Missing rings?
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Is that a black hole at the centre of the system? Rings are lit from the primary star i believe (in game) and as black holes emit no light, things are dark. The only reason you can see that brown dwarf is because it lights itself.
On a similar note, i have flown into rings that i couldn't see before, but they were there and visible from a different angle, just not very well defined.
On a similar note, i have flown into rings that i couldn't see before, but they were there and visible from a different angle, just not very well defined.
Black hole emitting light ( it's unrealistic. ) Just enough to see anything. I should see them because of yellow ( i'm above galaxy core ) skybox.
I can see other rings ( in other blackhole centered systems ). I saw similar thing in other system. First and second ring were visible, but third was nowhere.
Which is stupid. The rings are lit from the black hole. But the brown dwarf you can see because it gives off light. BUt the brown dwarfs light does not light its own rings.
They should fix this and call it a bug
Very large rings can sometimes be so diffuse that they don't show up at all but be careful around them because you can still crash into them even though you can't see them!
The ring you have found there is both larger and heavier than any single ring previously recorded according to the Universal Cartographics Galactic Record Breakers book which is linked to from the thread ( https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=50952 ) so its worth posting the details of this very interesting find in that thread.
The ring you have found there is both larger and heavier than any single ring previously recorded according to the Universal Cartographics Galactic Record Breakers book which is linked to from the thread ( https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=50952 ) so its worth posting the details of this very interesting find in that thread.
Exactly! However, extrapolating my experience, I would say that with this mass it should be barely visible at its size and, perhaps I am imagining things, it seems to me that I see traces of it on the picture AveMe provided but the Galaxy is too bright to be seen better. See here (the ring is almost invisible with the Galaxy disk in the background):
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I am not sure what you are saying - which ring wasn't on the system map? And what it has to do with my picture? Are you saying that your ring from the above post is the same as mine (mine is around a gas giant and yours looks like around a brown dwarf)? It looks much denser (it's almost as dense as parts of the "internal ring" there). Look how faint mine is (in comparison to the "internal ring") and it's the most massive planetar ring reported (it's HR 5397 A 8 B Ring from this post and it obviously was visible on the system map as I had it pictured there). If it's the same then it seems like they've changed how it looks - perhaps they've tried to make such rings more visible, generally.
Anyway, my point is that with faint enourmous rings you shouldn't have the Galaxy disk in the background because you will probably not see them, then. Your OP ring is over 3x larger and has only 2x as much mass so I think that with similar lightning it should be much fainter but still visible - it's difficult to compare, though, how much light it gets (and reflects - such rings are too diffuse to absorb enough light as to make their backgound visually fainter) so perhaps it really can't be seen.
Anyway, my point is that with faint enourmous rings you shouldn't have the Galaxy disk in the background because you will probably not see them, then. Your OP ring is over 3x larger and has only 2x as much mass so I think that with similar lightning it should be much fainter but still visible - it's difficult to compare, though, how much light it gets (and reflects - such rings are too diffuse to absorb enough light as to make their backgound visually fainter) so perhaps it really can't be seen.
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