Finally arrived in Colonia, and can now submit my next batch of Earth-likes. Again, the order is order of my discovery. This time, they didn't come in clusters, just one per sector at fairly regular intervals, about two ELWs per week.
System name | Planet ID | Dist. from Sol (ly) | First discovered by | Contributed by | System star(s) type | Ringed EL? | Moons | Screenshot URL |
BOEFT GM-U d3-1203 | 1 | 15948.05 | SAPYX | SAPYX | G7 VAB | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/QM6Y7yk.jpg |
EESHORPS VF-E d12-373 | 7 | 18467.88 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F1 VI | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/9QENman.jpg |
DRYOEA FLYAO GG-O d6-712 | A 2 | 19074.15 | SAPYX | SAPYX | G6 VAB, M2 VA, M5 VA | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/WXNTQ2D.jpg |
ATHAIP QF-L d9-1665 | 8 | 22844.14 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F9 VB | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/zyFkGEi.jpg |
STUEMEAE AF-A c7839 | A 6 | sorry | MARX, SAPYX | MARX, SAPYX | G6 VAB, M6 VA | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/irzITKC.jpg |
ZUNOAE TH-U c16-8507 | A 1 | 24184.37 | SAPYX | SAPYX | G5 VAB, M2 VA, M8 VA | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/4mwSe9E.jpg |
SCHEE FLYI FI-H d11-8528 | A 7 | 23436.09 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F8 VI, M3 VA | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/8rTCnBb.jpg |
KYLOALN TG-B d14-1472 | B 12 | 22790.19 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F3 VI, K6 VA | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/YSMBxbk.jpg |
KYLOARPH LI-S d4-5745 | AB 3 | 22405.42 | SAPYX | SAPYX | F0 VI, K6 VA, Y5 V, Y0 V, Y2 V, Y2 V | No | 0 | http://i.imgur.com/ivVNREo.jpg |
My usual tourist notes:
Boeft: Another in the "small-cold-thin-aired" class of ELWs, with little to offer colonists other than the fact that it happens to lie almost on a direct line from Sol to the Core; the view of the Core from here is bracketed between the Boepp and Greae Phio nebulae. This is an archipelago planet with little visible land; if they gave me naming rights I'd name it "New Svalbard". If this world is too cold for you, the next planet out is a non-terraformable waterworld kept warm by a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.
Eeshorps: I spent considerable time and effort to find an ELW in the Eeshorps sector, failed, gave up, then found this one as I was on my way out of the sector. It's as cold as Boeft, but more Earth-sized and with thicker air. The view of the Eeshorps Nebula isn't as spectacular as I'd hoped, but I got a nice shot of the planet with the nebula behind.
Dryoea Flyao: A generally more habitable world than the first two in this post and a more interesting and varied system it finds itself in. The sunwards HMC is terraformable, and there may be more terraformables around the remote pair of red dwarf companion stars (at 96,000 Ls, there wasn't enough interest to tempt me to check it out). Again, I got a nice pic with three nebulae behind.
Athaip: Just four 40-LY-jumps away from the Great Annihilator I found this little jewel. It's much warmer than the others found so far, indeed at 292K (19 deg C) it's a temperate paradise. And landables? We gotcha landables right here, six of em (I only Tagged two), as well as one terraformable HMC (the next planet sunwards). This far into the Core, the sky is bright and nebula-free.
Stuemeae: I can't really claim credit for this one, it's the one Marx found just 60 LY from Sag A and invited me to co-Tag with him; I'm pleased that the ED system map is recognizing this properly, with his name first. Unless, of course, ED just sorts co-discoverers alphabetically. The world itself is fairly ordinary, as ELWs go, a bit on the small side, though I'm happy to note it's the first I've added to my list with a surface temp within 2 degrees of Earth-average. The rest of the system is also about average, with one non-terraformable waterworld neighbour. The secondary star is 300,000 Ls away and neither of us felt like going all the way out there. I'm afraid I was too distracted taking screenshots to remember to record the distance to Sol; I hope Marx didn't forget too.
Zunoae: Hot hot hot, it may not be hot enough to be disqualified from ELW classification but it's a perpetual Australian Christmas down there, at 304 K (31 deg C) average temp, on a small world in a tight tidally-locked co-orbit with a terraformable HMC. With that humidity, it's a jungle planet, not a desert one. The red dwarf binary pair are remote and planet-less.
Schee Flyi: At first glance, here is another "typical" ELW for this batch: small (again) and just a shave warmer than Earth-normal. What's atypical here is the near-perfect match for Earth-normal atmosphere composition (though it's a bit too thin to be considered "comfortable") and the day length, just 0.4 days (about 10 hours), is the fastest spin I've yet seen on an ELW. Elsewhere in the system, we've got a terraformable HMC and a large non-terraformable waterworld. If you want those asteroids and gas giants, you'll have to travel 200,000 Ls to Tag them.
Kyloaln: The first world in this batch around a secondary star. Fortunately, it's not too far away, only 13,000 Ls or so. There is one terraformable HMC around the primary star, and two more sunwards of the ELW. Plus the terraformable waterworld that is co-orbiting the ELW, that's a total of five terraformables to hunt down in this system. The ELW is another jungle planet, similar to Zunoae only bigger. The WW is co-orbiting close enough to provide a nice backdrop for screenshots.
Kyloarph: I declare the Kylo Region to be "Weird Space". Not too far away, there's the famous
Glowing Giant of Kyloall in the Kyloall BF-A F2322 system, and here in Kyloarph we have what is easily the most spectacularly alien sky for an Earth-like I've yet encountered. The planet itself is fairly mundane - large, cold and thin-aired - but who wouldn't want to colonize here? Two bright, widely separated suns, a large Y-dwarf in a highly inclined orbit, a mid-sized life-bearing gas giant at enough inclination to see the rings, forming a triple co-orbital set, three more Y-dwarfs in the system to act as daystars, a glittering background of stars with an abundance of bright blue stars in the sector, and everything clearly visible from the Earth-like. This is the one place where I wished my ship had a Google Earth camera to capture a 360 degree view; I needed to take two screenshots to get everything in: