Hello ED community and devs! This is my first post so please be gentle. A while back (near-ish Odyssey release) I did some looking for Tabby's Star in Elite. I did not find it and I checked some other posts and others also did not:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/tabbys-star-in-elites-galaxy.508807/
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/where-is-tabbys-star-in-the-elite-galaxy.369819/
Since I did not find it via searches I decided to take it upon myself to find the closest match I could that does exist. Lots of time staring at the ED sky looking for the perfect match to the location in the sky matching the constellations from Sol later....and I got it down to 3 candidate systems which are all within 3 LY of the actual known distance in real life and which all are of the correct star type (Class F and/or M).
The actual system is a Binary with a F3V (KIC 8462852 A) and M2V (KIC 8462852 B) spectral types that is 1470 LY from Sol. Source
The candidate systems are:
SIFI BN-W B2-1
1473 LY from Sol - M2 VA: +3 LY, only 1 star but a perfect match to the spectral type of the B star.
SIFI KK-A D3
1471 LY from Sol - F0 VZ, TTSO V8, TTS1 VA: +1 LY, trinary and only slight match of the class F for the A star.
SIFI PQ-Y D19
1467 LY from Sol - F3 VI, K6 VA, M6 VA: -3LY, trinary but has both a class F3V and class M star. There is an extra class K but it's as close as we're going to get in terms of spectral matches.
Attached are images of the 3 systems viewed from Sol (for those interested in seeing for themselves how close they are to matching the real thing if you don't have the Sol Permit). I don't have the know-how to use the more precise ascension and declination to see which of the three is truly the closest match. I think it would be cool if Frontier renamed one of these systems to either its KIC designation or to "Tabby's Star" outright. I understand that adding systems is a lot harder and so I think renaming one of these procedurally generated names would be much easier to achieve the same effect. If the devs want to also add some kind of nod to the dust that is thought to cause the dimming effect that would also be cool - maybe a massive asteroid belt in the system for example (I have no idea how hard that would be to change though).
I decided to wait to post for a while since Odyssey was clearly a much more mission critical thing to address and needed all hands on deck rather than spend time on some star renaming.
Cheers!
Perm
Edit: the screenshots don't seem to want to work for me at the moment, so here is a link to imgur: Source: https://imgur.com/a/6dUgodu
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/tabbys-star-in-elites-galaxy.508807/
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/where-is-tabbys-star-in-the-elite-galaxy.369819/
Since I did not find it via searches I decided to take it upon myself to find the closest match I could that does exist. Lots of time staring at the ED sky looking for the perfect match to the location in the sky matching the constellations from Sol later....and I got it down to 3 candidate systems which are all within 3 LY of the actual known distance in real life and which all are of the correct star type (Class F and/or M).
The actual system is a Binary with a F3V (KIC 8462852 A) and M2V (KIC 8462852 B) spectral types that is 1470 LY from Sol. Source
The candidate systems are:
SIFI BN-W B2-1
1473 LY from Sol - M2 VA: +3 LY, only 1 star but a perfect match to the spectral type of the B star.
SIFI KK-A D3
1471 LY from Sol - F0 VZ, TTSO V8, TTS1 VA: +1 LY, trinary and only slight match of the class F for the A star.
SIFI PQ-Y D19
1467 LY from Sol - F3 VI, K6 VA, M6 VA: -3LY, trinary but has both a class F3V and class M star. There is an extra class K but it's as close as we're going to get in terms of spectral matches.
Attached are images of the 3 systems viewed from Sol (for those interested in seeing for themselves how close they are to matching the real thing if you don't have the Sol Permit). I don't have the know-how to use the more precise ascension and declination to see which of the three is truly the closest match. I think it would be cool if Frontier renamed one of these systems to either its KIC designation or to "Tabby's Star" outright. I understand that adding systems is a lot harder and so I think renaming one of these procedurally generated names would be much easier to achieve the same effect. If the devs want to also add some kind of nod to the dust that is thought to cause the dimming effect that would also be cool - maybe a massive asteroid belt in the system for example (I have no idea how hard that would be to change though).
I decided to wait to post for a while since Odyssey was clearly a much more mission critical thing to address and needed all hands on deck rather than spend time on some star renaming.
Cheers!
Perm
Edit: the screenshots don't seem to want to work for me at the moment, so here is a link to imgur: Source: https://imgur.com/a/6dUgodu
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