Tonight as I was exploring I came across a system with several gas giants in it. As is my habit, I always map any planetary rings that show up on my system map. My problem tonight is that the system map shows a planet as having rings, but for the life of me I cannot find/see said rings when I mapped the gas giant itself! You can see the first moon of the planet in the second screen shot, so logic would dictate that I SHOULD see the rings somewhere between the planet and the moon. I also moved around the planet just to make sure I wasn't at an angle where I was at the rings' edge
Missing planetary rings?
- Thread starter Venomhawk
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This is quite common, the density of the ring is so low it is invisible to the eye, however the are occasions where the ring is to thin to see but still thick enough to pull you out of SC, if you look around all you see is small rocks. So they are there.
There's a thread here about large rings and crashing into rings you can't see;
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There's a thread here about large rings and crashing into rings you can't see;
The largest rings
The following is data is provided with the hopes that people will go check these things out and take amazing pictures, submit to the GMP anything interesting. Top 10 Largest Rings - stars - (Max Outer Radius) (radius in km) Body Name isStar Body Type Ring Name Ring Type Ring Mass Inner...
I'll have to keep that in mind the next time I come across one of these, I didn't look at the Orrery view, so that may be the source of my issue, is it possible for the first moon to be between a planet and it's A ring?
I have never seen a moon between the A ring and the planet, but then I haven't been seriously looking, I am assuming Elite Observatory would alert me, but maybe it won't. Keep in mind that rings in the Orrery view will vanish if zoomed out to far, so really large rings that starts a long way from the star or planet can sometimes be hard to view, it may take a bit of fiddling around with zoom and angles, even focussing on one of the moons to give you a better position for viewing the ring.
And they exist in ED
Blae Flyuae OY-H d10-0
Scheau Byoe DB-U d4-1013
Wepae AA-A h22 (aka Mors et Vitae)
And they exist in ED
Blae Flyuae OY-H d10-0
Scheau Byoe DB-U d4-1013
Wepae AA-A h22 (aka Mors et Vitae)
and a few more.
Very nice, as I said I haven't really looked for them before, now has anyone seen moons between the B and C rings?
Lots.
So I looked up the system in the orrery view and figured out that the source of my problem was that this gas giant actually had 2 moons between the planet and the A ring, so I should have been looking a LOT farther away from the planet than I was. Thanks for this suggestion so I know what to do if I come across this again!
Thwarptide
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I have it happen on occasion. The most recent one was I was approaching a ringed planet with every intention of jump to the hires. I could lock onto the hires no problem. Visually the rings weren't there. Once I got to the hires...... Rocks and rings were visible.
a moon can be inside a ring. It's a shepherd moon and such moons exit in the game. Just cuz there is a moon doesn't meen there isn't a ring beyond the moon.
Elite Observatory reports shepherd moons so you know if they are there, however it's not perfect because it can't pick up binary moons between rings due to the way the journal reports them.