Amazing Supergiants to visit close to the human bubble

Hatchepsut

Hatchepsut
Greetings CMDRs
I was wondering how many Supergiant stars are within range of the human bubble, particularly close enough to visit in 1 day now that I have upgraded my Cutter to 26Ly jump range.

The 1st one I came up with was of course Betelgeuse at only a few hundred LY distance
..... quite startled to arrive at 2500Ls from the star and it already took up my entire screen.
Imagine my consternation in finding that the 1st Planet with High Metal Content I wanted to scan was only 1780Ls from the star WELL WITHIN fuel scooping range.
Cost me some slight damage and used up 2 heat sinks. But what a sight .... with a Coronal Emission in progress too.

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Slight problem with the next star on my list. VY Canis Mayoris
Its only 1500Ly away ... and it is also the LARGEST HYPERGIANT in our galaxy ..... but no idea how to get to it from my current location.
I would have to pass near COL 70 SECTOR FY-N C21-3 ...(Apparently Thargoid Space) in other words several thousand stars are all locked out with an unknown permit and the long way round adds an additional Thousand Light Years to the trip.
Should I bother ? Are there more interesting places to visit close to home ??

Thanks CMDRs
 
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777Driver

777Driver
List of Super & Hypergiants - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/145037-List-of-largest-known-stars

Have been to VY Canis a few times, my first jaunt was in Gamma, took my first T7 out there on a shakedown cruise, the sight of VY canis in Virtual reality was nothing short of Epic.

The view from the surface of Betelgeuse 2 is stunning, there is also a massive carbon star in the Bubble, it looks like a an insanely huge brown dwarf star, will see if I can track down the name.

There is also two giant stars enroute to the Pleiades Nebula - Hyadum I & Hyadum II, one of the stars has a ringed planet right next to star, again it is absoultely epic in VR, am sure it will look stunning on a normal screen.

Quite a few other sights, am nowhere near my main PC, unfortunately no access to my notes or ingame bookmarks.
 

Hatchepsut

Hatchepsut
Also that funny Clown Smile Nebula you see from the bubble ..... now looks more .... Reptilian .. as you get closer ...
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777Driver said:
List of Super & Hypergiants - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/145037-List-of-largest-known-stars

Have been to VY Canis a few times, my first jaunt was in Gamma, took my first T7 out there on a shakedown cruise, the sight of VY canis in Virtual reality was nothing short of Epic.

The view from the surface of Betelgeuse 2 is stunning, there is also a massive carbon star in the Bubble, it looks like a an insanely huge brown dwarf star, will see if I can track down the name.

There is also two giant stars enroute to the Pleiades Nebula - Hyadum I & Hyadum II, one of the stars has a ringed planet right next to star, again it is absoultely epic in VR, am sure it will look stunning on a normal screen.

Quite a few other sights, am nowhere near my main PC, unfortunately no access to my notes or ingame bookmarks.
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Thanks 777 ...most of those are not exactly NEAR the Bubble....... as you can see I am still a n00b explorer .... and my Cutter is still A rated for combat .... I was just lucky to get an engineer Slot Spin with 50% improvement on my FSD jump range.

Did you go around all the Permit locked stars ?
 
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777Driver

777Driver
Hatchepsut said:
Did you go around all the Permit locked stars ?
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It wasn't locked when I last went. I thought the locked systems are around Barnard's loop? You should be able to make a straight run to VY from the bubble. From your current location the best bet would be to dive or climb a few hundred LY, then head to Canis Majoris.

You could always head to NGC 7822, opposite direction but plenty of giant blue stars set against a stunning nebula backdrop, lots of visuals to get all Psychedelic over :)
 
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Alex Brentnall

Alex Brentnall
Take my advice and go to +200ly on the Z axis (upwards vertically). You will be able to plot fine over the permit locked sector then drop vertically down to your target.
 

kile

K
I died at Betelgeuse once. Curiosity killed Cmdr Pilot Babo, I guess...

[video=youtube;BT8yKT1DKIQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT8yKT1DKIQ[/video]
 
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