How to map a super ring ? (around 10ls from its body)

[Ingram]

[Correction, around 10ls from its body]

So today I ran into this monster with 3 rings.
The inner 2 rings are very close to the body but the 3rd one outclassed even the farest satellite E (6.7ly ls from body)
I think that one may be around 10ly ls away from body and IT IS HUGE, probably lots of hotspots on it.
I tried orbiting satellite E, locked it, then threw probe to the ring and switch back to main body. However my probe did not reach that ring.

Is there anyway to get the outer ring mapped?

 

[Nordmarken]

As far as I know it's not possible at the moment.

 

[goemon]

looking to the screenies, there is a body inside the mega ring.

if you are in mapping range for that body, try to fire a probe into the rings directiin - if it hits, it will map the ring, no matter which body you have targeted.

 

[Northpin]

Now that's a ring...
i revisited Sol with the current streak of CG in Sirius... and omg, Saturn is soooo tiny

 

[Ingram]

looking to the screenies, there is a body inside the mega ring.

if you are in mapping range for that body, try to fire a probe into the rings directiin - if it hits, it will map the ring, no matter which body you have targeted.

I tried that but unfortunately satellite E, the nearest one to that ring was about 4 to 5ly ls away. I even fly after the probe to make sure they are in the right path. But in the end they just disappeared after travelling some distance less than 1ly ls.

 

[ECLIP5E]

Impressive ring, never came across anything like that before

 

[varonica]

I tried that but unfortunately satellite E, the nearest one to that ring was about 4 to 5ly away. I even fly after the probe to make sure they are in the right path. But in the end they just disappeared after travelling some distance less than 1ly.

I think you need to replace LY with LS, it's a reasonable sized ring, also keep in mind the larger the body greater range you can use probes at. Not sure about targeting a moon and hitting a ring of the primary, I thought you had to have the primary targeted to hit its ring, I will have to test that!

 

[Ingram]

I think you need to replace LY with LS, it's a reasonable sized ring, also keep in mind the larger the body greater range you can use probes at. Not sure about targeting a moon and hitting a ring of the primary, I thought you had to have the primary targeted to hit its ring, I will have to test that!

Yup you are correct, should be LS. Guess that ring is so big made me typo with LY lol.
I think this could be a bug of surface scanner. It restricted the distance to the body instead of the real targeted element. So away 10 ls from the body already triggered "Too far to deploy". I cannot launch my probe when close to that ring, and cannot hit that ring when I stay close to the body.

 

[CMDR SleepyDelegate]

I would also love to know the answer to this question... Not trying to beat your record ring, but look at this monster - the ring of this Gas giant was 134ls in diameter - it was visible from over 5000ls away, you can't even see some stars from that distance... I can't even imagine what resources must have been in that ring, that we will never be able to mine, because we cannot map it...

 

[goemon]

I think you need to replace LY with LS, it's a reasonable sized ring, also keep in mind the larger the body greater range you can use probes at. Not sure about targeting a moon and hitting a ring of the primary, I thought you had to have the primary targeted to hit its ring, I will have to test that!

i have looked more into the matter, mapping Eol Prou PC-K c9-91.

turns out you can even map a moon without targeting it, if you have another moon in range of the dss. you don't get any animation, but after firing probes to its general direction in the same pattern as usual, the body is 100% mapped.

limitation to that is always to have any body in dss range to fire probes at all.