Newcomer / Intro Binary system distances!

[Hump Johnson]

Some of the binary system distances are crazy I just jumped into one of course my target station was in orbit around the smaller companion 205,000 ls away what ever an ls is???? top speed reached 693 C whatever a C is surely you should be able to choose which companion star you want to jump to.

 

[DaveB]

Some of the binary system distances are crazy I just jumped into one of course my target station was in orbit around the smaller companion 205,000 ls away what ever an ls is???? top speed reached 693 C whatever a C is surely you should be able to choose which companion star you want to jump to.

c == speed of light in vacuum. approx 3,000,0000 km/sec
ls = "light second" or approx 3,000,000 km

therefore at 693c you are covering 693ls every second.

Unfortunately the jump drive always targets the most massive body in the system.

 

[Hump Johnson]

c == speed of light in vacuum. approx 3,000,0000 km/sec
ls = "light second" or approx 3,000,000 km

therefore at 693c you are covering 693ls every second.

Unfortunately the jump drive always targets the most massive body in the system.

oh hang on c as in MC squared .................Doh! Thanks for the clarification Dave. yeah I had read on another post about the fsd dropping you at the most massive body.

 

[NeonKnight]

OK, few things you need to know that can help out with real quick no need for paper & pen calculations.

A LS or Light Second is 299 792.458 kilometers not the 3 million DaveB quoted above

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-second

a Light Year is of course that HUGE distance light travels in 1 standard year of 365 days or 9.4605284 × 10¹² meters.

Finally, on the SYSTEM MAP, KNOWN binary stars will have their orbits listed around their parent star, but this will be listed in AUs or Astronomical Units. An AU is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun (the REAL sun), and is a distance of 149 597 871 kilometers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit

Now the nice stuff of all of this, is the math is really simple.

We Know a LS is 299 792.458 kilometers, and we know an AU is 149 597 871 kilometers. So, 1 AU is ( AU distance divided by Light Second Distance) exactly 499.0047848368487 LS, or for real rough but simple Head Calculations, we can just call it 500 LS.

So, if you look at a system map, and a Star has an orbit of 40 AU you can then quickly see that 40 x 500 = 20,000 LS, and if the planet the station orbits is another 30 AU from it's star, well that is 15,000 LS, together that could mean a distance of around 65,000 LS to travel. better get a travel drink!

 

[hitkill1]

Well according the wiki the Max supercruise speed is 2001c. This speed take 57 min to reach.
i only got up to around 1000C.

Also if you search the forum you can find the exact reason for why they made this design decision.
Not that i mind.

 

[Hump Johnson]

OK, few things you need to learn.

A LS or Light Second is 299 792.458 kilometers not the 3 million DaveB quoted above

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-second

a Light Year is of course that HUGE distance light travels in 1 standard year of 365 days or 9.4605284 × 10¹² meters.

Finally, on the SYSTEM MAP, KNOWN binary stars will have their orbits listed around their parent star, but this will be listed in AUs or Astronomical Units. An AU is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun (the REAL sun), and is a distance of 149 597 871 kilometers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit

Now the nice stuff of all of this, is the math is really simple.

We Know a LS is 299 792.458 kilometers, and we know an AU is 149 597 871 kilometers. So, 1 AU is ( AU distance divided by Light Second Distance) exactly 499.0047848368487 LS, or for real rough but simple Head Calculations, we can just call it 500 LS.

So, if you look at a system map, and a Star has an orbit of 40 AU you can then quickly see that 40 x 500 = 20,000 LS, and if the planet the station orbits is another 30 AU from it's star, well that is 15,000 LS, together that could mean a distance of around 65,000 LS to travel. better get a travel drink!

hmm well no offence and don't take this the wrong way but did you really need the "need to learn bit"! a light year and an AU you say I'll have to remember that the next time I'm out with the star party. but thanks for the math(s).

 

[DaveB]

OK, few things you need to know that can help out with real quick no need for paper & pen calculations.

A LS or Light Second is 299 792.458 kilometers not the 3 million DaveB quoted above ...

*puts hand up and admits to being one SI multiple off* I blame the distraction from reading forums in flight.

 

[NeonKnight]

hmm well no offence and don't take this the wrong way but did you really need the "need to learn bit"! a light year and an AU you say I'll have to remember that the next time I'm out with the star party. but thanks for the math(s).

none taken as I did hem and haw about how to phrase it. And I do see you qutoed my message before i had edited it make it sound less condescending.

But the main thing to remember is an AU is roughly 500 LS so when you look at the System Map you can gauge if it is a trip worth making.

 

[Hump Johnson]

Thanks again NK is it the semi major axis distance I'm looking at? well I cant see another one listed on the nav map because I just looked at the system I was in and the companion star is listed as semi major axis 278 AU, now a calculator says this gives me around 139,000Ls but I know that the ship comp had it at around 205,000Ls , so must be ED that's getting its self muddled unless I'm doing something wrong , which is more likely.

 

[NeonKnight]

Thanks again NK is it the semi major axis distance I'm looking at? well I cant see another one listed on the nav map because I just looked at the system I was in and the companion star is listed as semi major axis 278 AU, now a calculator says this gives me around 139,000Ls but I know that the ship comp had it at around 205,000Ls , so must be ED that's getting its self muddled unless I'm doing something wrong , which is more likely.

yes. But was the distance to the planet with the station? That is added to the ultimate distance.