Are moons, orbiting so fast you can see it with bare eyes, a thing?

[Treptower Park]

I know of Mitterand Hollow. But thats apparently a Stellar Forge anomaly.

Found two tidally locked moons orbiting a gas giant at rather immpressive speed.
Not quite as fast as good ol´ Mitterand but still pretty creepy. They´re in the Traikaae Sector.

Gimme a couple minutes to finish my last leg to Omega Mining so I get my name on them and I´ll disclose the system so you can go see it for yourself

 

[iain666]

They're not common but I've seen a couple of bodies moving at watching-the-ISS-from-the-ground kind of speeds across the sky.

 

[dognosh]

They're not common but I've seen a couple of bodies moving at watching-the-ISS-from-the-ground kind of speeds across the sky.

Give me time and date of your last ISS viewing and I'll tell you your house number and street !!!

 

[GrillMonkey]

I think it was on DW1, one of the waypoints was on a fast moving moon, took ages for me to catch up with it and land on the damn thing!

 

[Nighteyes]

I've seen a planet that was so close to its star you could visibly seebit orbiting. That was in, I think, the Formidine Rift.

 

[Shnyrik]

Are moons, orbiting so fast you can see it with bare eyes, a thing?

Yes they are They are very rare, but still there are some of them in the Galaxy. And some are even not far from our WP2

To be more exact in PW2010 210 the closest potato around brown dwarf A 4 move not as fast as Mitterand Hollow, but still fast enough to see it's movement with naked eye.

Besides, there is a well known point of interest called The Wandering Rock (Praea Euq QD-C b54-0), which is also kind of not very far from WP2.

 

[iain666]

Give me time and date of your last ISS viewing and I'll tell you your house number and street !!!

Unfortunately I neglected to measure RA and dec accurately enough for you to do that

 

[WR3ND]

Science is a rather subjective term in the forge, but in some respects, accounting for tidal forces ripping worlds apart, yes, it might well be a thing. Shame such things aren't extrapolated upon and given an opportunity for us to witness them in fitting terms.

The galactic sim is both amazing and rather lacking. Grumble, bumble.

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If I could ever see something like that live in this game and have the misfortune of interacting with it accordingly, I might lose my... eloquence, in the best possible way.

 

[Sunyavadin]

I've seen stuff moving at similar rates to say, a sunrise or sunset on earth (Something I get a great view of from my windows at home, since I am high enough to see all the way to the sea in one direction, and all the way up the valley in the other), definitely cool watching a ringed planet rise over the horizon from the surface of one of its moons.

 

[Lucius-Darcia]

I know of Mitterand Hollow. But thats apparently a Stellar Forge anomaly.

Found two tidally locked moons orbiting a gas giant at rather immpressive speed.
Not quite as fast as good ol´ Mitterand but still pretty creepy. They´re in the Traikaae Sector.

Gimme a couple minutes to finish my last leg to Omega Mining so I get my name on them and I´ll disclose the system so you can go see it for yourself

Since 3.3 many planets and moons move very fast. This also appears to any Signals appearing in orbits. Good luck to catch a combat zone around a dwarf star. The moment you drop in, it is already 2mil kilometers away again

The reason for that seems for me, that FDev reduced the "lock-zone" massively. The area, where you get binded into the planets orbital axis rather than just standing still in space.
So in the past we haven't seen them moving so fast because we were moving WITH them from a relative perspective seen. Now we stand outside and don't move with the llanets, instead we can see them moving.

Not a great decission in my opinion.

 

[13A]

I found a system where scanning with the FSS was a bit odd as the blobs seemed to be moving. Once I'd finally scanned them I flew out to have a look.

Planet 1 had an orbital period of 1.4 days and I needed to lead with my aim for the DSS as it was moving quite swiftly.

Planet 2 wasn't as fast, but still easily noticable.

Planet 3 was noticeable if I watched for a minute.

I'll try and find the system name later.

 

[Shnyrik]

Planet 1 had an orbital period of 1.4 days and I needed to lead with my aim for the DSS as it was moving quite swiftly

That's interesting, for I've experienced the same with moon A 4 A in PW2010 210, which has orbital period of 1 day.

Will try to check more close moons later, maybe something really has changed in the way "autopilot" works and there are far more such "moving" objects then before 3.3.

 

[Shnyrik]

If I could ever see something like that live in this game

I know, it's not exactly the same thing you were talking about, but still

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[Orvidius]

I know, it's not exactly the same thing you were talking about, but still

I love those enormous ring systems. I've spotted a few visually before (that is, it caught my eye to start scanning the system before looking at the map, in the pre-FSS era). They can sometimes be in the outer orbits of the star system but still be clearly visible from the entry point. It's insane.