Lost from the Milky way. (can anyone find the missing stars?)

[Starbuck_]

Starbuck_, you're an anus maximus. How's that for a quality response?

Its ok trolls. are allowed on the forum too. Its a problem with forums all round.

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Not sure how much of the real Galaxy there really is. I Tried a list of pulsars, only 1 existed in game, and that wasn't a pulsar. Maybe using another catalogue might help, but I really don't know enough

I've not been able to find many of the stragglers either.

Another side note, I also could not locate these, but maybe I have too high hopes.
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/20...rn-stars-at-the-edge-of-the-milky-way-galaxy/

 

[Starbuck_]

Also, as Dante80 points out, some of the stars are just listed under alternative names. You can search many by their HIP/HD designations too. Try that if all else fails. -Sid

we never disagreed with his guess, but we did try every designated ID for the star's prior to creating the thread.
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I'm still trying to find some cool stuff to see in the galaxy, I expected FD to have added some nice animations to the stars, Especially after their quality smudge effect on Sag A. So I decided to investigate some pulsating stars and see some spectacular animations around some stars, but yet again most of them have disappeared..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOI-74
P.S. Arriving at the stage of double figures of missing objects. Did FD give us only 1billion stars with the promise to add the other 399billion , after Power Play?

 

[MartinG]

Thread resurrection time…

Alnilam is missing too. It's the middle star in Orion's belt. Orion just doesn't look right without it.

Search for Epsilon Orionis. It really is not that difficult guys..

Aha I see it now. Didn't realise it was much further away than Alnitak and Mintaka. I guess the reason it can't be seen as easily as the other 2 from Sol and neighbourhood is because it's obscured behind Barnard's Loop which is way too bright for naked eye in ED's sky. Orion isn't as recognizable because of that.

No, the reason Orion does not look right when viewed from Sol is much simpler than that.

Apparently E:D does not store the luminosity (or absolute magnitude) of a star, but derives it from the star’s spectral type and luminosity class (the MK classification). (At least that seems to be the general rule; there may be exceptions.) Unfortunately, the luminosity class for Alnilam a.k.a. Epsilon Orionis is dead wrong: it is given in the game as class V (main sequence), while it should be class I (supergiant). As a result, the star is a lot dimmer in the game than in reality.

I guess what happened here is that FDEV merged data from various sources, and the source of the MK spectral classification for Alnilam contained a clerical error. (There is some possibility it might have contained outdated information, but I doubt it; AFAIK Alnilam was known to be too far away to be a main sequence star for quite a long time.) Unfortunately, no one at FDEV thought of cross-checking imported stars’ classifications and distances (both of which are often quite uncertain) with their apparent magnitudes (which are directly measurable and thus known to very good precision).

Don’t misunderstand me; I, too, am impressed by the amount of work FDEV put into creating a realistic model of the galaxy we live in (especially in comparison to most of space fiction I’ve seen). That, however, did not save them from making a couple of rather egregious mistakes. Maybe some day someone will compile a list of astronomical mistakes in E:D — I have a few more items for such a list, but very little time to even lurk at the forums, alas.