
Not sure the Adder is the best ship to be doing this in. Plenty of jump range, but not a great view out of the window.
I of course had to follow in everyones footsteps and get a little close to the black hole for comfort. Only a bit of fried hull to show for it.
Onward to the Coalsack!
Not sure the Adder is the best ship to be doing this in. Plenty of jump range, but not a great view out of the window.
I've been there a week ago. There are couple of earth-likes there, but the search engine of the galaxy map is buggy with the Praea region systems. Usualy it points the wrong star, so write down coordinates of your discovered systems if you check the payment at the end.
Not off the top of my head. What can you tell us about the system (any other suns?) and star (e.g. colour, mass, size, pulse?)?
"W" could be white.
"C" could be cepheid variable (not sure if in the game).
"O" could be a blue star, but that would seem to rule out W being "white".
Edit 1: Wolf Rayet stars use combinations of W, C and O in their classifications but sometimes WC or WO so a bit of a long shot. Could it be "WC zero one"?
Edit 2: Found "WCO" in relation to Wolf Rayet in a couple of places, Not sure if relevant thought.
http://th.nao.ac.jp/MEMBER/nozawa/papers/others/Tominaga2008.pdf
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/202/1/012002/pdf/1742-6596_202_1_012002.pdf
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I don't find Trading or Fighting particularly exciting in this game, so it's been a major increase to my earnings which come chiefly from either exploring or mining.
That would be a Wolf-Rayet star with both Carbon and Oxygen emission lines in its spectrum. As I understand it usually it would only be written as WO1 because some carbon emission is implicit in all WO stars.
There are several different emission lines for Carbon (corresponding to different energy levels) so possibly it has some Carbon lines that are usually not present in a WO1 star. (Wiki page on Wolf-Rayet stars has the full list of what's usually used to distinguish between different points in the WC and WO spectra.)
What's the name of the star?
Question for deep space explorers..
Suppose you found an area of space, tens of thousands of light years away from Sol, an area that encompasses a 1,500 LY sphere of densely packed stars that dwarfs human colonized space, and all of which seem to carry the "unknown permit" tag that denies you access to those systems.
What would you think it was?
And would you tell anyone where it is?
Suppose you found an area of space, tens of thousands of light years away from Sol, an area that encompasses a 1,500 LY sphere of densely packed stars that dwarfs human colonized space, and all of which seem to carry the "unknown permit" tag that denies you access to those systems.
What would you think it was?
- The location of the homeworlds of a soon-to-be-added alien civilization?
- A place where some gigantic FD injected event will be held?
- Or just a bug?
And would you tell anyone where it is?
Question for deep space explorers..
Suppose you found an area of space, tens of thousands of light years away from Sol, an area that encompasses a 1,500 LY sphere of densely packed stars that dwarfs human colonized space, and all of which seem to carry the "unknown permit" tag that denies you access to those systems.
What would you think it was?
- The location of the homeworlds of a soon-to-be-added alien civilization?
- A place where some gigantic FD injected event will be held?
- Or just a bug?
And would you tell anyone where it is?
I am now scoiring your route maps for clues!
I found my first black hole. it was a weird one though, just a few times heavier than the sun and in very close orbit, practically on top of another star.
Ah, it's actually possible http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/smallest_blackhole.html
Too bad it didn't look like that. I'm currently heading towards the edge of the galaxy, nearing the Seagull nebula, then on to Rosetta. Is there anything interesting in the outermost arm? Looks pretty barren on the map.
Ah, it's actually possible http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/smallest_blackhole.html
Too bad it didn't look like that. I'm currently heading towards the edge of the galaxy, nearing the Seagull nebula, then on to Rosetta. Is there anything interesting in the outermost arm? Looks pretty barren on the map.
hey, i'm also currently at seagull nebula. maybe we will meet later today
This one is out that way. Almost on top of the star. Wish it was streaming matter from its blue brother. Perhaps it's the same one?
Alternate view with the other companion in shot: 2 solar masses probably makes it a pin hole! Certainly invisible against the stellar maelstrom.
Here's the system view:
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How the heck are you damaging you ship so much that you need to be repairing things?
On my way back from the core to sell all data
Yep, that's the one. It's a small galaxy after all!
I took a detour to the butterfly nebula after I spotted that on the map. I'm currently sitting inside it yet I'm getting a bit too tired to carry on. I don't want to slam into a planet again by mistake or drift into a star while lining up a screenshot. My plan is to got to Thor's hat, then approach the Seagull Nebula from there.hey, i'm also currently at seagull nebula. maybe we will meet later today
