Bored in Colonia, decided to go exploring

[Dr. Nagi]

Hello commanders,
since it's still a while before pre-scouting for DWE2 begins and I have no idea what else I should do here, I went to EDSM to check the map and noticed something.

I checked every POI box and it seems like there are unexplored areas relatively nearby, so why not go there and check them out?
So i tried finding a waypoint and plotting a route...

Wasn't that easy as the plotter left very huge gaps between discovered POIs, but I managed to come up with this:

As you can see there still is a gap, but I'm sure I'll find my way through there. Also I want to go a little further than that and see what I can find
I will set sail this weekend.
Also how do I have to use the tags to get images displayed directly?
Cheers!

Edit: Thanks iain, fixed the image links

 

[iain666]

Since you're using imgur the easiest way is to mouse over the picture on the site - a URL, Copy button and drop down will appear top right of it. Open the drop down and select 'Get Share Links'. Copy the BBCode (Forums) one and paste directly into your post. Job done.

 

[Nick Sticks]

Looks good, have a good trip.

 

[LifesAJourney]

I checked every POI box and it seems like there are unexplored areas relatively nearby, so why not go there and check them out?

Generally no POIs does not necessarily mean unexplored. Several weeks ago I had the same idea and went to Ishtar, another POI-empty area of the Galaxy. I found lots of tagged systems, lots of paths marked by other Commanders in the past. But still lots of undiscovered stuff. I failed to find a system interesting or unique enough to make a POI but I was pretty close several times. Nevertheless, it was a nice trip so just go according to your plan and have fun!

 

[Sapyx]

These areas are not technically "unexplored", but they are under-explored compared to other regions that are more heavily trafficked.

Secondly, you'll notice that the circled areas are quite dark compared to the surrounding regions. This means there's actually fewer stars there than in the surrounding regions. Fewer stars means fewer rolls of the dice for something interesting to appear.

Finally, you are also seeing what might be called the "jaded explorer effect". Many of those POIs were found by relatively new explorers: "Wow! An ELW orbiting a water world! I've never seen one of those before! I'm gonna report that to EDSM!". But the circled areas are far from Sol, lack any "tourist sites" like large nebulae and are not on the route to anywhere interesting, so they have only been traversed by seasoned veteran explorers: "Yawn. Another ELW orbiting a water world? That's the third one this month.". For such explorers, a system has to be truly astonishing, a planet truly out there on the fringe of the stellar forge's possibilities, the scenery particularly amazing, to extract a "wow" out of them. I know that, towards the end of my last voyage out, I was suffering from this.

 

[Dr. Nagi]

Thanks for the warnings guys, I'll remember your words.
Anyways, I will head out and look if I can find something. I really don't have anything else to do in ED now until april and it's not too far away.
Also, I'm curious.

 

[Dr. Nagi]

The time has come, I will now make my departure and head out into the unknown(?). I will post updates on my journey here if I find something interesting

 

[Hedy]

I'm just heading back from Beagle Point in a lazy arc. When the starfield begins to thin out in certain areas of space you get a bit panicky and start using the non-scoopable stars as stepping stones and are glad to see any at all.
Keep those materials topped up.

 

[Dr. Nagi]

Update:
Right now I'm 4700 ly away from Colonia, payed a visit to a nebula but it was already discovered, altho with a few interesting things in there.
Did not find anything really notable on my way, just a few waterworlds, an earth like, a brown dwarf within a chain of stellar bodies that has rings, 1 really red gas giant...
So yeah, nothing special ^^"
I'm right between the Festival grounds and the Orion-Cygnus Arm.
Don't know if I will continue my journey tomorrow, propably next weekend.

 

[Dr. Nagi]

Update:
After a long time I finally reached my destination area and began searching for things.

Didn't took me long to find something:

An S-star (on the right) and a K-star (on the left) orbiting each other.
The S one is really damn huge, the first one I actually saw in the game. For a better understanding of it's size, the S-star is a little more than double the distance of the K-star (!) away from my ship in that picture
You think this one is worthy of a POI marker on EDSM?

Also I found a pulsar nearby:

And a really big ringed waterworld with a radius of 14417km

And on my way, a ringed ammonia world orbiting a ringed gas-giant, that I sadly forgot to bookmark so I don't have their location anymore:

And that's it.
Now I shall head back towards the core to be ther ein time for the DWE2 pre-scouting operations that I wanted to take part in and they will be starting in april, soo.... not much time left to go around exploring...

Edit: I noticed that the orbit of the K-star seems to go through the S-star, is that possible? Sadly 1 full orbit is 37 days so I can't confirm that now, might go back here some day to observe that.

 

[iain666]

And on my way, a ringed ammonia world orbiting a ringed gas-giant, that I sadly forgot to bookmark so I don't have their location anymore:

How many Ammonia Worlds orbiting gas-giants did you see? Can't have been many so you should be able to easily track it down by reviewing your travel history from your journals.

You could do this manually with Notepad++ but I would suggest you grab yourself a copy of ED Discovery (download link in my sig) and you'll find it in no time.

 

[Staarlord]

Coincidentally these seem to be the most habitable zones in the galaxy for complex life haha. The idea being that areas, like Sagittarius - A, in the most extreme scenario, will be full of radiation and cosmic rays, and exploding stars that would regularly wipe out life. We exist, for instance, in our sector of the galaxy for a reason. It's calm lol

Moral of the story? Look for sentient life in the darkest areas where systems exist. Well...in real life. Not to say there isn't a freakishly radiation resilient species, but not likely in a star birthing factory.