Inner Moons List

[Shnyrik]

Four shepherd moons here, ring is about 2.4MM radius

Sorry, is the outer ring visible in game?

 

[Anticon]

Barely - wasn't worth a screenshot, so faint.

 

[Shnyrik]

One more nice ring with shepherd moons in Phae Chria QL-Z b44-0.

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[idahosurge]

I didn't see HIP 109144 on the google spreadsheet so I am posting. Since it is in the bubble I was surprised it was not on the list. Four moons around HIP 109144 1 between the A and B rings.

 

[Hedy]

Four Shepherd moons. The main star is a Black Hole and the rings were not visible, nor did they appear on the orrery. Not sure if that is usual?

Moon list from Observatory app.

 

[Shnyrik]

Not sure if that is usual?

Unfortunately, yes. Quite many large rings are invisible in ED.

nor did they appear on the orrery

That is also not very uncommon, mainly for the rings of brown dwarfs and other stars.

 

[Mooing]

This pretty interesting system with a T-class star that hosts 2 shepherd moons, one with bio signals. Hyuqau EM-V e2-317

 

[GlowyHedgehog]

Lysoof LM-Y b55-1 5
I couldn't map the outer ring, but you can see it faintly to the left of the image.

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[iain666]

Found a brown dwarf on the roof of the galaxy with a couple of shepherd moons. I particularly like how the outer ring gets lost in the background of the galactic disc and turns into a rainbow.

 

[CMDR Junagu]

I've just discovered another - in Kepler's Crest and in a very sparse region (the nearest neighbour is 57Lyrs).

Gongue NR-C d0 A6

Spoiler: Orrery view

All the moons are landable and the only one outside the 3rd rings is moon D which is in an eccentric orbit, which means nice views from the surface:

Spoiler: View from moon D

It also has great gravity for driving (I like it anyway) - 0.12g.
The inner moons have some nice features, e.g.:

Spoiler: Moon C

Spoiler: Stats for the rings

The system is also a Green system.

 

[LCU No Fool Like One]

Are you just recording moons between rings or do you count them close to the outer edge?

 

[Shnyrik]

Are you just recording moons between rings or do you count them close to the outer edge?

Well I add to the table only moons inside rings, though, actually, in real world moons on the outer edge would also count as shepherds.

But. Moons close to the rings edge look cool, so if you have nice pics -- post them here

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UPD. I also have a gif of a lunar flyby from the ring, though I have no idea of how to paste it here.

 

[LCU No Fool Like One]

I'll post pictures in a few days. The moons have overlapping orbits and should come close to colliding every 8 days.

So I should be able to at least get a picture of both on the edge of the rings when they are next due to pass.

Its a pretty special system

 

[LCU No Fool Like One]

Only a couple more days now. But here is a picture of one of the sheperds. Its the little one. The big one is another planet

 

[LCU No Fool Like One]

Only a few more hours to go in this crazy system. Two sheperds in the same shot.

 

[LCU No Fool Like One]

Well that was fun. Synuefe WH-F c0 Should happen again in 8 days

 

[Mooing]

Just found this HMC shepherd out in the Abyss

 

[Mooing]

Also, can someone confirm a new shepherd AW at Skaude XW-Q c19-3?

 

[Shnyrik]

One more nice ring with four shepherd moons in Hypio Pri UV-B d14-3546 body #8

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[Shnyrik]

And one more nice system, reported by cmdr. Smoht: Blae Phoea KA-C d14-85

Discovered 09/16/3306, this system contains a good number of ringed bodies, among which stands out the number 7.
This Sudarsky class III gas giant has 2 rings, with the particularity that the outer ring has a inner radius of 3.170.600km.
This causes that 3 of the 4 bodies that orbit the GG are between the outer an the inner ring.
The fourth body is a Water world, of course ringed too, that orbits the entire set.

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