Closing the circle

[disorganise]

Been a bit absent from the forum so missed this. Fabulous achievement Cmdr. Pretty awesome map

 

[Komemiute]

Congrats! Unluckily I'm out of Rep, so virtual one...

 

[Edelgard von Rhein]

Many congratulations on a massive achievement! o7

 

[mikekim]

Stunning achievement.. o7

 

[Perditrix]

That is just incredible, and in a Cobra, o7

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Fantastic trip! So glad to see you made it back safely. Welcome home, hero.

 

[Strangepork]

Or, My Cobra is become the Galaxy Serpent

After 618,000 light years, 28,160 systems and nearly 18 months I've gone all the way round.

http://i.imgur.com/qzVO6lW.jpg

Going to hang around the general area for the weekend to do some ELW hunting with Chiggy in the fourth of our irregular series of meeting up every time I've been around a crossing between arms on this trip and then back to the bubble via checking out some of the sights in the Orion Spur that I've not visited yet.

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Pictures from the trip to date, many already shared
[imgur]4Lf9l[/imgur]

Full trip stats to come in a few weeks (or so) when I make it back to the bubble and sell the data.

Brilliant.

 

[ThomasWJames]

I have to ask how often did you "honk", scoop, and jump as opposed to stopping in the system and scanning either some or all of the celestial bodies in that system?
Did you only stop if you saw something that stood out or interesting like ELW or Waterworld, etc.?

 

[Rockyrocket]

And the data is sold.

557 days, 650kly, 29,662 systems, 648,035,442CR

19 Neutron Stars, 20 Black Holes, 154 Earth Like Worlds, 240 Ammonia Worlds, 1,590 Water Worlds.

1 Rat Signal sent, 1 meet up with CMDR Draco in his Imperial Eagle, 4 meet ups with CMDR Chiggy Vonrictofen at each of the confluences between arms.

Tagged my furthest system - in the 65kly club
http://i.imgur.com/0lMyF6x.png

Tagged my first supergiant star
http://i.imgur.com/WgaUipr.png

Tagged my first earth like under a neutron sun
http://i.imgur.com/bEPDE1i.png

Now to get an SRV and go land on a planet. I might just play a different game for a week or two first.

Good job man!.

 

[iain666]

I have to ask how often did you "honk", scoop, and jump as opposed to stopping in the system and scanning either some or all of the celestial bodies in that system?
Did you only stop if you saw something that stood out or interesting like ELW or Waterworld, etc.?

I stopped and looked at the system map in every system and scanned every primary star. If that was already tagged then I scanned at least one body that wasn't if there were any. Plus WW, ELW, AW, MR, likely CFT and anything that looked like it would make a pretty screenshot.

I didn't scan the 1.2m objects my Level 3 Scans stat now implies though!

 

[space voyager]

Is there a reason to scan the star? The rewards are practically zero, time required is long and I just don't see what vital data can one get with a scan of a star. With planets you at least get additional info, but stars are more or less devoid of it.

 

[Watchdog]

Is there a reason to scan the star? The rewards are practically zero, time required is long and I just don't see what vital data can one get with a scan of a star. With planets you at least get additional info, but stars are more or less devoid of it.

With ED Discovery you get the Habitable Zone. Quite useful for hunting terraformable planets.

 

[Redfox]

Is there a reason to scan the star? The rewards are practically zero, time required is long and I just don't see what vital data can one get with a scan of a star. With planets you at least get additional info, but stars are more or less devoid of it.

Legacy.

And yes, the Hab-Zone, too.

 

[iain666]

Is there a reason to scan the star? The rewards are practically zero, time required is long and I just don't see what vital data can one get with a scan of a star. With planets you at least get additional info, but stars are more or less devoid of it.

Habitable zone, I like scrawling my name across the galaxy and the incredible force of habit.

 

[space voyager]

Habitable zone?! Damn, I must have missed this entirely! Thanks, will check it out tonight after the children are asleep.

 

[Jermus]

Or, My Cobra is become the Galaxy Serpent ...

Rocks! (and me living under them ) Congratulations! Marvelous achievement. And I thought that going to and from Beagle Point showed an excellence in patience... this tops it all!

I'm glad to hear the loop is closed.

Fly even further,
CMDR Jermus Karlsen

 

[Kasero]

Congratulations Commander!
What a feat and an epic journey.

 

[madbilly]

CMDR Cruento Mucrone, aka Iain, stellar work! An achievement of galactic proportions!

Er, wasn't this reported on GalNet? Did anyone submit an article? If not I'll have a go, even though (again) I'm quite late picking up on this amazing story.

 

[ThomasWJames]

Hold on a second where does it mention habitable zone? What is it under and what exactly does it say?

 

[Watchdog]

Hold on a second where does it mention habitable zone? What is it under and what exactly does it say?

If you have ED Discovery running and get the star scan result read to you by the artificial voice, it says something like "Habitable zone 707 to 1411 light seconds". My ED Discovery verbosity is set to 3.

If you ALT+TAB and go to ED Discovery, check the history, select the scan of the star and place your mouse cursor on the image of the star below the list of events. A pop-up window will show the habitable zone among other information.

Edit: I took a screenshot for you.

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