This is a cartographic report only!
This week I have had very little time to play, so I have not made any planetary landings and confined myself to finding systems and worlds that might be of interest. I was able to reach an altitude of 2791LY and the view so far above the Galactic Plane is both spectacular and desolate: you really feel like you're going out on a limb. I could have gone farther but would have needed to use two max FSD boosts (there and back) and decided to save my materials, as I only have enough for two. The stars at higher altitude than the one I reached were all T Tauri systems, so I would advise explorers to exercise caution when in this region, as it is possible to get trapped in a location where even the Fuel Rats will not be able to help. With this in mind, it occurred to me that some people might use their materials to reach the places I was able to get to in my 34LY Asp, so here are two systems that might be worth prospecting in for materials, as they have a reasonable number of land-able worlds of different kinds:
QUEMEOU HG-Y c0 (83.7, 2561, 25881.0: 3 metal-rich, 5 HMC, 1 rocky, 8 icy)
QUEMEOU BQ-Y d4 (52.6, 2753, 25923.8: 1 metal-rich, 5 HMC (unscanned but worlds in these orbits/colours are HMC, iirc only the innermost planet, which I did scan, had the metal-rich HUD icon), 20 moons (unscanned, probably mostly rocky))
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There are several locations that might be of interest for sightseers rather than prospectors but the only one I found that I would say is outstanding is QUEMEOU FW-W d1-6 1 (20.2, 2763, 25981.0), which is an Earth-like World. This system has been tagged already and has no land-able worlds but it's quite a sight to see an Earth-like World against the backdrop of the Milky Way. I don't want to spoil anyone's enjoyment by posting screenshots - the view of the Milky Way itself at this altitude is something worth seeing for yourself and the screenshots would not do it justice. I remembered reading beforehand about an Earth-like World in this region and I think this might be it, in which case it may be the farthest Earth-like World above the Galactic Plane yet discovered.
The other possible points of interest are:
QUEMEOU XJ-A d13 A 4 a (41.4, 2745, 25848.4) / d14 2 a (43.5, 2762, 25862.0) These moons are both in close orbit of Y dwarfs just outside of their rings and have an orbital speed fast enough to outrun a ship with zero throttle in supercruise (d13 A 4 a is the faster of the two).
QUEMEOU DQ-Y c1 1 f (63.8, 2621, 25884.5) This moon sports an unusual pink/black colouration and has a series of deep and winding canyons so close together that there are only thin, snake-like ridges separating them.
QUEMEOU ZE-A d7 B 2 (68.2, 2627, 25865.0) This planet has a green-ish colour and a tight cluster of three large, rayed craters in one hemisphere. The other hemisphere has a rayed crater slighter larger than the biggest of these. Otherwise, this world has comparatively few craters, indicating a young surface, which also has some deposits of grey material amidst the green.
QUEMEOU IH-V c2-1 A 6 (42.9, 2671, 25967.7) This world has a very large rayed crater, with respect to its size. The interior of the crater is very rough and has a few craters of its own - this would not be an easy place for larger ships to land. There is another rayed crater with about half the radius of this nearby. The surface colouration shows different shades of pink with mountains that have a much lighter tint, almost white in places.
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As always, there is the caveat that I'm still learning what counts as outstanding/interesting. Furthermore, I'm not sure exactly where the base camp is for this waypoint, so these worlds may all be too far away to be worth recording here (for reference, the minor POI listed as Altum Sagittarii in the Community Mapping Project is QUEMEOU YE-A e0, located at 34.1, 2849, 25918.1).
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In order not to get too far ahead I have now travelled back to the Amethyst Cloud nebula (the waypoint before Sgr A*) and will look for anything interesting close by. The route planner was a nightmare for me around there, even my 'magic number' was not giving me anything, and in the end I had to manually make my way for the last 360LY or so. I'll confine my efforts to within one jump of this waypoint so that other players do not have similar problems.
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In the course of manually searching the galaxy map for the Phipoea Nebula, before I checked the proper name, I noticed a nebula not currently recorded in the Community Mapping Project (
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116450 ). It is called the "G2 DUST CLOUD", which I now plan to visit before heading for Phipoea - it does not seem like a long detour. There are other nebulae on the far side of the core that I have not seen mentioned in the Community Mapping Project, as well - there are major POIs yet to discover out there!.
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If you want me to edit the post to add screenshots of a couple of the QUEMEOU worlds or system views, please ask (I'm trying to keep the size of my posts down by giving details instead of posting MBs of images with these details on).
Well done guys.
