Great Stuff Raptargh for organising this thread.
I had plans to catalogue and gather data after that night shift to help the search , but i shall go into that in more detail after a good sleep with tomorrow off to continue as there is much to organise.
Locations so far, will gather them tomorrow , we have Enceldus which i have not visited yet. Actaea which has 3 known sites,, 2 fumers and 1 geyser. 1 small site in the pleiades nearby barnacles, the muddy burp fumer with green gas sometimes.
HR 8546 3c was the firey fumerole i found last night.
Gathering more info on that new site, i found the system map planet map was only useful as a general guide. 2 areas i noted from system map, but orbital cruise more sites were visible, most likely not visible on system map scale.
Locating new search area i quickly found another, but more on that in a second,, will sign off with that for the night.
Few ideas on gathering data. Was planning to gather images of each site with ,
1. Orbital screenshot before dropping to glide of area maybe useful,
2. 25km above site on planet, get a area view of the site, mark location on image.
3. 2km above the POI site. Get a idea of the size of each site and density and activity from visible erruptions. Fumeroles i thought were in a smaller area, but found others spread out over larger areas.
4. Close up of features, are they all the same type or is there variety.. Mainly i first presumed there were maybe one or two types, Fumeroles seemed round and muddy or 3 rocks in a ring. Geysers small round holes wet looking rock or mud.
5. Emission types and materials. Can vary on colour from site to site. Green grey yellow gasses seen, Water eruptions splashing all way up to geyser eruptions of water , firey gas emissions or firey sparks.
Materials seen so far Piceous Cobble, metal lumpy rock clump , can vary in colour from site to site. Crystal fragments/cluster Needle crystal, seen in green and grey so far.
6. So far also noted many areas have random POI nearby , Large old POI ( wrecks/buildings etc ), Medium sized POI , the small POI has often been nearby. Unsure if this is common or not, further reports from others please. Thinking that the persistant small fumerole/geyser POI may generate nearby random POI.
I am trying to be brief here as this was a quick run down of ideas i was thinking while at work.
Created this to give an idea of the small POI for fumeroles and geysers at range and close,, up to 5-6km they appear, height has no effect, they appear even at 16km but still need to be above and near them.
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Planned to check on other red dot site on HR 8546 to see if could confirm any other site there. That was less useful as i found more sites visible from orbital cruise. Picking one soon located something AMAZING>
Here is where we really dont give FD enough credit. We moan too much. Expect it all before beta has even finished.
The sneek peeks at elite meet showed Massive geysers like what people may expect on Enceldus, it seemed the SRV was even blasted upwards driving over it.
Until FD upload that and we can find the location and system from SRV cockpit which was visible , we will have to continue to search for these places.
What i presumed of Fumeroles was just blown out of the water when i found this. Chimneys,, larger fumerole site. It has blown me away in its awesomeness. The site seems quite dormant , grey smoke on occasion but what a sight.
Album of images collected at the 2 sites. a few from firey fumeroles and more from the chimney site.
http://imgur.com/a/l6ArE
Here is the best fumerole i've seen , and i think might be best i see for quite a while ,, spectacular. HR 8546 3c -86.5 44.7
[video=youtube_share;jCw_EbBY5xA]https://youtu.be/jCw_EbBY5xA[/video]
Enjoy, and back soon.
added: Video from last nights 1st site same planet,. firey fumeroles site. 98.0 -8.0
[video=youtube;pYmv1_2i7ww]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYmv1_2i7ww[/video]
