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Advice to all cartographers and explorers: when approaching a high mountain from orbital cruise, always set your flight path to one side of it. Do not assume that you will always be able to glide to and land on the summit.
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Reason for warning: this evening I had an extremely close call on MYRIESLY EC-B c27-2407 2 B. I was doing a flyby to see where might be a good place to land to get a screenshot with the Amethyst Cloud nebula in the background when I noticed a particularly tall-looking mountain, so I set a course, thinking to measure the height. As I got closer, I saw that the summit was quite flat and so I attempted to land on it. At about 31km altitude I realised how tall it was and that I was in trouble - I was not sure if I would hit it before reaching the drop-out altitude of 25km. I had no time to turn around or pull away and hit the transition to glide at 25km with the mountain staring me in the face and pulled up as much as I could, thinking that this would be the last thing I saw before the insurance screen. My throttle was zero, with full pips in engines (I had no time to turn on the power distributor and put all power to shields) and I was pulling up as hard as I could when I dropped out of glide, still rapidly approaching the flat summit. I crashed at 162m/s, thankfully at a narrow angle, and came to a halt on the summit with 95% hull remaining. The co-ordinates of the summit are roughly -10.8 / -165.7 (I have trouble reading the numbers, see the screenshot below that I took just after the event). I went ahead and measured the height of the mountain anyway: 16.7km (+/- ~200m).
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This is the tallest mountain I have come across, so I'm submitting it here as an outstanding surface feature. MYRIESLY EC-B c27-2407 is ~5LY from the system at the centre of the Amethyst Cloud nebula, MYRIESLY HR-N e6-4354 (I'll check the exact distance next time I'm on, which might not be until later in the week, likewise for the other data on the table marked with ? EDIT: now added).
4.78LY from waypoint 10
MYRIESLY EC-B c27-2407
G7VAB
2 B (Rocky) (0.12g) (1743Ls)
Notes: 16.7km tall mountain at -10.8 / -165.7




Myriesly EC-B c27-2407 2 B mountain crash.jpgMyriesly EC-B c27-2407 2 B mountain.jpg
Fly safe (and land more carefully than I did)!
 
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Hello Akira, i was busy with the quick leg between waypoint 2 and waypoint 3 (and real life duties ...)

Here an entry for:
04: EAGLE NEBULA (300LY radius from NGC 6611 GMD 1073)
725.45 LY from NGC 6611 GMD 1073Eagle Sector TJ-Q b5-8M2A (Icy) (0.17 g) (558 LS)Yttrium, Cadmium, Vanadium

Following, the data with BBCode for your convenience

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[TD]25 LY from NGC 6611 GMD 1073[/TD]
[TD]Eagle Sector TJ-Q b5-8[/TD]
[TD]M[/TD]
[TD]2A (Icy) (0.17 g) (558 LS)[/TD]
[TD][COLOR="#0000FF"]Yttrium[/COLOR], [COLOR="#FFFF00"]Cadmium[/COLOR], [COLOR="#00FF00"]Vanadium[/COLOR]
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The rock rats have been working like mad (someone even exploded), and yet we have only produced another non-green system :(

Waypont #4 Eagle NebulaDistance from waypointSystem NameStar ClassDistance and gravityPlanetTypeZnCrVAsMnSeGeZrNbSnMoCdWHgTeRuTcPoYSb
NGC 6611 GMD 107326,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(27,59LS) (0,13g)1HMCXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(46,44LS) (0,12g)2HMCXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(86,21LS) (0,66g)3HMCXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(482,48LS) (0,05g)6 ARXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(482,65LS) (0,05g)6 BRXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1482,97LS) (0,16g)8 ARXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1485,49LS) (0,18g)8 BRXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1912,58LS) (0,22g)9 ARXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1910,21LS) (0,2g)9 BRXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1978,03LS) (0,11g)10 ARXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(2819,32LS) (0,15g)11 AICEXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(2821,33LS) (0,17g)11 BICEXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(2821,33LS) (0,05g)11 B AICEXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(2829,31LS) (0,12g)11 CICEXXXXXX

Tis is a silly place... we are moving on now.
 
Eagle Sector JH-V c2-4 A 1 : Deep canyon (9 km) at 10.5940, -137.1162
Eagle Sector JH-V c2-4 A 7 E : No coordinates. Just land on light side. Beautiful view on binary planet and gas giant behind it on blue glowy ice-looking (yet it's rocky) planet with eagle nebula and stars in background, prolly the best looking Icy planet encountered so far. Not bad for an Yttrium+2 planet.
Thank you. linked this post in the list

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Advice to all cartographers and explorers: when approaching a high mountain from orbital cruise, always set your flight path to one side of it. Do not assume that you will always be able to glide to and land on the summit.
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Reason for warning: this evening I had an extremely close call on MYRIESLY EC-B c27-2407 2 B. I was doing a flyby to see where might be a good place to land to get a screenshot with the Amethyst Cloud nebula in the background when I noticed a particularly tall-looking mountain, so I set a course, thinking to measure the height. As I got closer, I saw that the summit was quite flat and so I attempted to land on it. At about 31km altitude I realised how tall it was and that I was in trouble - I was not sure if I would hit it before reaching the drop-out altitude of 25km. I had no time to turn around or pull away and hit the transition to glide at 25km with the mountain staring me in the face and pulled up as much as I could, thinking that this would be the last thing I saw before the insurance screen. My throttle was zero, with full pips in engines (I had no time to turn on the power distributor and put all power to shields) and I was pulling up as hard as I could when I dropped out of glide, still rapidly approaching the flat summit. I crashed at 162m/s, thankfully at a narrow angle, and came to a halt on the summit with 95% hull remaining. The co-ordinates of the summit are roughly -10.8 / -165.7 (I have trouble reading the numbers, see the screenshot below that I took just after the event). I went ahead and measured the height of the mountain anyway: 16.7km (+/- ~200m).
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This is the tallest mountain I have come across, so I'm submitting it here as an outstanding surface feature. MYRIESLY EC-B c27-2407 is ~5LY from the system at the centre of the Amethyst Cloud nebula, MYRIESLY HR-N e6-4354 (I'll check the exact distance next time I'm on, which might not be until later in the week, likewise for the other data on the table marked with ?).
est. 5LY LY from waypoint 10MYRIESLY EC-B c27-2407G?2 B (Rocky) (0.11g) ~1200Ls?)Notes: 16.7km tall mountain at -10.8 / -165.7




Fly safe (and land more carefully than I did)!
Super, I will do the next waypoints this week. If this post end up overlooked remind me it, i want to put in the list!
 
32.07 LY from Eagle Sector EL-Y D203Eagle Sector JH-V C2-39Fa1MB0.19g8.62 LsRuthenium, niobium, tin, chromium, zinc, zirconium
a2HMC0.55g15 LsPolonium, Niobium, tin, Germanium, Vanadium, Zinc
a3HMC0.73g27 LsPolonium, Molybdenum, Chromium, Manganese, Vanadium
Woot, a red syste, they are precious, thank you a lot!
repped
can i just be pedant and note that reference system is different from POI. reference system to calculate distance from is written in OP over every list.
put your entries in the list nevertheless!
Keep em coming!

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Hello Akira, i was busy with the quick leg between waypoint 2 and waypoint 3 (and real life duties ...)

Here an entry for:
04: EAGLE NEBULA (300LY radius from NGC 6611 GMD 1073)
725.45 LY from NGC 6611 GMD 1073Eagle Sector TJ-Q b5-8M2A (Icy) (0.17 g) (558 LS)Yttrium, Cadmium, Vanadium

Following, the data with BBCode for your convenience

HTML:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 1500, align: left"]
[TR]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]25 LY from NGC 6611 GMD 1073[/TD]
[TD]Eagle Sector TJ-Q b5-8[/TD]
[TD]M[/TD]
[TD]2A (Icy) (0.17 g) (558 LS)[/TD]
[TD][COLOR="#0000FF"]Yttrium[/COLOR], [COLOR="#FFFF00"]Cadmium[/COLOR], [COLOR="#00FF00"]Vanadium[/COLOR]
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[/TR]
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Super, and I love your dump format!!! repped!

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The rock rats have been working like mad (someone even exploded), and yet we have only produced another non-green system :(

Waypont #4 Eagle NebulaDistance from waypointSystem NameStar ClassDistance and gravityPlanetTypeZnCrVAsMnSeGeZrNbSnMoCdWHgTeRuTcPoYSb
NGC 6611 GMD 107326,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(27,59LS) (0,13g)1HMCXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(46,44LS) (0,12g)2HMCXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(86,21LS) (0,66g)3HMCXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(482,48LS) (0,05g)6 ARXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(482,65LS) (0,05g)6 BRXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1482,97LS) (0,16g)8 ARXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1485,49LS) (0,18g)8 BRXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1912,58LS) (0,22g)9 ARXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1910,21LS) (0,2g)9 BRXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(1978,03LS) (0,11g)10 ARXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(2819,32LS) (0,15g)11 AICEXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(2821,33LS) (0,17g)11 BICEXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(2821,33LS) (0,05g)11 B AICEXXXXXX
26,02Eagle Sector JH-V c2-0K(2829,31LS) (0,12g)11 CICEXXXXXX

Tis is a silly place... we are moving on now.
inspector confirms this system is silly.
repped and list up to date.
 
And it takes quite a lot of frustration to make the Rock-Rats turn away from a system, I can say:D
After you left I found no less than 4 Metallic Meteorites and none would give away the VR Mat...
We will get the system down on it's knees. Even if it requires us to fly back from Beagle point for it.
 
Wow, these rares really ARE rare aren't they? I've used the very kindly produced list and am driving round like a loon trying to find the right deposits - seems to be the one with the single bar at the bottom I need to be looking for, but even then: I've only found enough good stuff for one 100% jump.

Sigh. I'll get there in the end.
 
Wow, these rares really ARE rare aren't they? I've used the very kindly produced list and am driving round like a loon trying to find the right deposits - seems to be the one with the single bar at the bottom I need to be looking for, but even then: I've only found enough good stuff for one 100% jump.

Sigh. I'll get there in the end.

Just hit the road, Jack...:)
 
Wow, these rares really ARE rare aren't they? I've used the very kindly produced list and am driving round like a loon trying to find the right deposits - seems to be the one with the single bar at the bottom I need to be looking for, but even then: I've only found enough good stuff for one 100% jump.

Sigh. I'll get there in the end.
The single bar is the second best for really rares. You want the double bar with the same sound for the best chance of rares. Often you'll find these in groups of 3, to that enhances your chance of finding something worthwhile. These are the metal meteorites and golden outcrop type of deals.
 
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I'm about to publish a pic made by Zeeman (CMDR Barefoot Bandit) that explains the wave scanner lines, in OP.
Also soon there will be a Prospectors Q&A live session on Discord, where Rock Rats and Scientists alike will merge their efforts to answer questions of CMDRs that didn't have time to dig the ins and outs of prospecting before departing. Stay tuned, ufficial announcements will come soon (TM).
 
RwJltJQ.jpg


Here we are. It seems to me that common experience is:
Metallic Meteorite: best chance to drop VR or R. Often they come in groups of 3 in a 100m radius. Even if they give the best chance of VR or R it's not guaranteed. Many times they only give Very Commons
Metallic Outcrop: second best chance to find VR or R.
Mesosiderite: they can give a VR, but it's not frequent.
Bronzite Chordite, Common Outcrop: in the vast majority of cases they give only Very Common or maybe a Common. Tough it might happen they pop a VR, it's VERY infrequent, and reported only few times. For practicality reasons you might want to skip those entirely: if you are just looking for a VR they are a waste of time.

OFC if you want to contribute to the scientific side, nothing should be skipped ever and everything should be inspected and reported.

Going to paste this in the spoilerized section of OP.

PIC is from CMDR Barefoot Bandit (Zeeman)
 
I don't know why, but it always happened like that. The forum formatting puts spoilers in places i don't want them, and I can never understand how to remove it. After 30 minutes I'm sick, we will have the double spoiler in the mini prospecting guide. I'm also going to have a walk... see you later.

RAGE
 
Ok, i won the fight against the formatting forum.
We have a new op with:
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QUICK GUIDE ON PROSPECTING AND JUMP-BOOST GALACTIC HIGHWAY PROJECT
We are only interested in jump-boost materials. Materials are divided into 4 categories based on their rarity, and to rapresent this they have "leaves" symbols near their name in hte ingame inventory:

VERY COMMON (1 leaf): we are not interested in those, they are not for jump-boosts but mainly for SRV. Beeing very common they can be found almost everywherE.
COMMON (2 leaves): Arsenic, Vanadium and Germanium are the common ones for Boosting.
RARE (3 leaves): Niobium and Cadmium are the rare for Boosting.
VERY RARE (4 leaves): Yttrium and Polonium are the very rare for Boosting

3-2-1 RULE
Another important thing to understand is the 3-2-1 rule: one planet will yeald only 3 types of common, 2 types of rare, and 1 type of very rare.
This bring to the following conclusions:
1: if in a planet you find a very rare that's neither Yttrium or Polonium, that planets does not yeld any premium boost material. If so please write in the planet notes.
2: some planets yeld 4 different boosts mats or even 5, including a very rare. An example could be Yttrium, Cadmium, Arsenic, Germanium. This planet yelds a very rare, a rare and 2 commons for boosts. It's the best scenario for boosting mats. These quadruple planets are invaluable for explorers and they don't seem very frequent. In fact here you can hoard intermediate boost mats while looking for the very difficult to find very rare one.

These planets will be called Yttrium+3 or Polonium+3 depending the very rare they yeld, and are the good ones to form a Galactic Highway rich of boost mats, and they are the ones we are mostly interested in. For these planets we will do an exception and accept them even if they are in the direct line of 2 subsequent POIs but outside their 300LY radius. Also, even rarer Yttrium+4 and Polonium+4 planets have been found and are of uttermost importance


Here we have a disgram with the Wave Scanner Signals, with courtesy of CMDR Barefoot Bandit (Zeeman)

RwJltJQ.jpg

Metallic Meteorite: best chance to drop VR or R. Often they come in groups of 3 in a 100m radius. Even if they give the best chance of VR or R it's not guaranteed. Many times they only give Very Commons
Metallic Outcrop: second best chance to find VR or R.
Mesosiderite: they can give a VR, but it's not frequent.
Bronzite Chordite, Common Outcrop: in the vast majority of cases they give only Very Common or maybe a Common. Tough it might happen they pop a VR, it's VERY infrequent, and reported only few times.
 
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Wait, hang on. That's not...that's a rough copy of the new forum thread we're making to carry on A Prospectors Guide to the Galaxy. It's not quite finished. I only shared it with a couple of the guys in Discord so we could help put it together before posting it...what is happening?

Also, that image was made by Zieman, not Zeeman (Barefoot Bandit). Original post here.

Edit: To clairfy: DW Prospecting Central Guide is a document that I created with the help of Baroness Galaxy, LordFedora and John Rutherford as a draft of a thread to carry on A Prospectors Guide to the Galaxy and relieve Erimus from having to update yet another OP. It was not exactly intended for public viewing. Pictures are missing, links are broken and it's not fully formatted (because it's going to be a forum post and I'll do the formatting there). :)
 
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The Rock rats have been using the last few days to travel to NGC 6357.
We have laboured hard and managed to prospect one [REDACTED] USELESS system:

Waypoint #5 NGC 6357Distance from waypointSystem NameStar ClassDistance and gravityPlanetTypeZnCrVAsMnSeGeZrNbSnMoCdWHgTeRuTcPoYSb
CL PISMIS 2
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223F(662.99LS) (0.20G)A 1HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
F(830.76LS) (0.17G)A 2HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
F(1124.72LS) (0.17G)A 3HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
F(1993.55LS) (0.18G)A 4HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
F(1994.48LS) (0.15G)A 5HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
F(2462.20LS) (0.14G)A 6HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
M(49880,94LS) (0.11G)B 1HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
M(49659,66LS) (0.11G)B 2HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(49659,86LS) (0.13G)B 3HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
M(50082,93LS) (0.1G)B 4R-ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
M(50083,23LS) (0.09G)B 5R-ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
M(50931,74LS) (0.09G)B 6ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
M(50931,58LS) (0.08G)B 7ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
M(50158,14LS) (0.11G)B 8ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223
M(50158,43LS) (0.04G)B 8 AICEXXXXXX

Seems tis a silly place as well... keeping on searching further.
 
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Wait, hang on. That's not...that's a rough copy of the new forum thread we're making to carry on A Prospectors Guide to the Galaxy. It's not quite finished. I only shared it with a couple of the guys in Discord so we could help put it together before posting it...what is happening?

Also, that image was made by Zieman, not Zeeman (Barefoot Bandit). Original post here.

Edit: To clairfy: DW Prospecting Central Guide is a document that I created with the help of Baroness Galaxy, LordFedora and John Rutherford as a draft of a thread to carry on A Prospectors Guide to the Galaxy and relieve Erimus from having to update yet another OP. It was not exactly intended for public viewing. Pictures are missing, links are broken and it's not fully formatted (because it's going to be a forum post and I'll do the formatting there). :)
Ugh, sry, I will remove it. No mistery, Baroness Galaxy gave it to me and for MY FAULT i didn't understand it was private yet. I think it's a very good guide to share, but no worries, it's vanished!.

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The Rock rats have been using the last few days to travel to NGC 6357.
We have laboured hard and managed to prospect one [REDACTED] USELESS system:

Waypoint #5 NGC 6357Distance from waypointSystem NameStar ClassDistance and gravityPlanetTypeZnCrVAsMnSeGeZrNbSnMoCdWHgTeRuTcPoYSb
CL PISMIS 292.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D223F(662.99LS) (0.20G)A 1HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D224F(830.76LS) (0.17G)A 2HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D225F(1124.72LS) (0.17G)A 3HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D226F(1993.55LS) (0.18G)A 4HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D227F(1994.48LS) (0.15G)A 5HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228F(2462.20LS) (0.14G)A 6HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(49880,94LS) (0.11G)B 1HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(49659,66LS) (0.11G)B 2HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(49659,86LS) (0.13G)B 3HMCXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(50082,93LS) (0.1G)B 4R-ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(50083,23LS) (0.09G)B 5R-ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(50931,74LS) (0.09G)B 6ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(50931,58LS) (0.08G)B 7ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(50158,14LS) (0.11G)B 8ICEXXXXXX
92.63NGC 6357 SECTOR DL-Y D228M(50158,43LS) (0.04G)B 8 AICEXXXXXX

Seems tis a silly place as well... keeping on searching further.
Sup, thank you, it's worth publishing, but the system name is somewhat messed D223, D224, D225, D226, D227 or D228?
Thanks! will update later, repped.
 
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