bagged my first neutron star!

hoopy

hoopy
I'm 16,000 LY out and bagged my first neutron star tonight :)

Just wanted to tell someone!

(I plan to head into the neutron star bubble another 2500-3000 LY or so north and explore round there next. Hopefully will get there Friday)
 

hoopy

hoopy
I've seen them get REALLY dense by about 18500 north and 1000 up, I'm maybe not in the ideal east/west location. This one was only one jump out of my way so I took a tiny detour. Will only take an hourish more (Asp doing 33 LY jumps) to get to the dense spot I've found on the map.

Question is whether I come straight back afterwards or go to the core for the obligatory snapshot... Another 10k for a rubbish picture (my pc is 6 years old so I'm on minimum detail) isn't really worth it is it?

Nothing I've seen has wowed me as much as my first trip to Barnard's loop in a cobra...
 

dognosh

dognosh
hoopy said:
I'm 16,000 LY out and bagged my first neutron star tonight :)

Just wanted to tell someone!

(I plan to head into the neutron star bubble another 2500-3000 LY or so north and explore round there next. Hopefully will get there Friday)
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very dense in this area(from 1 LY to 10 LY apart) :
DRYAA FLYUAE CA-A F1281
 

Ripster

Ripster
Thank you for sharing that with us :)

ALSO I love the word BAGGED - I have made a mental note to use it at least 3 times today in conversation :)
 

Himilco

Himilco
Fantastic work!

I've yet to encounter a neutron star. I've read about their stupendous energy and hope to see (and survive seeing!) one myself someday.
 

Fen Harel

Fen Harel
Congratulations commander!

Since it is possible to pick them up just by glancing at nearby systems on the Galaxy Map, I used the existence of an undiscovered neutron or black hole to suggest, very few people have been in that region before. Its a good sign, and a valuable catch!
 

hoopy

hoopy
'bagged' - It seemed the right word somehow :)

Can't remember the last tine I saw a previously discovered world - I deliberately headed sides ways a bit before going corewards so they're all mine!
 

Kerenn

Kerenn
Congratulations ! o7
Me, I saw a brown dwarf planetoid with a 10s revolution day. My first spinning ball :D
But what's "north" ?
 

Mad-Max

Mad-Max
Congratulations! There's a whole field of them mixed with white dwarfs near the FROARKS Nebula at about 15000 Ly from Sol towards the core.
I'm there right now, but I'm willing to share first finds with anyone; there's a lot of them!
 

domaq

domaq
hoopy said:
I've seen them get REALLY dense by about 18500 north and 1000 up, I'm maybe not in the ideal east/west location. This one was only one jump out of my way so I took a tiny detour. Will only take an hourish more (Asp doing 33 LY jumps) to get to the dense spot I've found on the map.

Question is whether I come straight back afterwards or go to the core for the obligatory snapshot... Another 10k for a rubbish picture (my pc is 6 years old so I'm on minimum detail) isn't really worth it is it?

Nothing I've seen has wowed me as much as my first trip to Barnard's loop in a cobra...
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If you haven't been to the Core and the Great Annihilator, it's worth the trip. The view is good but from an Explorer's Bucket List, I'd say the center of the known galaxy is high on the list. :)
 

hoopy

hoopy
I'm in the FROARKS zone now (or.maybe my target 1000 LY away is FROARKS - can't remember!)

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I use west/east to mean the first coordinate, up/down for the second and north/south for the third, so everything moves just like you were flying in an aeroplane.

Is there a different convention?
 

Kerenn

Kerenn
hoopy said:
I'm in the FROARKS zone now (or.maybe my target 1000 LY away is FROARKS - can't remember!)

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I use west/east to mean the first coordinate, up/down for the second and north/south for the third, so everything moves just like you were flying in an aeroplane.

Is there a different convention?
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X, Y and Z.
with X being the sagittal plan (forward, backward), Y the lateral (left, right) and Z the vertical (up, down). If you look at the galmap you'll see thing like " 16000 ; -750 ; 1200 " meaning you are 16000 LY ahead of sol, roughly 750LY to the left and 120LY up. (because Sol is marked as 0;0;0)
But if you take Sag A* as a reference, I guess to me Sol is south of the "disk" our galaxy seems to form.

You can also talk about "core-ward" and "rim-ward" as used in the diskworld books, to show you're going for the center or out to the void between galaxies, and then clockwise or counterclockwise to describe "left" and "right" circumnavigation. You can also use "port side" and "starboard side" like in ye' olden galleons' times, matey !
 
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dognosh

dognosh
Kerenn said:
X, Y and Z.
If you look at the galmap you'll see thing like " 16000 ; -750 ; 1200 " meaning you are 16000 LY ahead of sol, roughly 750LY to the left and 120LY up. (because Sol is marked as 0;0;0)
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no ! :)
In-game map is X,Y,Z(width,height,depth)
16000 is to the left of SOL(if in the bubble looking at the core)
-750, is below SOL
1200 is towards core from SOL.
 

iain666

iain666
It is so natural to look at the plane of the galaxy and assume that it's XY with Z being in and out.

I tend to read the co-ordinates on the map as X,Z,Y just because I find that easier than not thinking of the axis perpendicular to the obvious plane as the Z axis...
 

Kerenn

Kerenn
dognosh said:
no ! :)
In-game map is X,Y,Z(width,height,depth)
16000 is to the left of SOL(if in the bubble looking at the core)
-750, is below SOL
1200 is towards core from SOL.
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Welp ! thanks for pointing that out before I went and lost myself, unable to give clear coordinates...
 
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