So we're close to almost 30 "green" gas giants by my last count. That's high enough count / low enough rarity that only the spectatular ones are going to be future-POI worthy, and we may demote older ones that are not very green to the Archived section.
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So we're close to almost 30 "green" gas giants by my last count. That's high enough count / low enough rarity that only the spectatular ones are going to be future-POI worthy, and we may demote older ones that are not very green to the Archived section.
@LCU No Fool Like One : Although as per @Heavy Johnson 's comment, the GMP is no longer accepting planetary nebulae, the Catalogue of Galactic Nebulae does accept any and all. Your latest post is already in there though. As a bonus, EDAstro automatically generates maps from the catalogue, see here and here.
For the full picture: 24 known GGGs (and 1 unconfirmed), out of 13.6 million gas giants.
Raw numbers do not a POI make.
Yup, I know. (POI for the GMP, of course.) I said "for the full picture", since you wrote "almost 30" and "high enough count / low enough rarity".
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Yeah that was my ballpark, I knew it was at least 24 and hadn't looked in a while. I think I assumed another 3 or 4 would have been found by now....
In order to not overflood the POI map, we have to make decisions about relative rarity along with what is reasonably interesting. There might be only 1 system in the whole galaxy with 12 HRGGs, 2 WW and an AW orbiting a WG (I made this up), but it doesn't by itself become notable. The rarity factor on GGGs was quite high when we had < 10 and most of them were very visually stunning. With the spike in GGGs that aren't visually stunning, just the existence of the thing itself isn't really worth a POI.
You know, if you divide GGGs into "very green" and "barely green" categories, then that's due to the FSS. It has made finding "beautiful" GGGs much more difficult, while the Codex has made finding others' GGGs of all kinds much easier. So it's not like the GMP nor the whole dataset is going to be flooded with any of them. (Especially when you consider how few "very green" gas giants were found during the times when it was not only much easier to spot them, but also more systems were explored.)
| Name: | Lemon Slice Nebula |
| Game map search ref: | BD+83 357 |
| Description: | IC 3568 is a planetary nebula that is 1.3 kiloparsecs (4500 ly) away from Earth in the constellation of Camelopardalis (just 7.5 degrees from Polaris). It is a relatively young nebula and has a core diameter of only about 0.4 light-years. It was dubbed the Lemon Slice Nebula by Jim Kaler, due to its appearance in one false-colour image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The Lemon slice nebula is one of the most simple nebulae known, with an almost perfectly spherical morphology. The core of the nebula does not have a distinctly visible structure in formation and is mostly composed of ionized helium. A faint halo of interstellar dust surrounds the nebula. On June 9th, 3306, with the release of the Drake-class fleet carrier, a race to reach the nebula began. 2 carriers, Tranquility Platform, and White Flow were part of an intense battle to be the first to reach the nebula. In the end, Tranquility Platform made it there first, merely minutes ahead of White Flow, and the Lemon Drop in a somewhat distant 3rd place. Members of each carrier can be found here. The route to reach the Lemon Slice Nebula is as Follows:
Note: There appears to be a bug that causes the nebula to either not render or render improperly. Do not make the journey expecting vibrant, yellow skies. |
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There are probably going to be a lot of records broken for highest, lowest system and so on. I presume you won't need details unless the systems have other distinguishing features
Maybe new category? Lowest/highest system without carriers, and with carriers.
We do keep old records as POIs when they are superseded. Unfortunately the starship height/depth records are already quite fragmented: vanilla, double supercharge, pre-fuelling, one-way only.
Updated the NGC 188 entry as it was originally tagged using an exploit. The cluster has now been surveyed by the DSSA Alethia and its faction, which is bound for the Formidine Rift.
Frontier have been made aware of the exploited tags and have indicated they'll be removed so that the legitimate tags from the Alethia survey team are displayed instead.
Updated entry:
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Frontier have been made aware of the exploited tags and have indicated they'll be removed so that the legitimate tags from the Alethia survey team are displayed instead.
Updated entry:
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| Name: | Epimetheus Rest |
| Game map search ref: | HD 79319 |
| Description: | About 2.225 LY above the galactic plane, rests a titan. Epimetheus is a C class carbon star, which was reached by mankind for the first time in 9th of June of 3306 with a Drake Class carrier. It is believed to be the highest C star ever visited so far, and cannot be reached in a regular ship. Route: WREGOE NT-I D9-61 WREGOE WB-O B22-0 WREGOE TD-Y C2-0 OUTOTZ QU-D D13-0 OUTOTCH PL-J D10-0 AH CANCRI HD 76133 HD 81123 HD 79319 |
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After preperations and tests that took place for weeks, we finally were able to buy a carrier yesterday and me along with 7 more cmdrs, raced our way to this system on an amazing journey.
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Great effort, Commanders! May the winds be at your backs!
Very nice photo, especially #2!After preperations and tests that took place for weeks, we finally were able to buy a carrier yesterday and me along with 7 more cmdrs, raced our way to this system on an amazing journey.
Name: Epimetheus Rest Game map search ref: HD 79319 Description: About 2.225 LY above the galactic plane, rests a titan. Epimetheus is a C class carbon star, which was reached by mankind for the first time in 9th of June of 3306 with a Drake Class carrier. It is believed to be the highest C star ever visited so far, and cannot be reached in a regular ship.
Route:
WREGOE NT-I D9-61
WREGOE WB-O B22-0
WREGOE TD-Y C2-0
OUTOTZ QU-D D13-0
OUTOTCH PL-J D10-0
AH CANCRI
HD 76133
HD 81123
HD 79319Screenshot reference:
O7!
| Name | The Challenger Deep |
| Game map search reference | Schi Pri AA-A h5 |
| Description | At 3856LY below the galactic plane, this is the deepest system reached to date, having been Identified by Jon and Taen's extensive mapping efforts as a target for the new Fleet Carriers. The Nautilus-class Deep Space Carrier Challenger was commissioned in Colonia on 9 June 3306 and was one of the first carriers to set out from the region, thanks to quick fuelling work by BooT CZ, Doncarnage1 and Jon. Flying non-stop for 7 hours to reach her destination, Challenger arrived in the early hours of 10 June. The system comprises two black holes and a G class star. There are no other bodies. It is named for the deepest place below the oceans of Earth, which was discovered by HMS Challenger in 1875; the DSC Challenger takes her name from this vessel, as have other exploration vessels over the centuries. |
| Pictures | Endurance approaches Challenger 
The G-class star is the sole source of light in the system 
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Note on records:
"Highest / lowest" of anything or ever is a good POI
"Highest / lowest" of type X star is not a good POI - there are dozens of body types
"Highest / lowest" of anything or ever is a good POI
"Highest / lowest" of type X star is not a good POI - there are dozens of body types
I would like to submit the highest system reached. Currently EDSM is showing T Ursae Majoris at 3,451.44 ly
But yesterday we passed:
Syroomu aa-a h4 3617 ly
Syroomu aa-a H1 3615 ly
And Syroomu aa-a H0 3716 ly which may be the new record holder
We also know that Commander Taen reached Ooh Free AA-A h3 at 3686.5 ly
However until EDSM updates the records we wont know for sure if there are other systems that got higher.
Not sure whether I should nudge @AnthorNet as I know he is busy.
Do not do so; Anthor is very busy with his own things.
Regarding the 'highest' under EDSM's Record->Systems, those stats do not update in real-time. I don't know how often they update; give it a day or two.
If you want a new POI for the highest system, please submit an entry for it like you see for the rest of the entries here, and we'll process it in the normal order. Thanks!
Edit: Also, you need to be submitting logs if you visit these distant systems, if you want them to show up on EDSM! Make sure you're using a tool like EDDiscovery and syncing logs to EDSM, or use the manual upload option. There are other tools. We rely on users submitting logs - if you don't submit logs we can't show the accurate distant systems reached!
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They are all on EDSM with Sox as the submitter. The systems themselves were tagged in a wing. I use EDMC to submit my logs but also uploaded directly to the site.