New astronomical objects

[speedysteve1980]

Guys,

Couple of questions. I'm flying around a few fairly central populated systems trading and I've picked up 4 "new astronomical objects found" messages. First question is are these really new stars that no one has ever detected and scanned before? I was surprised if so.

Secondly any idea how many of the 400 billion systems are classed as known and populated? Is it easy to get out into unknown space? I'm near sol at present. Am just wondering how many players are out there exploring....

Thanks

 

[Waldi]

No they are just not loaded in your nav computer but you can sell it to systems over 20ly away. You can also buy the data on systems in the galaxy map

 

[InfiniteGremlins]

1. "New Astronomical Objects" means that it wasn't in your ship''s database. For explored stars, you can sometimes buy the astronomical data. Universal Cartographics will still buy updated scans, so its worth money even if you're not the absolute first.

2. There are somewhere between 20,000 - 30,000 inhabited systems. If you travel more than 500 or so lightyears from Sol you'll reach the edge of inhabited space. There's plenty of minor stars that are poorly surveyed in human space, so you can make money doing updated surveys there, but the major inhabited ones have obviously been pretty well cataloged.

 

[speedysteve1980]

Cool. Thanks guys. Appreciate it. I assume that if I sell the astro data I still keep the data and info in my system it's just I'm selling my 'knowledge' on?

Do you have any way of knowing which stars out there have never been surveyed or found before?