Largest Rings i've seen (Water Giant )
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Where are the moons located?
Might provide a nice view
Might provide a nice view
8.6 million kilometer radius?
Holy Moly Annie Oly.
Holy Moly Annie Oly.
Is there actually a planet in the middle? I can't see from that distance...
The largest currently known ring around a planet is 45,2 MKm, but, unfortunately it is too dark and sparse to be visible.
The largest ring I've seen (I mean not just on the map
) is around a substar in Wepae AA-A h22 (Mors et Vitae):
As for the planetary rings, I guess the biggest confirmed visible is now in Syrivai UY-R d4-67 (aka The Great Wall of Syrivai)
around a gas giant #3.
Thanks to cmdr. Orvidius and his work with EDSM database, I'm now preparing a list of about 300 planetary rings larger than 20MKm and trying to find a way to check whether they are visible or not, so, I guess, more can be found
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I do have that system on my list
And nope, i try to check them all, however there were some problems (If I do remember that correctly) with false positive results, and so there is less data about ringed secondary stars with shepherd moons, than about ringed planets.I do have that system on my list
One of the curious things about ringed stars is that the rings can't be scanned, probably because stars can't be scanned and scanning of the rings is connected to the planet in question. Shepard moons are easier to spot now with the Orrery, but I generally don't report them unless the outer ring is visible, and oit's easy enough to spot them even without the Orrery by checing the gap between the inner and outer rings. Is there a list for bodies with three rings? I think they may actually be rarer than large rings.
I guess so. Though kind of the same problem exists for the large planetary rings and I haven't seen stellar rings with inner radius of less than a few MKm.
Um, never thought about that
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I guess so. Though kind of the same problem exists for the large planetary rings and I haven't seen stellar rings with inner radius of less than a few MKm.
Um, ever thought about that
Did you check the stats above? Three rings, inner radius of the smallest 98k klm, although I suspect that may still be outside the range of the surface scanner probes if it was planet. I think I can recall discovering three or four bodies with three rings in my travels.
I, actually, never paid much attention to the quantity of rings. As I'm specifically interested in looking for shepherd moons, I might be kind of used to finding "triple" rings, for in ED shepherd moons are very often in gaps between B and C rings. It may actually be true, that for "regular" ringed planets having C ring may be rare.
Of what I am almost sure -- I've never seen D and further rings in ED
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What is klm?
Kilo Light Minute?
Surely you don't measure planetary rings as multiples Royal Dutch Airlines (as some yanks seem to measure potholes as multiples of washing machines)...
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Great find!
I love large rings. And rings in general. Was hunting large and/or interesting rings for quite some time. Even created a dedicated picture album. The good old days
Source: https://imgur.com/a/fjOm8
Some of these rings were rather large too, up to about 32 000 000km, if i remember correctly
As every ringed body has A ring, that gives us 0,39%. Which is actually pretty rare
UPD. And C-rings actually turn out to be way more rare than ELWs.
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So that's my new mission then, find a D ring!
Probably be in the same place as Raxxla so I can complete two objectives at the same time.
In my experience, C rings are always abnormally large in radius (into the millions of Km). They're not always visible, however, you can get a decent idea from the system map, and the mass of the ring itself. It the mass is too low, i assume the game considers it too sparse to render (and from my limited testing, it doesn't render a collision box on it either).