At last, I have reached a safe harbour on my tour - Gigarin Gate - landed safely, and have cashed in my Earth-like claims. I've never reported multiple systems in one post, let's see if I can make the table work. They are in order of my encountering them, which more or less equals their distance from Sol.
System name | Planet ID | Dist. from Sol (ly) | First discovered by | Contributed by | System star(s) type | Ringed EL? | Moons | Screenshot URL |
SWOIPHS BK-C c2-10 | 3 | 3670.35 | SAPYX | SAPYX | G3 VAB | No | 1 | http://i.imgur.com/eip7h4t.jpg |
PRUA DRYOU LO-X d2-8 | A 6 | 4054.40 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F8 VAB, G6 VA | No | 1 | http://i.imgur.com/oMNTi3k.jpg |
PRUA DRYOU GN-Q d6-8 | A 11 | 4529.04 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F6 VB, M2 VA, M6 VA | No | 1 | http://i.imgur.com/lxxaxfq.jpg |
QEAJO VE-Q d5-12 | B 5 | 9046.75 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F0 VI, F9 VB | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/liKJApZ.jpg |
PRIELEAU NW-V d2-26 | B 4 a | 9548.54 | SAPYX | SAPYX | A9 VB, G8 VAB | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/r9XuEsy.jpg |
PRIELEAU JN-J d9-12 | 4 | 9769.19 | SAPYX | SAPYX | A8 VI | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/vF27CjP.jpg |
BLAU AEC PH-C d3 | 5 | 12076.02 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F3 VI | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/JznRI4A.jpg |
BLAU AEC VY-V c4-1 | B 3 | 12205.82 | SAPYX | SAPYX | G9 VA, K6 VA | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/t71efrL.jpg |
BLAU AEC AA-X d2-10 | A 2 | 12289.06 | SAPYX | SAPYX | G2 VAB, M5 VA, K0 VAB | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/VwTbNYA.jpg |
BLAU AEC GR-Q c7-2 | 3 | 12293.91 | SAPYX | SAPYX | G7 VAB | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/sT2cfBz.jpg |
BLAU AEC DW-T d4-3 | 3 | 12386.16 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F6 VB | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/qkm6yfS.jpg |
BLU AESCS YK-P e5-63 | 6 | 12989.28 | SAPYX | SAPYX | A6 VAB | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/VNAiygB.jpg |
CLOOKIA FT-F d12-187 | 6 | 13212.70 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F6 VB, K4 VA | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/xN4pgiz.jpg |
GRU HYPUE ZT-Z d62 | B 6 | 13802.33 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F3 VI, F4 VI | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/2VrZQAp.jpg |
Some notes and observations.
The Earth-likes came in four clusters, roughly a week apart, where I found multiple ELWs in a single 24-hour period.
Cluster 1 - on the line from VY Can Maj to Eta Carina
Swoiphs: Fairly normal, conditions cool and damp, exactly 1 Earth gravity, but a thicker atmosphere. The two HMCs in the next orbit inwards are both terraformable.
Prua Dryou 1: Almost a carbon-copy of Swoiphs system, right down to the moon and the double-terraformable-HMC neighbours, though this planet is heavier, has a thinner atmosphere, chillier and damper. The barren companion star is too remote to affect the climate.
Prua Dryou 2: The surface conditions on this world are nearly identical to those on Prua Dryou 1 in every respect, but this planet's star system is much more interesting. There's three terraformable HMCs sunwards of the Earth-like, plus a binary M-class system 36,000 Ls away with some planets that were almost worth travelling out that far to scan; none of them appear to be terraformable.
Cluster 2 - on the line from the Eta Carina Nebula to the Blau Aec sector
Qeajo: The primary star in this system is barren; you need to travel 70,000 Ls to reach the secondary star with the Earth-like. This world is a steamy jungle planet (average temp 42 degrees C!) with 4 atmospheres of surface pressure - it's at the limits of "Earth-like" classification. Given how hot this place is, I'm surprised that the
sunward HMC is, once again, rated as a terraformable. I didn't scan any of the other planets in this system besides those two, so there may be another terraformable hidden here.
Prieleau 1: This is the first Earth-like moon I have discovered and tagged, orbiting a large (6 Earth-masses) non-Terraformable HMC. The primary star is an A9, usually too young and hot for natural Earth-likes to be found, but there are three terraformables around it. The Earth-like moon is around the secondary star, 31,000 Ls away; no other planets in the secondary system are terraformable. The moon is small, cold and with a very thin atmosphere - quite at the opposite extremes of the Earthlike window compared to Qeajo.
Prieleau 2: Water, water everywhere, but it's only on the fourth planet that you can drink it. The second planet is hotter than a cup of coffee and the third has way too much ammonia. Despite this, they (and HMC planet 1) are all terraformable. This Earthlike is again on the small and cool side but at least the air is Earth-normal.
Cluster 3 - in Blau Aec Sector
Blau Aec 1: A tropical paradise: a myriad islands scattered across a vast, pleasantly warm ocean, 0.76 Earth gravities - who wouldn't want to retire here? And here in beautiful Blau Aec sector, it's far enough above the galactic plane and close enough to the Core that the night sky is truly awesome. For explorers, the terraformable HMC and ammoniacal waterworld that bookend the ELW are worth scanning.
Blau Aec 2: The same size as Blau Aec 1, but otherwise the opposite: cold, dry and not entirely hospitable; the land-to-sea ratio is one of the highest I have seen on an Earth-like, I would guess somewhere around 70% land. I'm betting skiing, rather than surfing, is the pastime to be had here. There are three other water-worlds in this system, all of them with average temperature below freezing.
Blau Aec 3: Another small, cold, unappealing world. The even smaller co-orbiting HMC is terraformable; I didn't bother scanning anything else in this triple-star system; the M-class star is 9000 Ls away but just has a string of dragon-spittle worldlets, the K-class is 178,000 Ls away.
Blau Aec 4: This archipelago world is in the slightly bigger yet slightly thinner-aired class of ELW. The average temperature is pretty good, too; I'd call this one the third-most-livable world of the five Blau Aec discoveries. Planet 2 is a terraformable HMC and Planet 4 is a Class II gas giant within easy scan range.
Blau Aec 5: Please note, this is a different system to the previously-reported BLAU AEC DW-T d4-2 system containing an Earth-like (which was the reason I'd flown all the way out here, and previously reported in this thread). It's right next door to it, though, and is home to another Earth-like. And it's another tropical beauty, much like Blau Aec 1 and much nicer than the one I'd come all this way to verify. The chilly waterworld and the too-warm HMC to either side of it are both terraformable.
Cluster 4 - on the line from Blau Aec sector to Gigarin Gate
Blu Aescs: Another winter wonderland, but otherwise very Earth-normal. Mundane, even, but it was the first ELW I'd seen in a week, so still very much appreciated. The Terraformable HMC next-planet-inwards was the only other thing in this system I stopped to scan.
Clookia: I love the name of this sector, and I'm glad I found an ELW in it. It's simlar to Blau Aec 2: cold, dry, not much ocean. The co-orbiting HMC plus the next one in are both terraformable; nothing else in-system was scanned. The secondary star is remote and barren.
Gru Hypue: in the home stretch now, just one more ELW before arriving at Gigarin. It's in the same sector as Gigarin and well into the Colonia transit corridor; it's surprising to me how many untagged worlds are still out here. The Earth-like itself isn't much to write home about - another chillly, thin-aired snowscape - but the system has plenty else to offer. The primary star has a bunch of HMCs and Class II giants, wihile the second star has the ELW, two waterwords (one of which is terraformable) and that triple-planet HMC group (B2 to B4) which are all terraformable. I didn't scan the entire system, but it was still easily the most valuable system I've scanned so far this trip. Well worth a stopover.
For more notes and commentary on my trip, I'll be posting in my tour thread shortly. Including a map!