My ridiculous exploration trip + Top of centre of galaxy

Alex Brentnall · May 2, 2015

Reached 3rd exploration goal of 11 and thought I'd get my own thread started since it seems to be the thing to do for those who want to up their ego

Notes: SPOILERS!
Time & Distance is cumulative.

Target 1: Sagittarius A, centre of galaxy (Est time 30hrs, distance 25,831LY):

Target 2: QUEMEOU AQ-Y D11, as up as up goes from Sag A. I saw 2 stars above, both outside my jump range. (Est time: 33 hrs, distance: 29,014LY)

Up looks good, plenty of pitch black as expected.

Down however wasn't great, I wanted to see spiral arms, faint glimmers of nebulae or black holes. All it really is is a paste of white in a vague circle.
Ah well, was only 2800LY and got some exploration data. On to the remaining 9 places.

Target 3: PHEIA AUSCS AA-A D11 Nebula. (Est Time 44 hrs, distance: 38,640LY)

Target 4: HYPIO PRAO AA-A H16 Nebula (Est Time 46 hrs, distance 40,440LY)

Target 5: EORL AUWSY AA-A H72 Nebula (Est time 52 hrs, distance 46,970LY)

no, no no no noooooooo!!!

Target 6: DRYI AOC AA-A H60 Nebula (Est time 54 hrs, distance 49,230LY)

I see a nebula from this nebula... Yo dawg, I heard you like nebula.

Target 7: GREAE PHIO AA-A H33 Nebula (Est time 57 hrs, distance 52,085LY)

Target 8: FROARKS AA-A H22 (Est time 60hrs, distance 55,265LY)

On the way in

Inside

Target 9: BLEAE AEWSY AA-A H22 Nebula (Est time 64 hrs, distance 59,185LY)

Getting the "Close to home" feeling!

Target 10: NGC 6357 Nebula (Est time 68 hrs, distance 63,265LY)

I wonder what it tastes like?

Target 11: CAT'S PAW Nebula (Est time 71 hrs, distance 65,965 LY)

Not seeing the paw but I could lack imagination...

Target 12: Home!

(Est time: 76hrs, distance 71,340LY) -> See totals on post #22.

Getting a bit bored of Nebula at target 7. Still amazing but no longer quite as epic as the first few.
Not seen a human or NPC player since my first 34LY jump out of the Lave area despite being in open at all times.

Some screens of my path through:

Heat diffusers on Asp

Anyone know if you can visit that wormhole type thing or is it background skybox? - Answered

Icy planet locked in a close rotation with the sun leaving "vein rivers around its equator"

Bluetiful blue/purple B class star... forgive me...

Stop off at a mini-nebula black hole on the way:

ASP interior due to a bug when taking HD screenshots in hypercruise

A very blurry earth world super-hurricane, caught as I was flying by in supercruise.

Binary unexplored earth likes (bottom right, I wanted to get the nebula in shot). System map to follow handing in of data.

Eclipse, what eclipse?

Will continue to update but as you may tell im selective in what I screenshot.

iain666 · May 2, 2015

Wormhole type thing?

I can see a load of stars, a couple of other galaxies (you can't go there) and a moderately close nebula (you can go there).

Alex Brentnall · May 2, 2015

iain666 said:
Wormhole type thing?

I can see a load of stars, a couple of other galaxies (you can't go there) and a moderately close nebula (you can go there).

Sorry, should have been clearer, I was talking about this object, I assumed you can't go there:

iain666 · May 3, 2015

Yeah, that's another galaxy (or so I am assuming since (a) it looks like one and (b) I can see it from where I am closer to the rim, it's in a rimwards direction and it's relative position has barely shifted in the last 7 kylies so it's a *long* way off...)

I'm in between NGC 281 and Heart nebulae, about 7000ly from Sol, and presumably at least 30,000ly from where you are if you're near the core.

It's in the same place relative to the other thing I'm calling another galaxy as in your picture - those things are too far away to be anything else.

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Alex Brentnall · May 3, 2015

Thanks, what I expected... Its a shame really, it looks like an awesome place. I imagined it as a supersize star being sucked into a wormhole in my head..

Kancro Vantas · May 3, 2015

Awesome trip!! Btw, if in target 4 you see my name...let me know! Lol. Was there last expedition.

And yes, thats a galaxy. If Im not mistaken, is Andromeda. Weird looking though but I think it is.

iain666 · May 3, 2015

It does look quite like Andromeda, and it's in the right direction. So it probably is.

Dolph · May 3, 2015

iain666 said:
It does look quite like Andromeda, and it's in the right direction. So it probably is.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...pg/1920px-Andromeda_Galaxy_(with_h-alpha).jpg

I always wanted to know what that was! Thanks

janmb · May 4, 2015

Visited Cat's Paw yesterday. Looks great from distance and close vicinity, but the nebula itself is less than impressive tbh. Very few starts inside and I frankly had a very hard time finding any spectacular views inside it at all. Have had far better luck with other nebulae, such as Maia for example.

dognosh · May 4, 2015

Great thread, adding to my lists thread

EdzUp · May 4, 2015

Well that is my target ship a lovely Asp

Gonna get out there as soon as I get the creds for a decent ship, and load out. Who knows when and if they add station building the galaxy will be a smaller place

iain666 · May 4, 2015

You don't need to wait for an ASP, you can get out there with a Cobra. A couple of mill for ADS and A class FSD, D for everything else my max jump range is just over 26ly and I'm currently 7.6kly from Sol approaching the Heart nebula (my original destination) from the far side because I'm basically a nebula-magpie and kept going 'ooh, shiny, let's go over there first'.

Alex Brentnall · May 5, 2015

Ah man, Im about 1 hour away from Target #3 but I've just seen the 15% discount on the Zaonce community goal and am very tempted to trip back for a cheap Anaconda after target #4. It could save me 25mil Cr...

Need 125mil for it, I have 80mil + the exploration data so could sell my 21mil Asp and probably get one with a few mil to spare.
Do a bit of bounty hunting in my Clipper which is parked next door and outfit the Conda for exploration to complete the trip. Thoughts people?

Edit: Seen a trip to Sag A and back alone net 30mil. If I can get around 50mil from my data I may even be able to buy outright and not have to sell my ASP which would be ace.

EdzUp · May 5, 2015

iain666 said:
You don't need to wait for an ASP, you can get out there with a Cobra. A couple of mill for ADS and A class FSD, D for everything else my max jump range is just over 26ly and I'm currently 7.6kly from Sol approaching the Heart nebula (my original destination) from the far side because I'm basically a nebula-magpie and kept going 'ooh, shiny, let's go over there first'.

Well I'm in a stock Adder atm but planning on a Asp or Cobra

Whiterose · May 5, 2015

My next exploration trip will be in a cargo canister.....I will title it "Extreme exploring".

Alex Brentnall · May 5, 2015

Whiterose said:
My next exploration trip will be in a cargo canister.....I will title it "Extreme exploring".

You should totally do a sarcasm thread with this. Take a cargo rack with some containers and drop them and use the external camera to screenshot them as if they're your ship!

Whiterose · May 5, 2015

Alex Brentnall said:
You should totally do a sarcasm thread with this. Take a cargo rack with some containers and drop them and use the external camera to screenshot them as if they're your ship!

lol, you are giving me ideas now....IO would have to have a cargo scoop as well to pick up the canister.

PanicButton · May 5, 2015

Alternative idea: Companion canister

We could call him Wilson. He'd be the first canister to reach the center of the galaxy

PanicButton · May 5, 2015

Alex Brentnall said:
Down however wasn't great, I wanted to see spiral arms, faint glimmers of nebulae or black holes. All it really is is a paste of white in a vague circle.
Ah well, was only 2800LY and got some exploration data. On to the remaining 9 places.

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I suppose you can't get much higher than that, huh?....it's still a nice view!

Off: no way to delete/merge posts?

Alex Brentnall · May 5, 2015

PanicButton said:
I suppose you can't get much higher than that, huh?....it's still a nice view!

Off: no way to delete/merge posts?

Yeah, I've only just found out about the alt+F10 combo for Hd screenshots so would have to go back to do it.
I'm already planning a trip to the outer ring that may include a "top of the galaxy" screenshot but that would be August/September time so quite a while away.

Nope, no deleting or merging, don't worry about it I tend to edit things in (as I am now)

Edit:

#3 & #4 targets reached!!

janmb said:
Visited Cat's Paw yesterday. Looks great from distance and close vicinity, but the nebula itself is less than impressive tbh. Very few starts inside and I frankly had a very hard time finding any spectacular views inside it at all. Have had far better luck with other nebulae, such as Maia for example.

Check out my #3 from the Pheia Nebula. Think thats more the awesome you're after. It is a long long way there though. It seems you get much better pictures if you fly away from the star for a while, colours become much brighter

Also as a side note on HD screenshots, it appears their only available in Solo at the moment and I like to play open for that (very small) chance of meeting a fellow explorer. If you like what you see and want a desktop background then head there yourself or post a request to someone who can go take a few HD ones

Further note: Changed one target to two closer ones making the overall route shorter (Aiming to be back in time for Anaconda discount that ends in 13 days).