Anyone ever done a list of the unique nebula?

[Alex Brentnall]

So as most explorers know there's a few types of nebula out there, even planetary nebula are subset of the blue-green one, the purple one, the red patterned one, the double purple bubble one.

Has anyone done a list of the unique ones like Fine Ring Nebula, and Messier 78?


I'm wondering if I've missed something somewhere despite my extensive travels... I know theres an unreachable yellow one somewhere that I know I haven't seen a duplicate of that's reachable.
Hopefully I've explained this well enough, I'm a little rushed today so mind is boggled

 

[Qohen Leth]

Like this?

 

[marx]

No, he means a list of the unique nebula models.
Let's see... Should be the following nebulae: Barnard's Loop, Bow-tie, Bubble, Butterfly, Cat's Eye, Crab, Fine Ring, Flame, Hind, Horsehead (and cluster), LBN 623, Lemon Slice (that was the one you were thinking of), Messier 78, NGC 6337 (now with an asteroid base), Orion, Pleiades, Ring, Veil Nebula West. (Veil Nebula East uses one of the generic models.)
I wonder if I missed any though.

 

[Whitmann]

I don't know ALL of those nebulae (though I've visited several) but is the type of nebula like the Osprey Stellar Remnant represented in your list, Marx?

 

[Whitmann]

Or the more easily searchable CSI-61-15434

 

[Alex Brentnall]

No, he means a list of the unique nebula models.
Let's see... Should be the following nebulae: Barnard's Loop, Bow-tie, Bubble, Butterfly, Cat's Eye, Crab, Fine Ring, Flame, Hind, Horsehead (and cluster), LBN 623, Lemon Slice (that was the one you were thinking of), Messier 78, NGC 6337 (now with an asteroid base), Orion, Pleiades, Ring, Veil Nebula West. (Veil Nebula East uses one of the generic models.)
I wonder if I missed any though.

Yes thats exactly what I meant but couldn't put into English well enough

That last bit is also exactly what got me thinking are there any I've just been blissfully unaware of that I should really add on to my next trip?

 

[marx]

I don't know ALL of those nebulae (though I've visited several) but is the type of nebula like the Osprey Stellar Remnant represented in your list, Marx?
Or the more easily searchable CSI-61-15434

Ah, I thought that the Osprey Stellar Remnant was some non-proc. gen. nebula that I didn't know about, but turns out it's a proc. gen. system. (Eos Brai KR-W e1-4, for reference) It looks to me like both that and CSI-61-15434 use the same generic (but rare) planetary nebula model. And yes, many of those I quoted above are planetary nebulae. FD probably went this way because these ones would be much harder to approximate with generic models. (Although to be frank, if you compare the in-game and real life pictures in drkaii's excellent list, you'll see that in a good number of cases the nebulae in Elite are poor approximations of their real counterparts. Even when accounting for the difference in colours and detail that's visible on long exposure photographs.)

Minor bit of history: the Pleiades nebula used to use a generic model too, but its model was updated relatively recently.

Also, one caveat: I might be wrong with any of the above, as their models might be reused elsewhere too. Most of them are pretty distinctive though, and I'm fairly certain I haven't seen them elsewhere.