Sag A* - ZUNUAE - FROARKS - BLEAE AEWSY - SKAUDAI - FLYIEDGAI - TRAIKEOU - BUBBLE - HEART & SOUL - LBN 623

Ziggy Stardust · Apr 25, 2015

Sag A* - ZUNUAE - FROARKS - BLEAE AEWSY - SKAUDAI - FLYIEDGAI - TRAIKEOU - BUBBLE - HEART & SOUL - LBN 623

A couple of screenshots from my trip to Sagittarius A* and a lot of them from my sightseeing trip back.The idea was to get to the center and then travel towards the Heart and Soul Nebulae on the edge. Picking up Nebulae as I went.

Sagittarius A*

Setting off
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I rather like Molten Metal Planets
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And there we are
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ZUNUAE

Close to Sagittarius there's this little black hole nebula
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Couldn't make a decent snapshot because of the star clutter

FROARKS

I guess FROARKS is named after the sound you make when you first see it up close
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BLEAE AEWSY

Also known to me as the Sneezing Dragon Nebula because of the way it looks on the GalMap top down. The actual snapshot (last picture) was less convincing
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SKAUDAI

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FLYIEDGAI

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TRAIKEOU

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One of my sidequests was to find an Earth like with a view. And sure enough TRAIKEOU delivered.
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Ok, so I did find it, but I wasn't the first. Bummer. On the other hand, it's a nice idea to think that CMDR Landolph may have been watching the same scene as I was.

BUBBLE

Getting to Bubble started with a chuckle.
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Well played CMDR Bubble!

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HEART & SOUL

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And there's my Earth like with a view!
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So that's it I thought, time to go home. And then my planned route took me to this little feller

LBN 623

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But then it was really time to get back

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45 days of travel. Now I'm going to buy a Vulture and shoot something

Cmdr PeryplusErithrea · Apr 25, 2015

Ziggy Well done again!
I always love seeing other explorers seeking the unknown.

Hope to meet you out in the black

edgar · Apr 25, 2015

+1 Awesome images CMDR! Thanks for sharing

Olmis Aremja · Apr 25, 2015

Thanks. Really enjoyed looking at those. Can't wait to get back out there. +1

Zed · Apr 25, 2015

About half way to Sag A* myself and only hope to come back with some pics as good as these.

GormDeGamle · Apr 25, 2015

Mr. Starduster - have some rep!
I am still amazed by the marvelous views this procedurally generated galaxy has to offer!

Ulysses_W · Apr 25, 2015

Some great shots there, thanks for sharing Ziggy.

Bacon Sarnie · Apr 25, 2015

How much did you earn for the 45 days when you cashed all the data in Ziggy?
Some beautiful shots there by the way

Vandaahl · Apr 25, 2015

Awesome, cool pics. +1 for the sneezing dragon nebula

Lobstris · Apr 25, 2015

Great shots! I know every explorer first heads to the nebulae, but they do look amazing as they get bigger and bigger as you approach. Really give a sense of scale.

Cmdr Cheese Wedge · Apr 25, 2015

Nice journey Ziggs.
My personal favourite has to be the Bubble Nebula. It's like a freaking bubble... in SPACE!

Saool · Apr 25, 2015

The nice thing about LBN 623 and indeed coming in from outer spinward in general is that it is only about 4 jumps from the end of Sirius Corporations expansion project at Sophis, cutting off a good 2-300 ly off a trip back to civilisation.

Bacon Sarnie · Apr 25, 2015

Cmdr Cheese Wedge said:
Nice journey Ziggs.
My personal favourite has to be the Bubble Nebula. It's like a freaking bubble... in SPACE!

Im sat 15ly above it and going in later today, after RL has finished getting in the way.
Im doing nebula tour and cataloguing as many Neutron stars as possible en route around the galaxy.

Ziggy Stardust · Apr 25, 2015

Bacon Sarnie said:
How much did you earn for the 45 days when you cashed all the data in Ziggy?

About 60 mil. But I have to admit once I started Nebula gazing, scanning took a bit of a backseat. Finding the angles was way more important

Cmdr Cheese Wedge said:
Nice journey Ziggs.
My personal favourite has to be the Bubble Nebula. It's like a freaking bubble... in SPACE!

I never heard of it before. Found it when plotting towards H&S. First I thought it was a really big star when I saw it from a distance. It's a weird and wonderful thing.

Saool said:
The nice thing about LBN 623 and indeed coming in from outer spinward in general is that it is only about 4 jumps from the end of Sirius Corporations expansion project at Sophis, cutting off a good 2-300 ly off a trip back to civilisation.

I was aiming close to that. Never saw LBN until this purple dot in the background of the Milky Way disc started growing.

Glad people like this shots. Making them was a puzzle/joy

Tuub t Tute · Apr 25, 2015

Very impressive

Hopefully the Cartographers gave you a few pennies towards a new Vulture!

Bacon Sarnie · Apr 25, 2015

To be honest I've found the views on approaching a nebula to be fantastic, the views inside them not so.
Thats why my nebula tour became visit the nebulas but try to find as many neutron stars en route, have map view set so I can find them and I plot course via each neutron star etc
Occasionally swith to view scoopables just to make sure I dont become stranded like I almost did in the Perseus Dark Sector.

Ziggy Stardust · Apr 25, 2015

Bacon Sarnie said:
To be honest I've found the views on approaching a nebula to be fantastic, the views inside them not so.

I feel the same way. They're best viewed when just filling the screen so you can make out the shape.

I like how on one side it can be bright blue nebula, but when you go around it it slowly transforms into some ominous black thing.

Bacon Sarnie · Apr 25, 2015

Yup
I dunno what I was expecting, maybe something a bit more like how they do the interior of nebulas in Star Trek, or something along those lines at least.
What I got in my first nebula, the California Nebula, was just dark and a bit red.

Ziggy Stardust · Apr 25, 2015

I knew I wasn't a skilled fighter pilot, but 3 months of exploring untaught me the little skill I had. NPCs will die of laughter before I hit anything

Still ... no reason to gimball it up. I'll improve. You'll see. Need to be in shape to defend the Alliance in Powerplay.

Fen Harel · Apr 28, 2015

Excellent shots Commander!

Everyone else is such a better photographer than me, ah well. I'm impressed and a little jealous. So have some Rep!

I've been to some of these. I hit the Bubble Nebula on Easter and it looked like a big space jellybean.

I have been the far side of the Heart and Soul Nebula and they looked to me - one of them anyway - like a vast winged creature descending on the Galaxy.

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Of course, there is also Barnard's Loop. From certain angles it looks like a creepy clown face. So, the less said about that the better!