How to navigate

Duck Lame

Duck Lame
Hi Commanders,

to navigate is not to open the galaxy map and to click on a star.

I am on my way out, jumb by jump closer to my destination. During waiting for the end of a Hooooonk I saw an interessting structure in front. Would be nice to have a closer look. But how to identify/find a structure (star, nebula, ...) which you can see on your windshield in the galaxy map? It is even hard to estimate a rough direction.

Since we do not have a real compass (no that small thing in HUD is not a compass) with a scaling, it is a simple guess. The galaxy map has a coordinate system, each structure has coordinates, but our ship has no information about our orientation within that coordinates, no absolute position, no relative angles, nothing. Maybe portside, starboard, above, below, ..... noo that's not navigation.

The only way I can think of at the moment is to click (arbitrarly) in the galaxy map on stars to target them. Then to look in our ship if the target is (by accident) in the right direction.

Or are there any other procdures how to find the right way?

I would like to see coordinates and angles as on planets for example and the ability in the galaxy map to set a target direction and not only to target stars. Setting a direction and an acceptance angle would make traveling a little bit easier. Or not?

Greetings

Ducky
 

Qohen Leth

Qohen Leth
Duck Lame said:
Hi Commanders,

to navigate is not to open the galaxy map and to click on a star.

I am on my way out, jumb by jump closer to my destination. During waiting for the end of a Hooooonk I saw an interessting structure in front. Would be nice to have a closer look. But how to identify/find a structure (star, nebula, ...) which you can see on your windshield in the galaxy map? It is even hard to estimate a rough direction.

Since we do not have a real compass (no that small thing in HUD is not a compass) with a scaling, it is a simple guess. The galaxy map has a coordinate system, each structure has coordinates, but our ship has no information about our orientation within that coordinates, no absolute position, no relative angles, nothing. Maybe portside, starboard, above, below, ..... noo that's not navigation.

The only way I can think of at the moment is to click (arbitrarly) in the galaxy map on stars to target them. Then to look in our ship if the target is (by accident) in the right direction.

Or are there any other procdures how to find the right way?

I would like to see coordinates and angles as on planets for example and the ability in the galaxy map to set a target direction and not only to target stars. Setting a direction and an acceptance angle would make traveling a little bit easier. Or not?

Greetings

Ducky
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Such navigation tools have been asked for times and times again. Right now, the best you can do is use visual markes to match the map and the skybox, but you can't really appreciate distances that way. That being said, if you're new to exploration, you may be wondering about a feature that happens to be very well-known and not a mystery at all. What structure are you talking about? Got pics?

C4R1TON said:
https://hotdoy.ca/ed/bearing/
Hope this helps some.
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That's for surface navigation.
 

Duck Lame

Duck Lame
That is for planetary landing. I was talking about navigation on a bigger scale, between stars for hundreds or even thousends of light years.
 

Duck Lame

Duck Lame
Qohen Leth said:
Such navigation tools have been asked for times and times again. Right now, the best you can do is use visual markes to match the map and the skybox, but you can't really appreciate distances that way. That being said, if you're new to exploration, you may be wondering about a feature that happens to be very well-known and not a mystery at all.
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I expected that :(


What structure are you talking about? Got pics?
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http://imgur.com/BDTmFoW

It is that cluster on the left upper side

It seems that I am coming closer because the shiny disc is now a cluster of separated stars. But I can not estimate if it is a real cluster or only some stars in a line looking close.
 

Duck Lame

Duck Lame
thanks.

A had a look in the galaxy map for NGC 7822 now and I never would have expected that "structure" in that (large) angle to my current route.

Yes, a compass would be nice!
 

Aura Lorell

Aura Lorell
It's not straightforward but it's also not too hard. Let's say you are looking for an interesting stelar formation. First turn on all the options for the galaxy map. Then take a look at your sky when in system. You know where you are in the galaxy and therefore you can roughly judge which direction that formation is. Test it by selecting a system roughly in that direction. See how close your guess is. If you are close then go back to the galaxy map, zoom out a little and move in that direction until you find the formation you are looking for. Same with nebulas but it's easier to find them.
 
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