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Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
New POI

POI Name: NGC 3532 Cluster
POI Type: Star Cluster
Galmap Ref: HD94114

Desc: "NGC 3532, also commonly known as the Football Cluster or the Wishing Well Cluster, is an open cluster approx 1600 Ly from Sol. On 20 May 1990 it became the first target ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster was first catalogued by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751. It was admired by John Herschel, who thought it one of the finest star clusters in the sky."

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Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
New POI

POI Name: NGC 3699
POI Type: Planetary Nebula
Galmap ref: Hen 2-65

Desc: "NGC 3699 is a planetary nebula in the Centaurus constellation discovered by John Herschel on Apr 1st, 1834. The nebula surrounds the Wolf-Rayet star Hen 2-65, and no other bodies are found inside the nebula. The nebula is diffuse and best observed from outside.

It is thought that the nebula's complex structure is due to multiple stages of mass ejection in which later ejections had much faster velocities, causing compressional shock wave heating of the material when it ran into gases ejected at an earlier time."



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CypherG

CypherG
Think I screwed up with one of the star classifications on the "Twin Eaters" entry. The big star is a Class B Bright Giant (Just now realised supergiants are class I while Bright giants are class II)
 

Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
CypherG said:
Think I screwed up with one of the star classifications on the "Twin Eaters" entry. The big star is a Class B Bright Giant (Just now realised supergiants are class I while Bright giants are class II)
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I find the best solution to use the in-game name type (the one you see on the map): "White supergiant" etc. If you want to use class, then do so like "B-class supergiant". The listed luminosity classes are often way off from actual values (I've seen M3III stars with radius < 1).
 

CMDR MadRaptor

CMDR MadRaptor
Heavy Johnson said:
New POI:

POI Name: Helios Rock Garden
POI Type: Planetary Features
Galmap ref: TYC 3319-306-1

Desc: "Located 600 Ly from Sol, this is one of the most dense systems known, containing over 150 different bodies around a trinary star group. It contains 27 different bodies with rings and dozens of small moons suitable for landing. Perhaps most astonishingly it contains 13 of the rare helium-rich gas giants.

Given the large amount of helium and rocky bodies, some scientists speculate a nearby supernova may have ripped apart a heavy star, which reformed into the system seen today. "


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That also looks ripe for geysers/fumaroles and maybe some organics. Maybe I'll have to take a trip out that way.
 

Baton

Baton
POI name: Steam Horse Nebula geysers
POI type: surface features
Galmap ref: Aiphaisty AB-O d6-204

Desc: Close to this beautiful nebula you can visit two moons with volcanism. First (4C 12.64 24.35 ) offers interesting view on nebula, close bodies and geysers themselves, the second site (4B -19.05 177.40 ) offers great view on the nebula, and despite not being visibly active, there is lots of great looking green crystals around.

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Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
POI name: x Carinae
POI type: Stellar Feature
Galmap ref: x Carinae

Desc: " x Carinae (also V382 Carinae) is a yellow hypergiant in the constellation Carina. At 700 solar radii it is the 10th largest known star by radius and the brightest of the rare yellow hypergiant class when seen from Earth. The x Carinae system also contains two smaller stars and a single gas giant providing great views of the hypergiant at 3500 light-seconds.

Visitors should note that Universal Cartographics has both an "x Carinae" and a "X Carinae" (note capitals on the "X") in their database. Use the alternative reference of HD 96918 to avoid confusion."

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Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
Update/change for 'Chi Persei Cluster':

Move photo to top (pre-text).

Desc (top): "The Chi Persei Cluster (NGC 884) is an open cluster of bright O-type and B-type stars and a part of the Perseus OB1 association. Several neutron stars and black holes can also be found as companions. Blue supergiant HD 14143 is also present.

The cluster is also notable for having many of the top-10 largest known stars, all red supergiants:

* RS Persei A, 2nd largest known star, 1264 solar radii
* V439 Persei A, 6th largest known star, 917 solar radii
* V403 Persei A, 7th largest known star, 905 solar radii
* FZ Persei A, 8th largest known star, 823 solar radii
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Remove existing 'RS Persei' POI as redundant? This is a relatively new POI and doesn't show anything particularly unique about RS Persei aside from the known size record.
 

Xydhroz

Xydhroz
POI Name : Herülf's Hammer

POI Type : A Blue Supergiant

GalMap Ref : Hypio Prau AA-A H15

Description : Discover during the Summer Great Expedition (SGE). This A Blue Supergiant do 80 sun and we appear at 2000 sl of the star.

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Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
Xydhroz said:
POI Name : Herülf's Hammer

POI Type : A Blue Supergiant

GalMap Ref : Hypio Prau AA-A H15
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Hi Xydhroz,

Supergiants by themselves are not worthy of POI - there are many many of them in the game. Is there something particularly unique, interesting, or important about this (and previous) supergiant?
 

Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
POI name: NGC 2899
POI type: Planetary Nebula
Galmap ref: GSC 8588-0317


Desc: "NGC 2899 is a red-green planetary nebula in the constellation Vela, approximately 6500 light years from Sol. The nebula was discovered by John Herschel on Feb 27th, 1835.

The nebula is being generated in the usual way by a Wolf-Rayet star expelling its' outer layers. There are no other significant bodies near the star."

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Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
Update In Progress (updated to post 1734)

Added:

- VV Cephei
- Little Dumbbell Nebula
- The Hemoglobin Nebula (w/o Cmdr names)
- The Scarred Planet (w/o Cmdr names)
- Stock 2 Open Cluster
- Lich
- Mira
- Helios Rock Garden
- Rigel
- Spark Geysers
- Mad Hatter Nebula
- Mad Hatter's Geysers
- Pencil Nebula
- Door to Heaven
- Door to Heaven Geysers
- NGC 3532 Cluster
- NGC 3699
- Steam Horse Nebula Geysers
- x Carinae
- Ascent


Updated:

- Cave Nebula
- Pleiades (add picture)
- Twin Eaters -> Stellar Feature, pulsar->neutron star
- Chi Persei Cluster
- Burnell Pulsar -> Keck Binary Pulsar, description updated
- Sunny Side Up -> changed to Other POI, description updated
- Star One (linked to route provided here)


Pending:

- Vela Furnace: Not a record breaker for mass, gravity or surface temperature; need more info on if this has other interesting qualities.


Not Added:

- Glowing Green Giants / Glowing White Giants (#1703, #1704): Needs names, pictures, descriptions. Better to have other explorers visit and document them and have choice of names.
- Clemenceau's Ashes: supergiants are not unusual
- Herülf's Hammer: supergiants are not unusual


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Roqinn

Roqinn
A ringed, snow white ammonia world - LYRUEWRY BK_R d4-12 7
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4 WW around parent star - BLU PHLAI QT-Z d13-23
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I'm horrible with names. If you need other pics of these I can post more.
 

Heavy Johnson

Heavy Johnson
Roqinn said:
A ringed, snow white ammonia world - LYRUEWRY BK_R d4-12 7

4 WW around parent star - BLU PHLAI QT-Z d13-23

I'm horrible with names. If you need other pics of these I can post more.
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Do you have other pictures of the ammonia world? It does not look particularly white to me.

Any details on the water worlds? Anything interesting about them? The more details we get, the better entries we produce.
 

Roqinn

Roqinn
I didn't get a SS of the system with the ammonia world unfortunately. Just another shot selfie shot at a different angle. System map showed it to be pretty white. *shrug* I wont go backwards.

As for the water worlds, they were pretty standard. There was just 4 of them orbiting the parent star. I do have detail shots of those which I will include.

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The reason I included the 4 WW is that I am heading to a POI that has 4 WW in it. I figured if it could get listed, then so could this one. Up to you.
 

Baton

Baton
POI name: Reclamation geysers
POI type: surface feature
Galmap ref: Hypi Bra TI-B d25

Desc: At the far edge of Wagar's Reach one can visit this easily accesible and very active field of silicate vapour geysers. Beside great views it is a good source of Niobium and Molybdenum. Head over to 1 C A moon and look for coordinates -16.67 134.16

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POI name: Premonition geysers
POI type: surface feature
Galmap ref: Koijoo XS-T d3-40

Desc: Deep inside Wagar's reach you can stop at two very active water geysers sites on binary pair of ice worlds facing each other from close distance. Head to Koijoo XS-T d3-40 4A 16.48 -44.88 and to 4B 41.97 162.54

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Baton

Baton
Proposed updates to Mystery POI: Conflux Abandoned Settlements
GalMap Ref: Pru Aescs HW-S b31-2

it reads:
Settlement locations in the Scutum-Sagittarii Conflux are as follows :

Conflux (ERP 002):

System: PRU AESCS TY-J A64-1
Beacon around: 1
Rally Point (settlement) on: 3

System: PRU AESCS HW-S B31-2
Beacon around: A
Rally Point (settlement) on: CD1, -7.29 / -35.91
SETTLEMENT FOUND by CoR PILOT JAN 3303

System: PRU AESCS NC-M D7-192
Beacon around: A2A or A
Rally Point (settlement) on: A3A


The full lists would be:

System: PRU AESCS TY-J A64-1
Alpha settlement on: 3 -66.47, -56.13
Found by CMDR Robbie Junior 23rd Feb 3303:


System: PRU AESCS HW-S B31-2
Beta settlement on: CD1 -7.2989, -35.9180
Found by CMDR TheTick 13th Jan 3303:


System: PRU AESCS OI-K A64-0
Gamma settlement on: 1A 64.2, 74.4
Found by CMDR Sajime Chent-Shi 11th Feb 3303


System: PRU AESCS NC-M D7-192
Delta settlement on: A3A -53.36 -48.91
Found by CMDR's Goliat and Baton 7th Feb 3303

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Baton

Baton
POI name: Icarus
POI type: black hole
Galmap ref: Phleedgoea FG-Y g762

Desc: Thanks to being really close to Flaming Torch Nebula this black hole offers some exeptional views for pilots brave enough to fly their ships very close to it

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