The Quest To Find Raxxla

Comandante

Comandante
publicstaticvoid said:
The figure enters the bar after 3 years of exploration, handing you a list of steps

  • Gain Elite Status
  • Land on Shinrarta Dezhra A 1
  • Take multiple photographs fixated on various stars in the night sky (Be sure to record your planetary coordinates and timestamp each screenshot.)
  • Come back to the same spots in 5 days time.
  • Photograph the same stars again at the same locations.
  • Stack the Photos you've taken and look for moving objects.
  • Using your friend SohCahToa calculate the distance of the objects that moved and compare them with the objects in the System map.
  • There WILL be 1 object that does not match the star map... It is there you will find what you seek...

As the figure walks away from you he whispers "Remember Parallax!" or was it Raxxla?
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I am mathematically-averse and highly deficient in trigonometry (had to look up how to spell it lol), BUT...

Isn't it the case to be able to do that, the rotation of the planet must always be facing the same location such that you always get the same view? Otherwise the view will change. Plus it also depends on which side of the planet you're on, right?

I just had a look and the system data says A1 is tidally locked - which must mean it's NOT facing the same direction (in relation to the stars, not the central star), right?

Astronomy buffs, mathematical genii, help me out here!
 
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Eckee

Eckee
publicstaticvoid said:
The figure enters the bar after 3 years of exploration, handing you a list of steps

  • Gain Elite Status
  • Land on Shinrarta Dezhra A 1

  • [*]Take multiple photographs fixated on various stars in the night sky (Be sure to record your planetary coordinates and timestamp each screenshot.)
    [*]Come back to the same spots in 5 days time.
    [*]Photograph the same stars again at the same locations.
    [*]Stack the Photos you've taken and look for moving objects.
    [*]Using your friend SohCahToa calculate the distance of the objects that moved and compare them with the objects in the System map.
    [*]There WILL be 1 object that does not match the star map... It is there you will find what you seek...

As the figure walks away from you he whispers "Remember Parallax!" or was it Raxxla?
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lol yeah :D
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Scytale said:
Come on Pa ! It's on the FP of this very thread for years !! I myself asked Macros to include it among the "evidences" about Raxxla. [yesnod]
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What, the DJTruthsayer interview with MB? How far in?
I’ve watched it but I don’t remember that pic with the stars & galaxies annotated
 

voodoochile73

voodoochile73
If the Dark Wheel station is said to be the around the 8th moon of a gas giant, can i ask for others opinion on what is the eigth moon in a system which has twin moons, sry for the crude diagram but where 'O' is the planet x are the moons, so..would the twin moons count as 5a and 5b or 5 and 6.

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Comandante

Comandante
voodoochile73 said:
If the Dark Wheel station is said to be the around the 8th moon of a gas giant, can i ask for others opinion on what is the eigth moon in a system which has twin moons, sry for the crude diagram but where 'O' is the planet x are the moons, so..would the twin moons count as 5a and 5b or 5 and 6.

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I would agree with you - there are 9 moons with 5a and 5b occupying positions 5 and 6 respectively.
 

Florenus

Florenus
Comandante said:
I would agree with you - there are 9 moons with 5a and 5b occupying positions 5 and 6 respectively.
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I would say that if moon number 5 has a moon, then it's his moon, not his planet's.
And I believe there's a notion to call those moons of moons moonmoons. And I'm serious.
 

Lachann

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JtheP said:
Looked at Canonn Discord, he posted a second picture of the Orion constellation that the named stars are part. The only trouble is for been the good star mapping, the planet need to be around sol to be see like that otherwise you can't recognise them. Since they fade (hope isn't because of the sun), is mean that the system is "behind" sol when watching the constellation.
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This being Orion is just a wild guess. However, unlike most other constellations, Orion would be visible and somewhat recognizable from much further away from Sol, since most of it's brightest stars are bright and far away.

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(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)#Stars)

EDIT: However, colors for some of these stars don't match the spectral type, so it's unlikely to be Orion in the end.
 
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Scytale

Banned
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^^^

Jorki Rasalas said:
What, the DJTruthsayer interview with MB? How far in?
I’ve watched it but I don’t remember that pic with the stars & galaxies annotated
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My bad. Thought you were asking about the other 99% of my post ... forget it.
Happy to see you keep a good memory, despite all what you are used to say about ! You got me worried, Pa ! ;)

As I wrote: Canonn Discord.
 
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Lachann

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publicstaticvoid said:
The figure enters the bar after 3 years of exploration, handing you a list of steps

  • Gain Elite Status
  • Land on Shinrarta Dezhra A 1
  • Take multiple photographs fixated on various stars in the night sky (Be sure to record your planetary coordinates and timestamp each screenshot.)
  • Come back to the same spots in 5 days time.
  • Photograph the same stars again at the same locations.
  • Stack the Photos you've taken and look for moving objects.
  • Using your friend SohCahToa calculate the distance of the objects that moved and compare them with the objects in the System map.
  • There WILL be 1 object that does not match the star map... It is there you will find what you seek...

As the figure walks away from you he whispers "Remember Parallax!" or was it Raxxla?
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Wouldn't it be easier to just eyeball it in supercruise?
 

Noobilite

Noobilite
I'm assuming he's hinting that it takes along time to move and you wouldn't notice it in real time. That would logically be one way to hide it. Make it move slowly.

Assuming it can be far away enough to not be visible.. Is there a range of speed and distance that stops short range real time paralax checking from working in ed solar systems. I'm not familiar with the numbers. Figuring that out might give an immediate zone to check in each solar system.
 
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Lachann

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But at supercruise speeds you'll in mere seconds cover more distance than that planet would in those days. Surely that would make any parallax more noticeable?
 

Noobilite

Noobilite
Found something interesting. Probably partial and incorrect. But interesting..

https://www.reddit.com/r/eliteexplorers/comments/3rekys/star_system_name_meanings_sector_subsector/
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=196297

Raxxla!

If you take H and it is 1280... Each value above it is 2x just like below is /2.. this means R would be 1310720. I'm assuming this implies a larger area. This is the starting letter R. But if you take this apart it comes to something a little more interesting. 1310720=1280x1024. This is screen resolution. Coincidence?

Still trying to figure out how to read Raxxla as proper coordinates according to those links.

The galaxy map is something like 99,865: 20,000: 100,000 ly. Assuming coordinates on the map are all 1ly each. That would make Raxxla in a grid of 1,310,720ly cubed... Unless it can be disected. Or it is a distance starting from sol. This would put it far from our galaxy. How far away are our nearest galaxies. Maybe it's pointing to one of the ones we can't get to. And maybe it provides a hint. We know there is stuff outside our reach already with a few known systems.

Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing?
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Lachann said:
This being Orion is just a wild guess. However, unlike most other constellations, Orion would be visible and somewhat recognizable from much further away from Sol, since most of it's brightest stars are bright and far away.


(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)#Stars)

EDIT: However, colors for some of these stars don't match the spectral type, so it's unlikely to be Orion in the end.
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Mmm, haven’t been involved with Canonn much since they moved to Discord.

I think the three galaxies in that pic are more likely to be usable for triangulation, so not worried about the star colours being incorrect. But on Scytale’s pic the names of the upper two galaxies are cropped out, hence my interest in the source. I gather this is your hypothesis with no evidence, but would be interested in what you think are the galaxies.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Scytale said:
^^^



My bad. Thought you were asking about the other 99% of my post ... forget it.
Happy to see you keep a good memory, despite all what you are used to say about ! You got me worried, Pa ! ;)

As I wrote: Canonn Discord.
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Ah, as always that MB “unclue” was highly ambiguous. Clearly we don’t know what we are doing! TDW is a feasible interpretation,and I would have agreed with it if the SD missions hadn’t disappeared. They still don’t seem to have reappeared so my interpretation is that they were deliberately pulled for a reason, & that reason is not generally understood within FD, hence some confused FD responses about their disappearance. This suggests to me they were not the route to Raxxla though something else related to TDW may be.

But at present I prefer my video hypothesis :)
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
I'm not sure that parallax works at all, on the sky box.

I once tried to align Sol and Ross 128, in the skybox of Van Maanen's star. I flew perpendicular to the two stars for about 0.1ly, without noticing any relative movement.

0.1ly may be to short, but the sky box may also be fixed in a system. This should be checked further, before committing significant time to tests.
 
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