Guide / Tutorial Nutter’s explorers guide to the Galaxy

how do I get to some of these places that are thousands of light years away? it says route unavailable. I just built up a cobra for exploring getting 25 ly jump distance. is it possible to get to those places?
 
how do I get to some of these places that are thousands of light years away? it says route unavailable. I just built up a cobra for exploring getting 25 ly jump distance. is it possible to get to those places?

The galaxy map can only plot routes up to 1,000ly. You have to do it in stages. i meander from nebula to nebula on my way to the core.
 
What I do is select the target I want to visit. I then swing the view so my current location is behind me. I then flick the scroll wheel until both the orange and blue pins appear. Then line up the two pins and scroll forward. Pick a star <1K ly towards your destination. There are locations that are very barren on scoopable stars so keep an eye on fuel and be prepared to travel at economic to eke out your fuel.
 
Is this a new thing? Neutron stars appear to be doing light-bending as well as black holes. This one's only 1 solar mass, but it's doing it. Woot!

Maybe I'm too close.

Edit: I wonder if it's a bug. This is a system with a black hole and 2 neutron stars; everything is warping light. I haven't noticed neutron stars warping light in other systems.
 
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What I do is select the target I want to visit. I then swing the view so my current location is behind me. I then flick the scroll wheel until both the orange and blue pins appear. Then line up the two pins and scroll forward. Pick a star <1K ly towards your destination. There are locations that are very barren on scoopable stars so keep an eye on fuel and be prepared to travel at economic to eke out your fuel.
I had to do that recently. switch to economic to look for fuel when I got closer to home.
 
Is this a new thing? Neutron stars appear to be doing light-bending as well as black holes. This one's only 1 solar mass, but it's doing it. Woot!

Maybe I'm too close.

Edit: I wonder if it's a bug. This is a system with a black hole and 2 neutron stars; everything is warping light. I haven't noticed neutron stars warping light in other systems.

Not quite a new thing, it was introduced in a patch about a month ago I think. White dwarves also bend light.
 
It would be really nice if this wonderful thread could be translated (or at least copied) to the new Exploration forum, in order to provide new explorers with a good information source for our duties.
 
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=135745&p=2084633#post2084633
my dad is looking for a star he had named. how would he best go about this?



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my dad is looking for a star he had named. how would he best go about this?

for some reason my text didn't show up. that is a post my father made hes looking for a star he had named many years ago. how would he best go about this? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
Hello again to all the other Explorers. While i was looking through the Forum i found this little gem of a picture. It might be very helpfull when you target a planet. They are the HUD Displays of the different Suns and Planets.

Holo-Icons.jpg

Credits go to Cmdr Dognosh for collecting this Info and creating the Picture. :)
 
Looks like we need more holograms for different planet types. Nice to know there are different holograms for most of the gas giants. Good work . Rep +1
 
I have never tried to explore beyond colonized space, but I feel the time has come.

I ask you, professional explorers, if you have any advice for me, regarding what should I be careful about in my long distance journeys? Besides what's written in the guide, ofc, like binary stars and the like. I'm more interested in wear and tear and these kind of problems that I didn't care about while exploring in civilized space.
 
Always throttle back to 0 when the countdown starts.

Make sure to check that you don't fly into a companion start on the galaxy map before jumping.

Have fun.

Z...
 
Nope, pretty much the same. You want the lightest of everything, just enough power to make it all work, and the biggest, baddest fuel scoop nd FSD you rmoney can buy.

Shields are optional, weapons pointless, and make sure you have a DSS and advanced discovery scanner, otherwise, you are wasting your time if it's a long term/range trip.

Z...
 
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