Your Greatest Discoveries

Mengy

Mengy
My own personal discovery that I’m most proud of is the red & orange Herbig star that I found on my way home from the Abyssal Plains after the DWE. I’d never seen a rotating Herbig of that color before in the game, until that point I’d only seen white and bluish Herbigs, so I was very surprised and excited when I realized what I’d found.

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ahwala

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Mengy said:
My own personal discovery that I’m most proud of is the red & orange Herbig star that I found on my way home from the Abyssal Plains after the DWE. I’d never seen a rotating Herbig of that color before in the game, until that point I’d only seen white and bluish Herbigs, so I was very surprised and excited when I realized what I’d found.

http://i.imgur.com/5rLKsKt.jpg

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bRw3EdrgrI
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Awesome find!

For me, it's my one and only Water Giant, and it's more than 65kly away, very close to Beagle Point. The rest of the system had mostly been detail-scanned by other commanders already and I was quite surprised they had missed it:

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And then there's my own 4WW system, one of them ringed:

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Other highlights are:
- An ELW and 2 WW orbiting a Neutron Star
- 2 Black Hole fields
- A class A Supergiant
- An ELW in a system with a Black Hole, Neutron and 2 K-class stars

And then there's a Helium-Rich Gas Giant which I have no idea whether it's rare or not. But I think I have only found/seen this one during my 300kly.
 

Lord Celestine

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CMDR Stallan said:
Great find OP! I've yet to come across such systems... Perhaps I haven't explored this galaxy enough.


This isn't anything compared to WW discoveries, but I just found a massive Icy Body (landable!). Take a look at this thing.

18,525km radius, 2.10G. about 1,500LY from SOL.
http://i.imgur.com/AiDbnpph.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QuOg8A6h.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/JXfKd7qh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DOP3jVfh.jpg


It has long white scars, large craters with blue-ish dust...
Seriously though, I was just making my way - very slowly - towards Jaques and there I run into this oddity. I just had to share it.
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That is much better than a Water World in my opinion! I would definitely trade my system for a beautiful thing like that! WW I find are a dime a dozen but they're still nice to find, but it's hard to find something unique like yours. Was there any different atmospheric/composition on this icy world than others?

Supermoose said:
Greatest? Not sure. Favourite? Absolutely!

http://i.imgur.com/4SWPCjF.png
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That is truly fantastic!

It kind of looks like a Class IV gas giant with the red in it, was there anything special about its composition that made it glow green like that?

ahwala said:
Awesome find!

For me, it's my one and only Water Giant, and it's more than 65kly away, very close to Beagle Point. The rest of the system had mostly been detail-scanned by other commanders already and I was quite surprised they had missed it:

http://screenshotscontent-t5002.xbo...628-94b0-7894567632c3/Screenshot-Original.png

And then there's my own 4WW system, one of them ringed:

http://screenshotscontent-t2002.xbo...fa0-aaa8-5f24665e5f72/Screenshot-Original.png

Other highlights are:
- An ELW and 2 WW orbiting a Neutron Star
- 2 Black Hole fields
- A class A Supergiant
- An ELW in a system with a Black Hole, Neutron and 2 K-class stars

And then there's a Helium-Rich Gas Giant which I have no idea whether it's rare or not. But I think I have only found/seen this one during my 300kly.
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Well that's more water giants than what I've found! ^-^

Lots of people replied to the thread since I last checked in, you've all had pretty great discoveries! Can't wait to see some more awesome stuff!
 
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Duckfat

Duckfat
One of the most interesting things I came across was a ringed T Tauri near Sag A*. I'll post a screenshot when I get home. I noticed a bug as well. The star was casting a shadow on the rings. [squeeeee]

Aside from that I run into a system with multiple neutron stars between Jaques and Sag A. I've had multiple WWs as well, but I think 2-3 were probably the most
 

Lord Celestine

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Duckfat said:
One of the most interesting things I came across was a ringed T Tauri near Sag A*. I'll post a screenshot when I get home. I noticed a bug as well. The star was casting a shadow on the rings. [squeeeee]

Aside from that I run into a system with multiple neutron stars between Jaques and Sag A. I've had multiple WWs as well, but I think 2-3 were probably the most
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What if it was just a really big sunspot casting a shadow on the rings? :T
 

CMDR Stallan

CMDR Stallan
Lord Celestine said:
That is much better than a Water World than my opinion! I would definitely trade my system for a beautiful thing like that! WW I find are a dime a dozen but they're still nice to find, but it's hard to find something unique like yours. Was there any different atmospheric/composition on this icy world than others?
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Thanks!
oh I'm not too sure how unique it is in terms of numbers, but it has no less than "17.7 Earth Masses". That's something, isn't it?

Also, my 4th pic was taken while I'm down in the crater, no filter or graphical mods.
Almost made me feel that the planet had some sort of atmosphere.

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Mengy said:
My own personal discovery that I’m most proud of is the red & orange Herbig star that I found on my way home from the Abyssal Plains after the DWE. I’d never seen a rotating Herbig of that color before in the game, until that point I’d only seen white and bluish Herbigs, so I was very surprised and excited when I realized what I’d found.

http://i.imgur.com/5rLKsKt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/AJQ40Xw.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bRw3EdrgrI
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Recently I found a Herbig star near B-class star, on my way to Veil Nebula. Very nice color against my red Eagle.
My first Herbig star discovery, but apparently it was already scanned by CMDR Old Joe.

Again, you all are way ahead of me in the exploration business!



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Lord Celestine

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CMDR Stallan said:
Thanks!
oh I'm not too sure how unique it is in terms of numbers, but it has no less than "17.7 Earth Masses". That's something, isn't it?

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Recently I found a Herbig star orbiting B-class star. Very nice color against my red Eagle.

My first Herbig star discovery, but apparently it was already scanned by CMDR Old Joe.
Again, you're way ahead of me in the exploration business!



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While the size is impressive, it would just be another icy body if it wasn't for that blue sheen. Can you tell me what star type it was orbiting? And didn't you take a little bit of a risk landing on it with your Corvette when it has 2.1x the gravity of earth?
 

Lord Celestine

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Supermoose said:
It's listed as a gas giant with water based life. Bleia Dryiae HF-W b35-1 if anyone wants to go have a look :)
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Ah to far away for my blood, I'm heading in the opposite direction :p

Perhaps the plankton is glow in the dark? Like some of the sea life here on earth. Although admittedly it is the fungus on earth that emits a greenish glow, so maybe the algae?
 
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CapitanAceRimmer

CapitanAceRimmer
I found a spectacular co-orbitting pair of pristine metallic ringed stars :

http://www.hozbase.co.uk/EliteDangerous/Screenshots/PMRs/LAMBDA%20CRUCIS_6A_MAIN.JPG.

The system was Lambda Crucis. Each of these beauties is a single ring with 30-40 times the mass of most of the other PMRs I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a few. The first is 46.8 Gaz. MT and just under 1,000,000 km in radius and the 2nd just over 1,000,000 km in radius and 32.7 Gaz. MT (that just goes to show, size isn't everything).
 
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Lord Celestine

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CapitanAceR said:
I found a spectacular co-orbitting pair of pristine metallic ringed stars : http://www.hozbase.co.uk/EliteDangerous/Screenshots/PMRs/LAMBDA%20CRUCIS_6A_MAIN.JPG.
The system was Lambda Crucis. Each of these beauties is a single ring with 30-40 times the mass of most of the other PMRs I have ever seen, and I've seen quite a few. One of the rings is over a million km from inner to outer radius, the other, just under. Although the smaller one has a larger mass.
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I hardly ever find systems with ringed stars :(

Great find nonetheless!
 

CMDR Stallan

CMDR Stallan
Lord Celestine said:
While the size is impressive, it would just be another icy body if it wasn't for that blue sheen. Can you tell me what star type it was orbiting? And didn't you take a little bit of a risk landing on it with your Corvette when it has 2.1x the gravity of earth?
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Sure thing, it was a Class A star. Looked pretty normal when I jumped in.

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And yes, the gravity sure was high, but my 7A Thrusters with grade 3 Dirty Drive really handled that well. I also have 1600+ MJ of shield :D
 

Col Frost

Col Frost
This is my favourite first discovered system with 7 ringed stars

http://imgur.com/a/mouiG

This system has 3 waterworlds surrounding an earth like (also has a ringed ammonia world)

http://imgur.com/a/c9Bih

An enormous water world

http://imgur.com/a/7tYtK

A water world with 8 moons

http://imgur.com/a/dQ9BD

You can't get much closer to the main star with a gas giant than this

http://imgur.com/a/QLvX5

http://imgur.com/a/UUnDm

Brother and sister water worlds

http://imgur.com/a/NOzKq

This ringed earthlike

http://imgur.com/a/wrJQa

These two earth likes so close, you can see one from the other!

http://imgur.com/a/wtqDs
 
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