Those close binary planets are fun. And you can catch some spectacular looking eclipses on them.And here's another pair of rocky bodies I ran across today, orbiting so close to each other their OC boundaries are within each other. Both had Geo POIs. I seem to be running into a lot of these lately.
Not so spectacular, but interesting finds. :)
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I went through some old pictures and didn't find a discovery but sth. interesting nonetheless.
THIS …
… should not have happened. Or am i wrong?
Literally in the last moment I was aware of that fact and made a screenshot.
THIS …
… should not have happened. Or am i wrong?
Literally in the last moment I was aware of that fact and made a screenshot.
What paintjob? Dings... dents... scrapes... general sandblastings...I like your paintjob!
That indeed would make for a hard landing.
Found this ringed T Tauri and its moons orbiting a B star. That isn't all that exciting in itself, but what I found kind of cool was the outermost moon. Its orbital inclination was some 78° and it was almost directly below the main body..
..which gave me a pretty stellar view of the Tauri and its ring from the surface.
..which gave me a pretty stellar view of the Tauri and its ring from the surface.
Oh, and the moon had little rings of its own, as well. Which was nice.
In my wanderings this evening I found 3 WWs, 2 of which I saw had islands. I wonder if, in the future, we'll have the ability to land on such worlds... would be very cool.
I also ran across a RWW, the system of which had been previously discovered by someone else. After FSS and heading out to DSS the RWW (which hadn't been), I also visited the 2 HMCs in the system and DSSd them as well (also had not been)... both of them yielded Geo POIs, despite the FSS finding nothing.
I also ran across a RWW, the system of which had been previously discovered by someone else. After FSS and heading out to DSS the RWW (which hadn't been), I also visited the 2 HMCs in the system and DSSd them as well (also had not been)... both of them yielded Geo POIs, despite the FSS finding nothing.
Reminds me, just 2 or 3 days ago I stumbled over three actually four T-Tauri orbiting some blue-whites:
Three stars, each with their own class V gas giant (Click to enlarge)
I found that kind of interesting...
Three stars, each with their own class V gas giant (Click to enlarge)
I found that kind of interesting...
I would think that could be classified as a globular cluster. There are many in the Milky Way, and I'd been wondering if they were represented in the game.
This is one thing I've been waiting for: Two neutron stars close to each other. As a bonus, I got a free black hole thrown in:
The bright spot next to the left neutron star is the black hole, which is also this system's primary stellar object
Here, the black hole and the left neutron star are closely orbiting a common barycenter, whereas the right neutron star is orbiting the two of them. Not overly spectactular, but one more thing to scratch off my list of things to discover.
And this:
Islands on an airless water world
This is another "impossible" water world with no atmosphere. By now I've found quite a few of them (7 or 8 in total), so they're not that spectacular anymore. This time, it was pretty well-lit though. The planet followed the same pattern for airless water worlds once again. Large at 14049km radius, massive at ~10 M⨁, somewhat high-g with 2.09g, and a relatively low temperature of 208K.
Here, the black hole and the left neutron star are closely orbiting a common barycenter, whereas the right neutron star is orbiting the two of them. Not overly spectactular, but one more thing to scratch off my list of things to discover.
And this:
This is another "impossible" water world with no atmosphere. By now I've found quite a few of them (7 or 8 in total), so they're not that spectacular anymore. This time, it was pretty well-lit though. The planet followed the same pattern for airless water worlds once again. Large at 14049km radius, massive at ~10 M⨁, somewhat high-g with 2.09g, and a relatively low temperature of 208K.
Found this gorgeous ringed GG the other day.
The name if this pilot
Here is a Water world with atmospheric pressure of 0.00 atm (i.e. literally non-existant). It is terraformable.
I saw several terraformable HMCs without atmosphere (I love to use them as a good resting point when I want to go offline), but not into a WW literally without atmosphere as terraforming candidate...
I saw several terraformable HMCs without atmosphere (I love to use them as a good resting point when I want to go offline), but not into a WW literally without atmosphere as terraforming candidate...
Hooh, haven't seen any terraformable WW without atmosphere either.. and I' paying specific attention to those worlds. Nice find!
Edit: Ah, but this one does still have an atmosphere, just with very low pressure...
Edit: Ah, but this one does still have an atmosphere, just with very low pressure...
You might laugh, hat was my first thought when I FSS'd that system and saw the 0.00 atm. But then I realized: It is still an atmosphere, like you said...
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The system map isn't perfect when reporting values. Like it's the same for closely orbiting bodies, you'd sometimes see the semi-major axis (die große Halbachse) being reported at 0.00au. Instead, it should report the value in Ls or Mm. Same for the pressure. It should just display a millibar value instead of 0.00. Or maybe give us more digits after the comma.
As it is now, the only way to get the real pressure level is to dig it out of your journal files...
As it is now, the only way to get the real pressure level is to dig it out of your journal files...
Yeah, if you have a pressure of something like 0.004, then it will display as 0.00, since it only shows to two decimal places. For comparison, the present day real-world Mars has a pressure of about 0.006. It's closer to being a vacuum than something we would think of as a normal atmosphere, and yet it's enough of an atmosphere that it has weather and a visible sky.
Something I never remember to check is whether the game does normal numerical rounding, or if it always rounds down (truncation). And then you get into the question of whether it rounds toward zero, or does a "floor" operation, on negative numbers. (obviously not for pressure, but for things like axial tilt, etc)
Something I never remember to check is whether the game does normal numerical rounding, or if it always rounds down (truncation). And then you get into the question of whether it rounds toward zero, or does a "floor" operation, on negative numbers. (obviously not for pressure, but for things like axial tilt, etc)
Blau Eur YE-R E4-38 2 A is a geologically active moon orbiting a lava world. The purple and yellow color of the moon are greatly enhanced by the system’s brilliant B-class blue star.
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A ringed AW I ran across. It was discovered by someone else, but I thought it worthy a look.
Parked for the night. Had been SRV'ing around collecting mats, but it got dark on me quickly. I took a look skyward and discovered why ... I'm in the eclipse shadow of a minor moon (I'd visited it earlier, it's above, not in the picture). Tomorrow is another day.
Parked for the night. Had been SRV'ing around collecting mats, but it got dark on me quickly. I took a look skyward and discovered why ... I'm in the eclipse shadow of a minor moon (I'd visited it earlier, it's above, not in the picture). Tomorrow is another day.