identifying faraway objects in-system

[Avnas]

i've seen a few people asking about how you find objects without the best discovery scanner in-system, so i thought i'd clarify for anyone who can't work it out.



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take a best guess at what the object is. i was just in a system with a brown dwarf over 750,000LS away from the main star, but it was instantly obivous which was the brown dwarf, even through it was further away, even without seeing orbit lines. you can sometimes see orbit lines which can give you a clue. line yourself up with it.

as you move toward the object, change your course. yaw or pitch, so your target cursor stays away from the object for a while.

in-system object will move a small amount from your perspective.


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out-of system object will remain stationary from your perspective*
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*faraway objects move less, objects may appear larger in mirror

 

[Dash]

In binary systems, you seem to always drop out with your back to the secondary star. Check your System View to see what colour spot you're looking for and do a 180° turn and look for that colour dot.

Head out towards it at full speed. Once you've gained some good speed point your ship down and switch to free look so you can keep an eye on your dot out the roof canopy (if you have one). Track your target dot against neighbouring stars as above, if there is relative movement then this is your second star.

And yes, sometimes they're a _really_ long way out. I'm not really sure the return is worth treking out. If you're still accelerating after 10 minutes, it's probably not worth your time.