No not the fish, did you think this was some sort of HHGTTG fanfic?
KOI Catalogue stars are Kepler Objects of Interest from the set of stars generated by the Kepler Space Telescope launched by NASA in 2009 and that operated until 2018.
Specifically KOI stars are those stars from that catalogue that were identified as having transiting bodies, that is bodies that passed between the star and the observing telescope. A regular slight dimming and brightening of the stars indicate some type of body passing across the face of the star.
Many of the KOI catalogue stars in the ED galaxy have only a single Gas Giant as companion, some have entire solar systems, often with a Gas Giant on a markedly angled orbit from the rest of the planets. My original plan was quite simple, go through the known KOI catalogue stars in EDSM and compare that list to the ones actually in the galaxy, then visit every one of those to add them to the EDSM database.
Alas simple plans are my bane, they all start off simple and get added to as I go, once I see something that needs doing I just can’t help adding it to the plan. So what happened this time? It’s quite simply really, while going through the list of stars in EDSM I suddenly realised that while there star entries for many KOI stars, there were no recorded stars or planets in the entry, they were, apart from the location data and first visitor name, completely blank! Players who know me know this is simply unacceptable, it was indeed something that had to be corrected.
For example EDSM entry with no body information;
So I had a think and consulted Orvidius, he of ED Astrometrics: Maps and Visualizations. His excellent data store and visualisations are invaluable for explorers. He soon ran through his data and popped out the data file of all systems in EDSM that had no primary star listed, so all I needed to do was pull the KOI systems out of that and add them to the systems I already had listed to visit.
There was only the little issue of opening the file, it had nearly 20 million systems listed! I eventually resorted to that universal tool that could do almost everything, Notepad++ and extracted the systems I needed, this added 533 systems, not to bad. Then I noticed the listing of ordinary Kepler stars with no body data and decided since I was basically going past them I may as well fix them up, adding another 96 systems. In the end the total number of systems I visited in the KOI/Kepler collection was 1,453, these systems are now fully populated in the EDSM database.
There were a number of systems I was unable to reach, the KOI survey actually scanned many stars outside the boundary of the ED galaxy, the surveyed segment of sky climbing at an angle out of the plane of the galaxy ending in a group of stars higher above the galaxy than Rackham’s Peak.
The 46 Unreachable KOI catalogue stars (note sorted alphabetically, the catalogue number of the stars seems to bear no relationship to distance from Sol or height above the galactic plane.
So that's done. The total number of stars I actually visited is far higher than the total above of course because some of them were quite far apart, and of course I also have a habit of wandering off to check interesting things, but it's finally finished. The only item I haven't ticked off is the Kepler catalogue stars that aren't yet in the EDSM database, but they will be far fewer in number than the KOI catalogue stars. I will get around to them eventually unless someone else gets to them first, if anyone feels like trying to get to the KOI stars or do the Kepler stars feel free, I shall head off for some deeper space exploration Once I have refueled my carrier.
Fly safe o7
Edit: Sorry the table is rubbish, you can't manually adjust the size before posting and word wrap doesn't seem to be a thing, I will try and fix it! Ok it's better, not perfect but this is HTML so that's to be expected!
KOI Catalogue stars are Kepler Objects of Interest from the set of stars generated by the Kepler Space Telescope launched by NASA in 2009 and that operated until 2018.
Specifically KOI stars are those stars from that catalogue that were identified as having transiting bodies, that is bodies that passed between the star and the observing telescope. A regular slight dimming and brightening of the stars indicate some type of body passing across the face of the star.
Many of the KOI catalogue stars in the ED galaxy have only a single Gas Giant as companion, some have entire solar systems, often with a Gas Giant on a markedly angled orbit from the rest of the planets. My original plan was quite simple, go through the known KOI catalogue stars in EDSM and compare that list to the ones actually in the galaxy, then visit every one of those to add them to the EDSM database.
Alas simple plans are my bane, they all start off simple and get added to as I go, once I see something that needs doing I just can’t help adding it to the plan. So what happened this time? It’s quite simply really, while going through the list of stars in EDSM I suddenly realised that while there star entries for many KOI stars, there were no recorded stars or planets in the entry, they were, apart from the location data and first visitor name, completely blank! Players who know me know this is simply unacceptable, it was indeed something that had to be corrected.
For example EDSM entry with no body information;
So I had a think and consulted Orvidius, he of ED Astrometrics: Maps and Visualizations. His excellent data store and visualisations are invaluable for explorers. He soon ran through his data and popped out the data file of all systems in EDSM that had no primary star listed, so all I needed to do was pull the KOI systems out of that and add them to the systems I already had listed to visit.
There was only the little issue of opening the file, it had nearly 20 million systems listed! I eventually resorted to that universal tool that could do almost everything, Notepad++ and extracted the systems I needed, this added 533 systems, not to bad. Then I noticed the listing of ordinary Kepler stars with no body data and decided since I was basically going past them I may as well fix them up, adding another 96 systems. In the end the total number of systems I visited in the KOI/Kepler collection was 1,453, these systems are now fully populated in the EDSM database.
There were a number of systems I was unable to reach, the KOI survey actually scanned many stars outside the boundary of the ED galaxy, the surveyed segment of sky climbing at an angle out of the plane of the galaxy ending in a group of stars higher above the galaxy than Rackham’s Peak.
The 46 Unreachable KOI catalogue stars (note sorted alphabetically, the catalogue number of the stars seems to bear no relationship to distance from Sol or height above the galactic plane.
| KOI 89 | KOI 625 | KOI 972 – Furthest from the bubble, 45,386ly. To high to be focused on in the galmap. | KOI 1066 – up near Rackhams Peak closer to the core. | KOI 1176 |
| KOI 1452 | KOI 1622 | KOI 1894 | KOI 2042 | KOI 2198 |
| KOI 2222 | KOI 2272 | KOI 2364 | KOI 2682 | KOI 2704 |
| KOI 2715 | KOI 3119 | KOI 3138 | KOI 3242 – Highest above the galactic plane. can’t be focused on in the galmap. | KOI 3581 |
| KOI 3583 | KOI 3611 | KOI 3647 | KOI 3649 – The lowest, the most likely target to reach. | KOI 3690 |
| KOI 3652 | KOI 3735 | KOI 3738 | KOI 3767 | KOI 3783 |
| KOI 3830 | KOI 3855 | KOI 4021 | KOI 4066 | KOI 4189 |
| KOI 4290 | KOI 4363 | KOI 4377 | KOI 4390 | KOI 5052 |
| KOI 5461 | KOI 5480 | KOI 5485 | KOI 5517 | KOI 5533 |
| KOI 5718 |
So that's done. The total number of stars I actually visited is far higher than the total above of course because some of them were quite far apart, and of course I also have a habit of wandering off to check interesting things, but it's finally finished. The only item I haven't ticked off is the Kepler catalogue stars that aren't yet in the EDSM database, but they will be far fewer in number than the KOI catalogue stars. I will get around to them eventually unless someone else gets to them first, if anyone feels like trying to get to the KOI stars or do the Kepler stars feel free, I shall head off for some deeper space exploration Once I have refueled my carrier.
Fly safe o7
Edit: Sorry the table is rubbish, you can't manually adjust the size before posting and word wrap doesn't seem to be a thing, I will try and fix it! Ok it's better, not perfect but this is HTML so that's to be expected!
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