Far out rings

Exploring a rather ordinary system when confronted by a stray ring but at a bizarre distance from the planet. Having traveled most of the circumference its definitely part of the ringed gas giant but I've never seen rings anywhere close to this distance out at just over 3ls. On doing a lap of the ring I found another one on a different path even further out around 4ls but guessing more elliptical as they get close to meeting at one point. A rare find for me, anyone else seen this?

Oh the system is 16,570ly from SOL but if you're passing..
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Not sure my screenshots will do this justice but here you go
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And to get a sense of scale
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And here are the two rings nearly meeting
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That's pretty spaced out, certainly more than I've ever seen (the system map will give you the distance - inner and outer radii or inner radius and width, can't remember which and not in game right now).
 
just added a pic for that, cant say as I trust those distances, could it be a bug?

EDIT - will take that back, 1 ls equates to 300,000km according to google so the outer rings up to 1,500,000km fits with what I've seen.
 
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Doesn't look implausible. We think we've observed (or at least inferred) a ring system with a radius of ~90,000,000km (although that is in a young system and may well be a proto planetary accretion disc rather than a stable ring system). So why not have some really wide ones in ED.
 
Rep to the OP for finding something unusual and unique!

As for the ring diameter iain666 mentioned... I've seen such size rings in game twice.
 
+rep for weirdness

You should probably head over to the cartographic records thread and see if youve found something record breaking.
 
A brown dwarf has also quite wide ring system:
[video=youtube;bzIXlYlbu_c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzIXlYlbu_c[/video]
 
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