Post your weird systems!
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These aren't that rare, but nice T6 you have CMDR.
Thanks! We've been trucking along for a couple of days together on my first real expedition, headed outwards towards the edge steering clear of anything of significance. I made it about 2200ly out before regretting not bringing my buggy. Anyway, what constitutes "close", then? 5Mm is the closest I've seen and it looked pretty damn weird.
Here's a pretty picture of three suns in pretty close proximity.
Somebody forgot to tell the Stellar Forge about Roche limits:
The Roche limit is the minimum distance to which a large satellite can approach its primary body without being torn apart by tidal forces. If satellite and primary are of similar composition, the theoretical limit is about 2½ times the radius of the larger body.
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I landed on a 20mm ice giant with an eccentric orbit (0.9 or so) one week ago, and stayed put until it passed by about 2-3 ls away from the its L star. I even made a gif which was deleted (?) from makeagif.com... I will try to remake it at home, it was quite a spectacle - but not very realistic.
Parts of the planet were glitched and glowing red from orbit.
I landed on a 20mm ice giant with an eccentric orbit (0.9 or so) one week ago, and stayed put until it passed by about 2-3 ls away from the its L star. I even made a gif which was deleted (?) from makeagif.com... I will try to remake it at home, it was quite a spectacle - but not very realistic.
Parts of the planet were glitched and glowing red from orbit.
Please do, sounds fantastic. And yes 20mm is a bit small
An Earth-like co-orbiting a ringed Gas Giant. Oddity?
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There's a thread listing all the largest planets found. you should totally report this one to it
I didn't get the overall system pictures but I did take photos of awesome sites during my travels to beagle this past week.
Ringed Herbig star
Herbig and O type in Binary
Very tight Trinary
Class V Gas Giant 3.87LS away from the main star
Ringed Herbig star
Herbig and O type in Binary
Very tight Trinary
Class V Gas Giant 3.87LS away from the main star
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Please do, sounds fantastic. And yes 20mm is a bit small
Here it comes.
So this was the approach:
And this is the flyby:
Pretty dramatic! Note, that the rocks were glowing red at a mere 1.4 ls away from the star.
Between the approach and flyby about 10 hours passed, I left the machine running the whole night. I woke up around 6 Sunday morning to witness it, but -unfortunately- the auto screenshot didn't work I set up before going to bed.
Edit: the glitched surface:
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Congratulations, that picture is great.
The system isn't that weird, but the feeling is very weird when you realize that the three stars have aligned:
I certainly haven't seen anything like this...
I want one of those!
And relatively close to each other, managed to make an image with all of them on a single screen, clearly visible.