How do I find P-type anomalies?

[Zeus Cubed]

I do not know if it is me or if it is a bug.
I am in the middle of nowhere, in Kepler's crest, and I went to a very far out system in which P-type anomalies were reported.
I am in the very system in which codex map reports the existence of the anomaly, but I cannot locate any of them.
My scanner signals only one notable stellar phenomenon, and it is a Lagrange cloud.
Do P-type anomalies show on the scanner? Or I have to map (I don't know) all the terrestrial water planets, or to exit supercruise near them, in order to spot them?

I do fear my Elite is bugged, but I would like confirmation before submitting a bug.

By the way, this is not the only strange phenomenon.
When I exit supercruise at a Lagrange cloud, I never see the cloud itself. I know that there is a phenomenon there only because I usually see some alien life form, but never the cloud itself.

 

[Shnyrik]

I do fear my Elite is bugged, but I would like confirmation before submitting a bug

That is not impossible, however, there is one more possibility: have you ever tried to find small lifeforms in NSPs using radar blinks?

When I exit supercruise at a Lagrange cloud, I never see the cloud itself. I know that there is a phenomenon there only because I usually see some alien life form, but never the cloud itself

Does this work only for proto-lagrange clouds, or also for colored ones?

 

[marx]

They'll be in NSPs, so you were looking at the right place with that Lagrange cloud. All of the anomalies are really quite small, and only show up on your scanner (radar) as unresolved contacts until you're almost right on top of them. So go towards clusters of unresolved contacts, and look for them visually too - they are glowing spheres, after all.

NSP lifeforms tend to start around the center of the instance too, so it's a good idea to use the target indicator and head there as soon as you arrive. Over time, they'll slowly move off elsewhere.

As for the proto-Lagrange clouds: they are there (again mostly around the center), just as very faint dark gray clouds. Against the usual black background, they can be quite difficult to spot.

 

[CMDR Yates]

I do not know if it is me or if it is a bug.
I am in the middle of nowhere, in Kepler's crest, and I went to a very far out system in which P-type anomalies were reported.
I am in the very system in which codex map reports the existence of the anomaly, but I cannot locate any of them.
My scanner signals only one notable stellar phenomenon, and it is a Lagrange cloud.
Do P-type anomalies show on the scanner? Or I have to map (I don't know) all the terrestrial water planets, or to exit supercruise near them, in order to spot them?

I do fear my Elite is bugged, but I would like confirmation before submitting a bug.

By the way, this is not the only strange phenomenon.
When I exit supercruise at a Lagrange cloud, I never see the cloud itself. I know that there is a phenomenon there only because I usually see some alien life form, but never the cloud itself.

You need to fly back and forth through the "cloud" till you happen upon them. They're not visible until you come close, and then they light up and appear as a white contact on your central scanner, and as a contact on the contacts panel.

If you're at a proto-lagrange cloud, they can be faint to the point of invisibility. In areas around the edge of the galaxy (such as Kepler's Crest), proto-lagrange clouds are almost exclusively the only clouds found (and rare even there). Regular clouds form closer to the centre of the galaxy, and lightning clouds tend to be very near the centre. This is likely to be an effect of the region you're exploring in rather than any bug.

 

[Shnyrik]

Against the usual black background, they can be quite difficult to spot.

Yep. And since the only P-types in Kepler's Crest are near the Amundsen's Star, almost all background there is pitch black

 

[marx]

Yep. And since the only P-types in Kepler's Crest are near the Amundsen's Star, almost all background there is pitch black

Yep. At first, I wanted to suggest using the galaxy as a backdrop to spot them, but if memory serves, that's already far enough that the Milky Way looks rather small there - small enough that to use it for this, you'd pretty much have to have a good inkling to where the cloud is already.
Might still make for some good screenies though.

 

[Zeus Cubed]

Well, thanks, I will try that.

 

[varonica]

Yep. And since the only P-types in Kepler's Crest are near the Amundsen's Star, almost all background there is pitch black

Yep, they are in the lagrange cloud, I was there a couple of months back, they are tiny and hard to spot.