Either way without a direct hint or pure dumb luck, the mystery will stay a mystery forever.
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Formidine Rift... what is it?
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Either way without a direct hint or pure dumb luck, the mystery will stay a mystery forever.
RA and DEC translates in to a line from Sol and the apprximate distance of 11000ly.
If it crosses the RR line, it could be interesting.
Edit: it is interesting that Kahina visited London on spring equinox. That is the time and place where RA and DEC can be measured directly, without recalcalculation.
I'm lost...
Hope you guys know what you're talking about. I do eagerly await the results though! 
Erm, I keep hearing mention of the RR line... yet I can't seem to find any post that says what that is. I thought it might appear on Erimus' map thread, but didn't even see mention there.
Could someone explain this for me?
Could someone explain this for me?
Very first page of this post...#3 reply to be exact.
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Reorte - Riedquat line. Follow that course.
Punched through from Soul Nebula to NGC 1491. Void looks empty when you look at the map and route planner doesn't like it, but still enough stars to navigate. Will move west towards the R/R line. So far only seen procedural generated system names.
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Sounds like exploring any systems in a 10900-11100LY bubble around sol ( similar to the Unknown artifact mystery around maia) might be a good place to start. THAT still presents a rather large needle haystack thing but is a starting point if this theory holds up
I got excited when I found a salvageable wreck 5.5kly from Sol on the RR line. I'd never bothered to drop into one before, so I did. I found a wrecked Imperial ship and a small survey cache. I thought I might have found something related to the rift, but then I read the forums and found that the wrecks can spawn nearly twice that far out. Bummer, I though I was on to something!
Opinions on whether I should cut it loose, or hang on to it (illegal salvage)?
Opinions on whether I should cut it loose, or hang on to it (illegal salvage)?
dynamicbob
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unless finding stuff taht far out has some hidden background sim or activity in deep space systems ie taking loot spawns more complex signal sources for the next guy who visits id take it back just for lols
Here is a nice picture that explains Right Ascension and Declination relative to Earth's position:
It's from this page: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/coordinates.html
As you can see, the 'zero point' is the Vernal Equinox (21th of March).
From Frank Heinrich's page, http://ed.frank-heinrich.net/index.php?title=Galnet_Collection_Senator_Kahina, we can see that Lady Kahina was on earth from the 20th of March to 2nd of April.
That time Was spent in Cambridge and London.
London is on the zero meridian, making astronomical observations easier, because you don't have to offset for time.
Cambridge is the home of a Radio Observatory, that was the first to map several distant radio sources. Among them Cassiopeia A.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Michelson_Interferometer
While Cassiopeia A is now the strongest radio source outside the solar system, it will fade to nothing in a few hundred years (from 2016). By the time of ED it will no longer be observable from Earth. Technically we should still be able to observe/hear it if we went 1300ly from Earth in the opposite direction. I doubt that works in-game.
Cas A has most likely become a neutron star, that is very hard to spot from distance. Approximate distance is 10-11 kly,
If we can find another star with the same RA and DEC between Sol and Cas A, it can be used to hold course, by checking our six. This would even work with a star on the opposite side of Sol.
It's from this page: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/coordinates.html
As you can see, the 'zero point' is the Vernal Equinox (21th of March).
From Frank Heinrich's page, http://ed.frank-heinrich.net/index.php?title=Galnet_Collection_Senator_Kahina, we can see that Lady Kahina was on earth from the 20th of March to 2nd of April.
That time Was spent in Cambridge and London.
London is on the zero meridian, making astronomical observations easier, because you don't have to offset for time.
Cambridge is the home of a Radio Observatory, that was the first to map several distant radio sources. Among them Cassiopeia A.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Michelson_Interferometer
While Cassiopeia A is now the strongest radio source outside the solar system, it will fade to nothing in a few hundred years (from 2016). By the time of ED it will no longer be observable from Earth. Technically we should still be able to observe/hear it if we went 1300ly from Earth in the opposite direction. I doubt that works in-game.
Cas A has most likely become a neutron star, that is very hard to spot from distance. Approximate distance is 10-11 kly,
If we can find another star with the same RA and DEC between Sol and Cas A, it can be used to hold course, by checking our six. This would even work with a star on the opposite side of Sol.
Here is a nice picture that explains Right Ascension and Declination relative to Earth's position:
View attachment 108257
It's from this page: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/coordinates.html
As you can see, the 'zero point' is the Vernal Equinox (21th of March).
From Frank Heinrich's page, http://ed.frank-heinrich.net/index.php?title=Galnet_Collection_Senator_Kahina, we can see that Lady Kahina was on earth from the 20th of March to 2nd of April.
That time Was spent in Cambridge and London.
London is on the zero meridian, making astronomical observations easier, because you don't have to offset for time.
Cambridge is the home of a Radio Observatory, that was the first to map several distant radio sources. Among them Cassiopeia A.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Michelson_Interferometer
While Cassiopeia A is now the strongest radio source outside the solar system, it will fade to nothing in a few hundred years (from 2016). By the time of ED it will no longer be observable from Earth. Technically we should still be able to observe/hear it if we went 1300ly from Earth in the opposite direction. I doubt that works in-game.
Cas A has most likely become a neutron star, that is very hard to spot from distance. Approximate distance is 10-11 kly,
If we can find another star with the same RA and DEC between Sol and Cas A, it can be used to hold course, by checking our six. This would even work with a star on the opposite side of Sol.
Now that is very interesting. And seems like it just can't be a coincidence.
Thank you very much for this information! Maybe it is a coincidence, but still worth to follow! Sadly I can't give you more rep...Here is a nice picture that explains Right Ascension and Declination relative to Earth's position:
View attachment 108257
It's from this page: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/coordinates.html
As you can see, the 'zero point' is the Vernal Equinox (21th of March).
From Frank Heinrich's page, http://ed.frank-heinrich.net/index.php?title=Galnet_Collection_Senator_Kahina, we can see that Lady Kahina was on earth from the 20th of March to 2nd of April.
That time Was spent in Cambridge and London.
London is on the zero meridian, making astronomical observations easier, because you don't have to offset for time.
Cambridge is the home of a Radio Observatory, that was the first to map several distant radio sources. Among them Cassiopeia A.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Michelson_Interferometer
While Cassiopeia A is now the strongest radio source outside the solar system, it will fade to nothing in a few hundred years (from 2016). By the time of ED it will no longer be observable from Earth. Technically we should still be able to observe/hear it if we went 1300ly from Earth in the opposite direction. I doubt that works in-game.
Cas A has most likely become a neutron star, that is very hard to spot from distance. Approximate distance is 10-11 kly,
If we can find another star with the same RA and DEC between Sol and Cas A, it can be used to hold course, by checking our six. This would even work with a star on the opposite side of Sol.
By the way. Just reached the bridge and will start now to cross the Rift. I didn't realize until now how wide it is! It's probably going to take me 4-5 days to reach the other end of the RR line... That is if I don't have to circumvent the badlands. I will try to cross them, and I hope that doesn't turn out to be an error. Doubt the rats will want to rescue me 15.000ly's out...
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