Inner Moons List

Vithigar · Feb 14, 2022

Nyeajee XZ-M B40-5 4 A

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Dax Angel · Feb 14, 2022

On my way back to the bubble from Colonia, I discovered this nice system. There's a gas giant with a huge ring (25 mil Km / 79 ls) that can easily visible when enter the system. Two inner moons and a gas giant moon with it own moons. There's also a high G landable icy world with ring.

Hedy · Feb 20, 2022

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Outer rings were quite visible

HappyRogger · Feb 22, 2022

Blua Hypoea RT-Z d0 body#2

Blua Hypoea CL-Y g42 body#ABC 1
Shepherd moons directly orbiting L dwarf in system with main Black Hole. Becausue the main body is a L dwarf, the belt is not visible on the orrey map.

HappyRogger · Apr 5, 2022

Blua Hypa AA-A g11 body#2
Shepherd moons directly orbiting Y dwarf in system with main Black Hole.

Puekea KI-R d5-222 body#5

Mooing · Apr 6, 2022

If anyone happens to be in the Trifid/Omega nebula area, it would appear that Traikaae YL-D d12-66 9 a is a new shepherd ELW.

LCU No Fool Like One · Apr 6, 2022

Been having a discussion about what constitutes a shepherd moon over on EDCD.

It has to be close enough to the rings to actually sheperd it, So I have been modifying the Canonn plugin to use the same criteria as Elite Observatory which is 10 radii.

I tested it on Traikaae YL-D d12-66 9 a and it doesn't qualify because ar an orbit of 577,275 km it is about 20 radii from the nearest ring. Also the C ring is likely to be invisible so likely to be a long way from the nearest visible ring.

That said, this thread is about inner moons so I can get the plugin to display "Inner Moon" even if it doesn't qualify as a sheperd.

Mooing · May 5, 2022

Mooing said:
If anyone happens to be in the Trifid/Omega nebula area, it would appear that Traikaae YL-D d12-66 9 a is a new shepherd ELW.

This one is confirmed!

Vithigar · May 5, 2022

LCU No Fool Like One said:
Been having a discussion about what constitutes a shepherd moon over on EDCD.

It has to be close enough to the rings to actually sheperd it, So I have been modifying the Canonn plugin to use the same criteria as Elite Observatory which is 10 radii.

I tested it on Traikaae YL-D d12-66 9 a and it doesn't qualify because ar an orbit of 577,275 km it is about 20 radii from the nearest ring. Also the C ring is likely to be invisible so likely to be a long way from the nearest visible ring.

That said, this thread is about inner moons so I can get the plugin to display "Inner Moon" even if it doesn't qualify as a sheperd.

I can definitely agree that some limitation of distance is useful if you want shepherd moons to be close enough to actually "shepherd", and also be visually interesting, but where did you get that information about Elite Observatory's criteria for them? The built-in shepherd moon check has no such restriction.

Shnyrik · May 5, 2022

Mooing said:
This one is confirmed!

Well, I guess, that's worth mentioning in the OP

LCU No Fool Like One · May 5, 2022

Vithigar said:
I can definitely agree that some limitation of distance is useful if you want shepherd moons to be close enough to actually "shepherd", and also be visually interesting, but where did you get that information about Elite Observatory's criteria for them? The built-in shepherd moon check has no such restriction.

Someone told me about it and gave me a link to a LUA script on github. I don't recall who now.

Chewcat1 · May 10, 2022

Me and a few other CMDR's recorded any shepherd moon we came across on the recent Explore the Core expedition.

Link to Spreadsheet

Here some screenshots of the more picturesque examples discovered.

Floarps OA-L d9-25 7 - Chewcat1

Floarps OA-L d9-25 (20220503-192631).png

Myrielk KZ-F d11-1134 11 - Knighthelm306

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Xeehaei SA-U d4-10 16 - Chewcat1

Xeehaei SA-U d4-10 (20220504-170720).png

Floarps HL-Y d49 CD 1 - Chewcat1

Kerada · May 15, 2022

Five inner/shepherd moons I found in Floarks GR-M d7-165. The moon, f, in the foreground of the image is outer. The planet and moons a to e are barely visible.

CMDR BFunk · Sep 6, 2022

Unfortunately did not notice until after leaving the system, so I have no screenshots, but Observatory Core flagged both of these as shepard moons:
Slulee YN-X b19-1 4 a
Slulee YN-X b19-1 4 b

HappyRogger · Nov 12, 2022

Eol Prae DL-Y g5 body#AB 8
Shepherd moons directly orbiting K Star in system with main Black Hole. Unfortunately, in the Odyssey the planets are poorly visible from a distance and I did not manage to photograph them.

Jabo Zerstorer · Nov 25, 2022

I've not checked the whole thread, so not sure whether this one has been mentioned previously (someone did have first footfall) but I'll add this to the thread anyway. Feel free to add it to your list!

Synuefe PM-I B43-8 1A

Mooing · Feb 9, 2023

Possibly a new Shepherd ELW in Phrautch UO-Z d0

Amargosa · Mar 13, 2023

Those huge "rings" around some planets and brown dwarfs aren't really rings, they're actually protoplanetary disks. Rings of such size would be unrealistic.

varonica · Mar 13, 2023

Amargosa said:
Those huge "rings" around some planets and brown dwarfs aren't really rings, they're actually protoplanetary disks. Rings of such size would be unrealistic.

The planet orbits star J1407, located approximately 434 light-years from Earth. Astronomers first identified the ring system – the first of its kind to be found outside our solar system – in 2012. A new analysis of the data, published in the Astrophysical Journal, shows that the ring system consists of more than 30 rings, each of them tens of millions of kilometers in diameter. Furthermore, the analysis found gaps in the rings, which indicate that satellites (“exomoons”) may have formed.

| EarthSky

It's a super Saturn, 434 light-years from Earth. It has more than 30 rings, with a total diameter of some 120 million kilometers. If we could replace Saturn’s rings with these rings, they’d be easily visible from Earth and larger in our sky than a full moon.

earthsky.org

Amargosa · Mar 13, 2023

varonica said:
| EarthSky

It's a super Saturn, 434 light-years from Earth. It has more than 30 rings, with a total diameter of some 120 million kilometers. If we could replace Saturn’s rings with these rings, they’d be easily visible from Earth and larger in our sky than a full moon.

earthsky.org

In the case of J1407, we see the rings blocking as much as 95 percent of the light of this young Sun-like star for days, so there is a lot of material there that could then form satellites.

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