Andromeda

[Saool]

Given how crazy bright Barnard's Loop is in Elite Dangerous (when was the last time you stepped out of your house on a night (in winter in the northern hemisphere), looked up and went, "oh look, Barnards Loop"), shouldn't the Andromeda Galaxy look something like this?

EDIT: Given they seem to have M110 with it in the sky box, is it just a case of FDEV not realising how big Andromeda really is in the sky (granted, on reflection this image may have it a bit too big, but not too much).

 

[Kzak]

More visible galaxies would be nice, yes. +1 to this suggestion.

 

[Conch]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Andromeda_Galaxy_(with_h-alpha).jpg

looks pretty spot on

(heavy pic)

 

[her3sy]

I yesssss

Can you do this with an enhancer tool?

 

[Darkfyre99]

Given how crazy bright Barnard's Loop is in Elite Dangerous (when was the last time you stepped out of your house on a night (in winter in the northern hemisphere), looked up and went, "oh look, Barnards Loop"), shouldn't the Andromeda Galaxy look something like this?

Light pollution sucks. These days, if I step outside my home and look up, I'm lucky to see a dozen stars with my unadapted eyes... four of which are in Orion. I have to drive an hour just to get some decent star gazing in, and about three if I want to see the Milky Way galaxy.

https://i.imgur.com/AEfVTQi.png

EDIT: Given they seem to have M110 with it in the sky box, is it just a case of FDEV not realising how big Andromeda really is in the sky (granted, on reflection this image may have it a bit too big, but not too much).

Relevant article is relevant.

 

[Phazon Xenomorph]

Even though in a few billion years we'll collide with Andromeda, it shouldn't be that big yet should it? I mean it's gonna take a long time for it to become that visible yeah?

 

[Tboy2210]

+1 Would love to see that

Also, nice ship you got there

 

[Judz]

It is visible at night now, if you know where to look, and it is nowhere near how big you depict it on that screenshot, or will it be in the time zone of Elite Dangerous. Sorry.

 

[Sentenza]

It is visible at night now, if you know where to look, and it is nowhere near how big you depict it on that screenshot, or will it be in the time zone of Elite Dangerous. Sorry.

Yes it is that big. It's just our eye unable to discern anything beyond the bright core.

 

[Raino]

maybe we can fly to there - sometimes

 

[Bran Tse Mallory]

maybe we can fly to there - sometimes

Given that it is about the furthest away galaxy from us within the Virgo super cluster and there are a lot of smaller galaxy's between us and Romi I doubt we'll be going there any time soon... Heck it would be nice if they included the Canis Majoris overdensity in the game so we can truly look down on the MW!

 

[Saool]

It is visible at night now, if you know where to look, and it is nowhere near how big you depict it on that screenshot, or will it be in the time zone of Elite Dangerous. Sorry.

In that picture, I am guestimating I have it about 8 or 9 moon diameters as seem from earth. Where as it is actually only about 6 diameters. Certainly far larger than it appears in the sky 'if you know where to look' (and I do). But it is so dim that it looks tiny. But you are only seeing the very core. It looks to me like FDEV don't know this and think that core that you can see pretty easily with a pair of binoculars, is in fact the whole galaxy: a common mistake (I don't know, but from your comment I suspect you are making this mistake as well).

This has nothing to with time. It is simply far larger in our sky than we can see. So if we see Barnard's Loop so unnaturally bright, then we should surly see Andromeda looking very close to that?