Glorious HIPs - 3306
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Finishing slice 33 will also take more time. Still have to make the return trip from about 15klys and tag the remaining 30 or so HIPs, among other activities. It will take at least a couple more weeks. In the meantime, here's some of the mildly interesing findings from slice 33:
HIP 45445
HIP 48712 and the seven HRGGs
A pair of close orbiting Class 3 GGs
Triplets at HD 85537
An ringed/non-ringed lava pair spinning around HIP 30783
A first for me - A ringed Class 3 GG orbiting a Y with a huge ring:
A skinny-ringed GG around HIP 33387. The system also features a neutron and a black hole orbiting a huge B.
HD 45843 - which proved very lucrative, with no less than five TWWs.
An M orbiting a B at HD 66306
And finally, Steve arriving to pick me up in the maxed out conda I had to build to jump into HD 51061, a system where the carrier just wouldn't go blindly.
Thank you Jackie for the opportunity. I'm really enjoying the trip so far.
HIP 45445
HIP 48712 and the seven HRGGs
A pair of close orbiting Class 3 GGs
Triplets at HD 85537
An ringed/non-ringed lava pair spinning around HIP 30783
A first for me - A ringed Class 3 GG orbiting a Y with a huge ring:
A skinny-ringed GG around HIP 33387. The system also features a neutron and a black hole orbiting a huge B.
HD 45843 - which proved very lucrative, with no less than five TWWs.
An M orbiting a B at HD 66306
And finally, Steve arriving to pick me up in the maxed out conda I had to build to jump into HD 51061, a system where the carrier just wouldn't go blindly.
Thank you Jackie for the opportunity. I'm really enjoying the trip so far.
There's always one right. I have a big grouping of HIP's I am working through that suddenly stops and a few individual stars making a big line out to the edge of the galaxy the furthest bring 19kly from where I am. I will take the FC with no name to the far edge of the group and set out alone in my Phantom to get the last few, the Tritium to get there can be saved for more useful tasks and it would be no faster anyway!
Indeed. Fate would have it that the furthest star in slice 33 was a late discovery, is only reachable by carrier (by a tiny margin too) and is still some 5kly away. That and some gross fuel miscalculations means Steve will require another 3-4k tons of mined fuel to complete the slice. Luckily I parked it in a Tri2 ring so when I'm ready to resume mining it will at least be manageable.
What software are you using Maolagin?
I've also been rescuing stranded peeps from stations, although I'm back out in the black now. I have a Type 7 which I was trying to fit out as an explorer but was never really satisfied with so I packed it full of bargain-basement passenger cabins and found it a surprisingly good rescue boat - nice all round view especially downwards for dodging floating wreckage.
I saw a lot of T7's, too. Wasnt sure if it was new CMDR's who couldn't afford a Big 3 or if it was wily old timers who knew something that I didnt. Now I know.I've also been rescuing stranded peeps from stations, although I'm back out in the black now. I have a Type 7 which I was trying to fit out as an explorer but was never really satisfied with so I packed it full of bargain-basement passenger cabins and found it a surprisingly good rescue boat - nice all round view especially downwards for dodging floating wreckage.
Ah, I was wondering if anyone would ask about that.
So the basic tool I'm using is the distance listing tool maintained by the mining folks. The nice features there are the ability to order the list either by distance or as a route (it uses the basic "greedy nearest neighbor" algorithm, so the route it generates is a reasonable starting point but not good enough that you'd just blindly follow it), and the ability to drop the route into a ED3D.js map for visualization. Now since it pulls coordinates from EDSM, I can't just drop a bunch of HIP XYZ names into it that EDSM doesn't know about yet. The way I got around that is that when I did the initial pass reconciling the list with the in-game map, I also used Spansh's nearest system search to find the closest star that EDSM does know about, and noted that in my copy of the spreadsheet. I then have the spreadsheet generate a column of strings that look like
Praea Euq IR-E b15-0 | HD 112207, or blank if I've marked that row as already visited on my route, already cataloged in EDSM, or unreachable. That way the site gives me a route connecting those nearest star waypoints, and each one has a comment attached with the name of the star I'm actually visiting, which is what I copy-paste into the gapmap as my next route target.Oh yes, the T7 is pretty popular for station rescue duty. I was just using one for the same thing last night. Excellent visibility from the cockpit, much more maneuverable than any of the big ships, and cheap enough that just ignoring the heat damage and repairing at the rescue ship after each run doesn't appreciably eat into your profits.
Still got some openings, looks like? Assign me one and I will chip away at it. Been meaning to spend some time in the cockpit again and have a hard time coming up with things to do.
I am sort of working on visiting all the galactic sectors, so if things are heading far enough out, I would probably make progress on that heading (generally speaking) galactic east of the bubble. Not too picky though, I will work on whatever needs doing.
I do not have a fleet carrier and am not really inclined towards one, so if there are any inaccessible stars I can coordinate with someone to reach them at a later date.
I am sort of working on visiting all the galactic sectors, so if things are heading far enough out, I would probably make progress on that heading (generally speaking) galactic east of the bubble. Not too picky though, I will work on whatever needs doing.
I do not have a fleet carrier and am not really inclined towards one, so if there are any inaccessible stars I can coordinate with someone to reach them at a later date.
Welcome on board Farran - I've provisionally put you down for slice 37, happy HIP hunting
This system is actually in Slice 20, no? My slice? I'm currently headed out that way and it is unreachable in 66ly DBX. I have plotted a two jump route once on station for any intrepid FC owner who wants to help a pleb out. @Factabulous and @Getedoi have already helped me out once a piece. This one's a far piece away from the bubble. 22kly's. Somebody want to pick me up in BYOO THIO YT-Y D1-0?Anybody? I'm 258 jumps away so no rush.
Thank you, good sir. Setting off now.Welcome on board Farran - I've provisionally put you down for slice 37, happy HIP hunting
Went ahead and bookmarked the first 50. Of these, there are 3 or so that look like they may be inaccessible, but I will figure that out when I get to them. The farthest is a little over 8000 Ly, between that and the scattered nature that should keep me busy for a little bit.
HIP 109609 was not found when I searched it in the galaxy map, can anybody confirm?
I'm not in game to check just now, but yes, there will definitely be stars in the spreadsheet that don't exist in the ED galaxy. I haven't been able to discern a clear pattern, but it seems like one possible cause is catalog entries where the uncertainty in the astrometrics - especially parallax - exceeded some threshold. For these stars, when you enter their name and click the search button the galaxy map, nothing will happen.
There are also HIP stars that do exist in the game, but have been combined into another system by stellar forge. For these, when you click the search button, you will be taken to an empty point in space. If you check nearby catalog stars (not necessarily with HIP XYZ names), you will probably find a star with the HIP number you're looking for as a secondary star in one of those systems.
Finally, there are HIP stars that you can't target because they are outside the bounds of the viewable galaxy map. When you click the search button for them, you will be taken far outside the galaxy, you might see the star flash on screen for an instant, and then the view will snap to an empty point in space, most likely around 9000 ly above/below the plane. However, you can verify their info by switching the side panel from the search tab to the info tab - it will display the information for the star while the map is moving to position, giving you a couple of seconds to take a glance or make a screenshot.
Just a tip, you might consider making a copy of the spreadsheet and sorting your slice by parallax distance. They don't correspond exactly (sometimes not even closely) to the distances in the ED galaxy, but that will let you at least approximately work your way either out from or in toward Sol.
Not there for me as well, you will find plenty that aren't there, I got quite a few from this slice and the last one.
Ah - quick heads up, HIP 109609 is not your slice - you need rows 109590 to 110089 on the spreadsheet, not HIP 109590 to HIP 110089. The first star in your slice is HIP 42900.
(@varonica I hate to say it but I think you may have done the same?)
There's nothing wrong with looking at a straight sequence of HIP numbers of course, any data on new stars is welcome and you are likely to be filling in gaps in old existing data on edsm when you visit, but you're much more likely to find lots of "new" stars if you use one of the slices proper as they already have (most of) the known stars filtered out.
I double-checked the leading post and it did not seem terribly clear that was the intention, but I will go back and update my bookmarks. Only visited 11 systems so far anyway but by kind of a happy accident, one of the systems in that range was a bubble system with (formerly) unmapped bodies.
I, also, definitely did not make this mistake
In a completely unrelated turn of events, I haven't quite finished slice 38...
Oh no.....I think......did I?
Now to wait in anxiety until I get home from work to find out.....
