Ringed neutron star in system map?

[iBR0WNY]

I've seen a couple of screenshots of ringed neutron stars and so far I'm out of luck finding one. I just wanted to ask if anyone knows how they appear in the system map? If the primary star happens to be ringed then of course I will see it as soon as I jump in, but as for secondary neutron stars, does the system map show the rings the same way a ringed brown dwarf would?

I've been zooming in to every non primary neutron with the FSS to see if it's ringed but it would be a huge time saver if I could just look at the system map.

 

[Strangepork]

I've seen a couple of screenshots of ringed neutron stars and so far I'm out of luck finding one. I just wanted to ask if anyone knows how they appear in the system map? If the primary star happens to be ringed then of course I will see it as soon as I jump in, but as for secondary neutron stars, does the system map show the rings the same way a ringed brown dwarf would?

I've been zooming in to every non primary neutron with the FSS to see if it's ringed but it would be a huge time saver if I could just look at the system map.

It's random. Cmdr.

 

[Flagg1900]

When you open the system map it will look something like this:



I discovered this about a month ago, the rings were nicely backlit by a nearby star.

 

[Allitnil]

Primary stars (those on the left of the sysmap and shown in the galmap) can never be ringed, so ignore those.

Secondary stars (ie those that orbit other stars and are *not* on the left of the sysmap) may be.

All stars (primary and secondary) are automatically scanned in the initial FSS honk and any that are ringed will be shown as such in the sysmap.

 

[iBR0WNY]

Thanks guys. It will be much quicker now I can just look at the system map. One day I will find one! Although I'm guessing they're very rare. I did find an ELW orbiting one last week, which is a first for me.

Is neutron farming as lucrative as it used to be? I should be in for a huge payday when I go back. Especially if I risk doing the powerplay grind for 200%.

Those rings look enormous btw!

 

[iain666]

Is neutron farming as lucrative as it used to be? I should be in for a huge payday when I go back. Especially if I risk doing the powerplay grind for 200%.

There're still credits in neutrons and black holes, but you get a lot more for terraformable candidates, especially water worlds but HMCs pay a good chunk too. Even more if you map them too.

 

[iBR0WNY]

Yeah I've been mapping pretty much every water world I've found. Quite a lot of terraformable HMCs too but I hate how monotonous it gets scanning them all in the FSS so I've probably lost a fair amount of potential credits.

 

[mtt9999 [Parabolus]]

AFAIK they can only be ringed in AA-A H class systems

 

[Sapyx]

Ringed Neutrons can only exist where a neutron star is in a "planetary" orbit. To get a neutron star in a planetary orbit, you need a very massive primary star (or set of primary stars). They cannot exist orbiting around another neutron star, as neutron stars are mass-capped at the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff Limit (any more massive than about 2.17 solar masses, and they spontaneously turn into black holes) and that's not enough mass to get a neutron star into a planetary orbit. Systems with heavy black holes and O-class primary stars are the best bet; ringed neutrons around black holes will have black rings (because rings are always coloured by the light of the primary star, not the star the ring itself is orbiting); ringed neutrons around O-class stars are your best bet for finding white rings.

 

[CMDR Twinmerlin]

Systems with a large mass Black Hole often have multiple stars within the system itself. As in Flaggs post and discovery above you can see that the neutron is locked with a secondary star in that system which will of course illuminate the Neutron rings. I have personally discovered 6 ringed neutrons so far, all with massive primary Black Holes and I can confirm that these rings can be, in certain circumstances, illuminated causing examples of bright ring systems.