***To make for an easier browsing, I didn't tag any picture as spoil. Scroll down at your own risk!***
***EDIT 2: following suggestion, I wrapped them as spoil to ease on data plans***
Wanting to get some items off my bucket list of places to visit in the Galaxy, I arranged a Galactic Tour to cover key Points Of Interest, collect data, and bring it back home to my independent faction.
I could tell you lots, and lots about it...but you'll be bored by the time I make it to the middle! So I decided to collect the best 30 shots I have taken so far, and keep updating as I go.
Before that, here are the expedition goals and dates! Thanks for watching the pics and let me know your comments!
DEPARTED:
SANTJALAN (Martinez City) - April 12th, 3301
I-Statue Of Liberty Nebula - Reached: April 19th
II-Eta Carinae System - Reached: April 21th
III-NGC 3293 Nebula - Reached: April 23th
IV-Eta Carina Nebula - Reached: April 25th
V-Greae Phio - En Route
VI-Sagittarius A*
VII-Neutron Field
VIII-Eagle Nebula
1-Martinez City Scientific Outpost
The Orinoco lies on Pad #3 as the Flight Director runs the final checklist just minutes before departure.
2- Last Homely Home
Mawson Port in the system HIP 65921 is one of the northern systems in the civilized bubble. Used for many explorer's as LHH before venturing out to the void, this mining outpost is close to a very nice metallic planet and you can see a ringed giant in the distance, next to it.
3- The Pad at Mawson Port
I was sipping some coffee in the lounge, waiting for paperwork and the last load of food to be loaded, when I caught the planet "rising" in the background. Couldn't help it! I will not see a port again in a long, long time.
4.- Transit
One of my favorite things to do is to locate a planet with a tight orbit and watch it pass in front of their star.
5- A Ringed Ammonia World
Any ringed world is a favorite!
6-Yellow
High Metal content, with clouds.
7- Orange
Another HiMet with clouds.
8- White and Yellow Cheeses
If they were real cheeses, these two moons would have parted ways due to low gravity force to keep them together.
9-Ringed Gas Giant
Note the remote ringed planet in the background.
10-From One Star to Another
A binary system.
11-Twin Shepherds
Shepherd moons dancing together, keep these rings in tight formation around their host giant planet.
12-T-Tauri
Young proto stars, they normally spin so fast!!
13- Blinding Eta Carinae
Dubbed "The Brightest Star in the Milky Way", this binary system millions times brighter than the Sun, is actually the brightest in the vicinity of Earth and is quickly approaching its Supernova dead.
14-Eta Carinae Beauty
Very elegant and beautiful system, the main star is 120 Sun Masses, and its companion is 30 Sun Masses. There is also one planet in the in-game system.
15-NGC 3293
This open cluster is spotted across this region. Is composed by roughly 92 stars of the O,B and A classes. Here, spotted at about 250 ly distance.
16-Rainbow
A G, Red Dwarf, Brown Dwarf, NGC 3293 and the Orinoco in the foreground.
17-Holy Trinity
One A and two F's stars locked in an eternal dance.
18-White
Icy cold world, with matching ring. In the background, Eta Carinae Nebula, not too far in the distance.
19-A Pioneer's Footprint
It is always glad to find the trail of one of the greatest inspiration for all explorers in the galaxy. Of course, he didn't leave a single moon unexplored, so I moved on!
20-Eta Carina Nebula
Four times as big as Orion Nebula, this large one comprises the open clusters nearby, including NGC 3293. It was a sea of red dwarfs leading to it.
21-Basking in Real Glory
The Orinoco takes a refueling dive on this real Emperor of the skies.
22-Ringed Water
A peculiar world that managed to be completely covered in water, with a rocky set of rings around it.
23-The Wolf, The Shepherd, The Herd and The Farmer
24-A Ringed Moon
Always fascinating, this is a rocky moon, with icy rings.
25-Peek A Boo!
A stars seems to be peeking from behind its companion in this binary system.
26-Blue
Adding to the palette of colors, this picture shows the Orinoco as it emerges from a Water World.
27-Magnitude
Galaxy, Star, Planet, Moon and Vessel picturing the difference of time and space, from small to great.
28-The Jedi Planet
Took this selfie of a HiMet while aligning it with the Milky Way in the background. This is the results: a planet with a double laser sabre!
29- 2nd Ammonia World Ringed
The smell might not be good at all, but they strike me as absolutely beautiful, complex and sophisticated worlds. Add rings and they are just stunning!
30- Hope & Perseverance
After 19 days and 11,000 light years of travel, I finally found the Prima Donna of this trip: An Earth Like Planet. Still unregistered. its been the hardest and longest search for an ELP I had yet endured in my explorations. I can't but feel moved every time I find one of these. I think of Earth, so far from here now, and I wonder "When did it all go wrong?" Being out here, in the lookout for ELP's, one gets to understand that these are far in between, very rare indeed, and that our Earth is a jewel of the Universe, not a common asset. Statistics point out that there are millions of "Earths" in the Milky Way but in a Galaxy that count stars in billions, that doesn't translate in abundance...I hope we understand this before is too late in our own history as species.
***EDIT 2: following suggestion, I wrapped them as spoil to ease on data plans***
Wanting to get some items off my bucket list of places to visit in the Galaxy, I arranged a Galactic Tour to cover key Points Of Interest, collect data, and bring it back home to my independent faction.
I could tell you lots, and lots about it...but you'll be bored by the time I make it to the middle! So I decided to collect the best 30 shots I have taken so far, and keep updating as I go.
Before that, here are the expedition goals and dates! Thanks for watching the pics and let me know your comments!
DEPARTED:
SANTJALAN (Martinez City) - April 12th, 3301
I-Statue Of Liberty Nebula - Reached: April 19th
II-Eta Carinae System - Reached: April 21th
III-NGC 3293 Nebula - Reached: April 23th
IV-Eta Carina Nebula - Reached: April 25th
V-Greae Phio - En Route
VI-Sagittarius A*
VII-Neutron Field
VIII-Eagle Nebula
1-Martinez City Scientific Outpost
2- Last Homely Home
3- The Pad at Mawson Port
4.- Transit
5- A Ringed Ammonia World
6-Yellow
7- Orange
8- White and Yellow Cheeses
9-Ringed Gas Giant
10-From One Star to Another
11-Twin Shepherds
12-T-Tauri
13- Blinding Eta Carinae
14-Eta Carinae Beauty
15-NGC 3293
16-Rainbow
17-Holy Trinity
18-White
19-A Pioneer's Footprint
20-Eta Carina Nebula
21-Basking in Real Glory
22-Ringed Water
23-The Wolf, The Shepherd, The Herd and The Farmer
24-A Ringed Moon
25-Peek A Boo!
26-Blue
27-Magnitude
28-The Jedi Planet
29- 2nd Ammonia World Ringed
30- Hope & Perseverance
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