Incredible find! (Exploration)

TankMaster

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So i set out last week to check the view 900ly north from Chi Eridani, it was a great view of the galaxy and so i thought i would visit the Eagle Nebula mantaining that altitude as long as posible so as to get an even better view of the galaxy...well, eagle nebula is more than 6,500ly from where i was so after a few hundred ly i decided to go elsewhere closer, searching around the galaxy map i found the SADR region, the system SADR lies at the center of the Cygnus's cross (fount that out via wikipedia :p), this was about 2,300ly from where i was so i took off to there.

Arriving at a system in the SADR region, 22ly from SADR and about to make my last jump i spotted something curious:

What is that?

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Seeing as it was plainly visible in normal space i thought it must be close by...it wasn't...looking around a lot in the galaxy map, selecting system after system, getting closer to the general direction of this thing i spotted some nebulae in the distance in that direction, so far out they're not even visible in normal space and on one of these, called NGC 7822, i found what must be the stars that form such a "line" on the background:

I can see it clearly but it's 1,800ly from here!:

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This is what i found in the galaxy map:

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It's full of black holes!:

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Oh wow i was planning on observing the SADR nebula, perhaps go to the 2 others in the vicinity (relatively speaking) and then head back to civilized space....my plans are ruined!, NGC 7822 is like an explorer's sirens call!

Oh well, no use fighting it, must go there...quick!...My God, it's full of stars!
 

Hypermaniak

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You spotted something curious ... I love it, how many players would have totally missed that curio?

Congrats and thanks for sharing. Address postcards to Alioth please, thanks :)
 

carazvan

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Been trying to keep this quiet until I explored it fully but oh well ... Currently in S171 30 ... got to S171 today finally (started back in gamma 1.05 but had to finish a thesis in the meantime )
word of caution bring a jump drive with a 20+ LY capability ... it gets sparse the last 300LY away from it and I had to do a large detour with my 23LY drive

Pictures and records will be coming in about 1 day :)
 
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TankMaster

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carazvan said:
Been trying to keep this quiet until I explored it fully but oh well ... Currently in S171 30 ... got to S171 today finally (started back in gamma 1.05 but had to finish a thesis in the meantime )
word of caution bring a jump drive with a 20+ LY capability ... it gets sparse the last 300LY away from it and I had to do a large detour with my 23LY drive

Pictures and records will be coming in about 1 day :)
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No problems there :D, my Asp can do 29.63LY on a full tank.
 

ElleShaped

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I'm actually heading there, myself~! I stopped by the North America and Pelican nebulae first, and I'm intending on heading through the Elephant's Trunk nebula on my way to the NGC 7822 nebula. I've noted a half-dozen neutron stars in and around Elephant's Trunk, and I've found two black holes just on the trip by accident.

Definitely looking forward to NGC 7822 greatly <grin>

Here's a pic I took tonight, about a quarter of the way to Elephant's Trunk:

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carazvan

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Here's some nice previews of the trip there.

Initial shock back in gamma 1.05 .. 2700Ly challenge accepted
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Nice view from about ~500Ly away
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Getting further apart at ~200Ly away
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The detour at least made for a nice picture from 'below'
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Close now ~40Ly away
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And at the first star
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While I will post some pics for cartographic records thread I'll try to not show any system shots unless it's relevant ... let you guys wonder until you get there ... but yes .. there are some awesome places so far :)

It's also awesome that these I think are taken from actual studies! http://iopscience.iop.org/0067-0049/154/1/367
 

TankMaster

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ElleShaped said:
I'm actually heading there, myself~! I stopped by the North America and Pelican nebulae first, and I'm intending on heading through the Elephant's Trunk nebula on my way to the NGC 7822 nebula. I've noted a half-dozen neutron stars in and around Elephant's Trunk, and I've found two black holes just on the trip by accident.

Definitely looking forward to NGC 7822 greatly <grin>

Here's a pic I took tonight, about a quarter of the way to Elephant's Trunk:

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The space around SADR looks incredible, all propper gaseous nebula looking everywhere, FD really improved nebulae since the first gamma version where they looked too much like a solid 3D model.

Here are some pictures i just took:

The SADR main star is enormous!, came in from hyperspace at over 900ls from it...never refueled at a speed of 27c before!

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SADR Nebula (from a different system so i can look at it since SADR is in the center of it):

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Beautiful zone of the galaxy!
 

TankMaster

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Should include this one, full view of the nebula, it really is gorgeous!:

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Edit: Forgot to mention, the system nearest to SADR (about 2ly) requires a permit...wonder what FD will do there in the future? :D
 
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Yanaran

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Thanks for this thread, this was one of the places I was planning to visit during gamma... But then Lugh came along, then Launch happened, conflict zones and military rank... Time to get exploring again :)

Did you sell any of the scans, did it pay much? I've never scanned a black hole before, hope it's worth more than just normal stars. :p
 
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