First little trek into the blue beoynd :D

[TorTorden_VR]

First little trek into the blue beoynd Updated with pictures.

Well, just decided there was too much structure in populated empire and decided to get an ASP, set it up for range and just go.

First stop, the orion nebula or as close as I can get (I know this really isn't far, but it's a first run)

Dunno why but I feel more interested in going rimwards (Hmm Pratchet must have been on to something)

Currently just 280Ly from sol, so not really anywhere yet but the asp has a 32ly range and I would gotten much farther if I wasn't scanning stuff.

Really loving a multiscreen setup with this activity cause that way I have the left screen for browsing, the center for ED and the right and third screen for netflix (currently watching suits,, again...)

 

[Surly_Badger]

Safe travels, CMDR!!!
Remember: throttle zero on jump.

Also, did you bring your fiberglass reinforced tape? If you crack your canopy 1kylie from Sag A* you'll be glad you've got it!

 

[Bacon Sarnie]

Just a note, nebulas are tourist traps, expect to find many discovered by tags as you get close to and arrive at them.
I started off on a nebula tour and then soon found my way littered with already discovered systems, my aim is to get my name out there in the universe so I abandoned the nebula and just started roaming.
I did toy with the idea of going to the rim and back but I came to a few patches where stars were thinning out a little too much, at 1 point I had the choice of 2 stars to jump to, 1 in front of me and 1 behind me, so I changed course.
Still make your own way, don't let me put you off.
I'm heading back in next week will have been out here about 5 weeks then.
Will stay back to check power play out then no doubt head back out, my next trip straight down from SOl to see where the stars end.

 

[Murishani]

Safe journeys CMDR.

Do not be discouraged by seeing "discovered by" tags, scan them anyway, youll still make good money, just keep targeting the second star to the right and jump, jump, jumping eventually youll be in the black with the rest of us and seeing new things.
Bring back pictures!

 

[hoppingdeth]

Orion is a good starting point. Very pretty up there.

Fly safe and remember a happy horn is a honking horn (oooh er...)!!!

 

[TorTorden_VR]

Oh yea, I'm not expecting to see much if any undiscovered, it's a relatively famous nebula barely more than 1000ly from populated space, I'm expecting bus loads of turists with pocket camera's.

I primarily consider this a break-in run on the ASP I'l see what I see not really concerned with making money from exploring, just going since I don't have anything better to do with these 16 million.

I still have my vulture, and enough for insurance almost five times over

395 from sol, these 400k ls trips are really sucking up the minutes.
My current view.

 

[Djinn144]

Good luck CMDR, Exploration is one aspect of the game i have not got around to yet but still look forward to it

 

[hoppingdeth]

I'm about 4k from Sui Guei - my home port, on my way back to cash in after nearly 4 weeks of touring.

See if I can get in safely without being blown up by bored teenagers! Lol!

 

[DiddleDum]

Don't sweat the "discovered by"... you might not get the finder's bonus, but those Earthlikes, Waterworlds, Neutrons, and Black Holes still pay out credits! I loathe the term "tourist", as if it were unfashionable to finally get up close to a nebula and see what'd it'd look like just a few LY from you (or even better, inside it). Nebulas make fine subjects for pictures. If I run into a path already traveled, I still do my scans, still appreciate the beauty, and keep on keeping on. Get out of inhabited space, and you'll soon pick up more first discoveries than you can shake a stick at.

Safe travels, and happy exploring, CMDR!

 

[iain666]

You'll still see lots of undiscovered. Even a well visited nebula 1000ly away, even if the nebula itself is completely tagged, there are so many ways to get there that most of the systems between here and there will still be undiscovered. If you hit a run of discovered systems and care then go economical for a few jumps, or go up or down a system or two before you keep going forward and you'll most likely end up hitting undiscovered after undiscovered until you're almost in the nebula.

 

[TorTorden_VR]

Well came back a couple of days ago but haven't posted anything yet since I'm relatively lazy.
But I have a few pictures, probably not good ones though and they don't come close to doing the sights justice.

As probably mentioned I used an ASP (wholly fecal matters batman this thing has some legs) with the detail and infinite disco scanners, a reasnobly sized scoop (topped out at 617\s I belive)
Three heatsinks and two maintance units, completely overkill for this short trip and had about 33ly jump range.
I feel kinda familiar going into the lonely sections of space, I have played eve seven years and four of those was living in wormhole space


Only got 1% damage from forgetting to throttle down one time, other than that no issues.
The pictures might not be in any order..


Passed through about 60+ systems so this was relatively short run, that was kind of the point as well although for three days work I would have expected more than 2.2 mil in data, about what I can make in less than three hours of trading or bounty hunting, but I did do something new and I even got my name on a brown dwarf

But money isn't the real reason to go, and in truth only problem I had on this trip was how much my headphones start to hurt after a while.
Just need to sort that, and then I'm probably off again, maybe Sag a* but then again everybody and their mother seem to go there.

 

[Whiterose]

Sag A isn't obligatory, but it is a decent waypoint. Approach it, and leave it from a different angle to everybody else and its not that touristy, then head off in any direction.