Black Hole bonanza!

Kim_S

Kim_S
So on a first real long journey to go scout out some nebula pretty views, and arrived into NGC something or other nebula. About 2500ly out from Eravate.

There are a whole load of systems there called imaginative names like S171 x, all super close together.

Now I have no idea what went down in this nebula millions of years ago, but there are sooooo many black holes around. Some systems even have 3 black holes, orbiting each other. It's really quite incredible. And not to mention all the stars seem to be O class, very large and have a really pretty blue / purple glow that covers the planets in the system. Very worth landing on those you can and just basking in the glow :cool:

Arrived in 1 system about 3 ls from the star, only look behind me and see a black hole 15 ls away. This is one crazy section of the galaxy! I wonder how true to life it is!

And whoever Star Falcon is / was, seems to have scanned pretty much everything in the entire nebula! Must be sitting on 1 huge pile of credits :rolleyes:

Anyway, if you ever feel the desperate need to see some black holes, this is where to go :D
 

Fenris Wolf

Fenris Wolf
Kim_S said:
And whoever Star Falcon is / was, seems to have scanned pretty much everything in the entire nebula! Must be sitting on 1 huge pile of credits :rolleyes:

Anyway, if you ever feel the desperate need to see some black holes, this is where to go :D
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The NGC7822 Nebula is perhaps one of my favourite places, spent some time around there some time ago and Star Falcon had already visited. Although I did get an odd planet/moon or two myself :)

If you want to see all of them, I've got them on this page:

http://www.fenris.co.uk/elite/project/ngc-7822-nebula-s171s/

Enjoy your visit :)
 

Kim_S

Kim_S
Fenris Wolf said:
The NGC7822 Nebula is perhaps one of my favourite places, spent some time around there some time ago and Star Falcon had already visited. Although I did get an odd planet/moon or two myself :)

If you want to see all of them, I've got them on this page:

http://www.fenris.co.uk/elite/project/ngc-7822-nebula-s171s/

Enjoy your visit :)
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Wow really nice summary of everything! Those systems were crazy, 14 stars in some systems, and all those black holes. I had no idea. It was definitely a big crazy nebula.

I spent a day going round as many as I could see, don't think I hit every system but got a lot of them and definitely all the black holes I could find.

Heading out further away to the edge of the galaxy in that direction now, there are other nebula to look at - bubble looks an amazing colour.

And then I'm tempted by the Heart and Soul nebulae. Could be a closet T'Pau fan :D

Quick question - your page mentions the Rift. Where exactly is that located? Or have I missed something really obvious.
 

iain666

iain666
Kim_S said:
imaginative names like S171 x
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The S171 is an abbreviation of Sharpless 171 - Sharpless being the name of an astronomer who published a catalogue of emission nebulae including this one.

The real life Sharpless 171 (albeit in false colour) via NASA's Astronomy Picture Of The Dau:
s171_v1_fernandez50.jpg
 

duckofdeath

duckofdeath
That nebula is indeed one of the most interesting one for explorers. It's got a lot of extreme planets and once we get to land on atmosphere planets there will be a mass exodus going to S171 37 8, just to find out how well a ship can handle 38.9 billion atmospheres.
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Though, I am somewhat suspicious that the planets in that nebula will be adjusted once we get to land on them. That particular planet with a surface gravity over 228G has a density of 500 g/cm³. As a comparison, the densest naturally occurring element, osmium, clocks in at a meagre 22 g/cm³.
 
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Kim_S

Kim_S
Landing on those planets will indeed be fun. I went to this nebula with a friend, and we selected a planet to land on and play about with SRVs for a while.

It had an amazing purple glow from the star, and some great rings. But it was the first time either of us had landed on a high gravity planet - it was a little over 3G.

He didn't notice and hit ground quite hard with some damage. I was still catching up across the galaxy so had this warning, but it was an interesting landing for sure. You could feel the difficulty as soon as orbital cruise ended. The slightest touch on the downward thrusters and you were rushing to the surface.

I did make it gently down, but had a couple of instances where I had to point skyward and full throttle to slow myself down.

Those huge extreme planets will for sure be fun :eek:
 

GunnerBill

GunnerBill
I found myself drawn to that place on my first decent trip when I need that 5 kly for Palin. Turns out it was the wrong direction and my mostly unengineered Anaconda ran out of stars I could get to but I had a blast at S171!
 
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