Recommendations for places to visit / sights to see?

[karamu]

As the title says, I'm looking for suggestions for good places to go in the galaxy - picturesque nebulae, black holes, that kind of thing.

Context: I'm a PS4 player and while I'm going to continue playing the game for as long as I can, I'm realistic enough to accept that it will not be an indefinite length of time. So, I would like to see as many highlights of the galaxy as possible. I have a carrier and a few explorer ships with long distance jump abilities.

(I've been to Sag A and am planning a return trip.)

 

[Zieman]

"World of death":

Challenge to land on the world of death

On a recent trip I found this White Dwarf system- SPOIHAAE XE-X D2-9 where a landable metal rich world is in close orbit.It has an elliptical orbit of roughly one hour.At it's far point is 2.5ls from WD but at perihelion (near point) comes to a deadly 0.06ls in! also,looking at the orbit, the...

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[Rock Hunter]

Skaude AA-A h294 known as Collection of Wonders. I’m still hoping to First Discover something similar, despite knowing it’s very, very unlikely.

“This incredible system (also known as 'Collection of Wonders') contains two black holes, a ringed M-class star, a ringed white dwarf, and a ringed neutron star. The M-class star is one of the largest known stellar bodies containing a ring system. A tourist beacon is set up near the M-class star.” - EDSM

 

[d8veh]

The most poplular sight in the game by a rather substantial margin is the Sirius Atmospherics beacon. It didn't look particularly inspiring to me, but 50,000 commanders can't be wrong. Maybe I was looking at it from the wrong angle.

 

[Rock Hunter]

The most poplular sight in the game by a rather substantial margin is the Sirius Atmospherics beacon. It didn't look particularly inspiring to me, but 50,000 commanders can't be wrong. Maybe I was looking at it from the wrong angle.

So good they just keep going back. Well played, sir, well played.

 

[Alec Turner]

Check out the whole playlist, a whole series of videos on the best places to visit, going further and further afield.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vACrwJku7XI&list=PLHY2YY56tCsg4FImisS1K-MOTPc6lS1Sz

And one other recommendation ... plan yourself a sightseeing trip to Colonia (not rushing to get there but making it a complete journey with much to see along the way, and saving stuff for the journey back too.

Here's my take on that, a really awesome trip and definitely up there among my Elite: Dangerous highlights.

Going to Colonia

My journey to Colonia and back is now complete. You can read the journal entries from each of the 46 days I spent on this incredible voyage of discovery by following the links below. If you scroll down past these links you'll find the original forum post where I gathered information about the...

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[Jack Winter]

Check out Mount Nerverest on Nervi 3A, supposedly the biggest mountain in the galaxy.

 

[Lyla]

One sight-seeing project I recommend every CMDR to do is visiting all the known generation ships. There are now 16 of them, the Golconda being the latest one.

All those ships are well inside the bubble, no further than 300ly from Sol. Go there, scan the ship, download all the voice logs and learn what happened to them. Just... don't expect too many happy endings.

Originally there was a bit of a puzzle involved, where you needed to scan listening posts and follow clues through different systems to find the ship. This is still possible to do but I wouldn't bother. Just look up the generation ship location list on the ED wiki and pay each one of them a visit.

 

[Thulean]

I have spent a considerable amount of time exploring almost the entire Bubble in search of the most visually stunning bum-of-nowhere yet populated and infrastructured locations that have not even remotely been reported or mentioned anywhere. Places that would make the most beautiful home systems of which I have eventually constructed an entire network for my CMDR´s long-standing narrative. And just like every other maniac that desires to get caught, I was thinking of compiling an illustrated list of these to share, eventually. However, given the recurring perceived notion of "my fleet carrier is my home", or "I´m from Shinrarta/Ohm City/other third-world system", or "I live where it pays good credits" all make me think that it would not be a very popular topic and hence rather a waste of my own time and effort. Meanwhile, if that´s your thing CMDR, you can check out my thread on neighbouring surface bases since it is complete for the most part albeit a tad bit difficult to read and follow (Horizons only).

 

[wrr377]

Mitterand Hollow in Epsilon Indi. It is a moon that orbits it's planet so fast that the planet rises and falls on opposite horizons in literally a minute or two.

Great place for getting screenshots of your landed craft with a planet in the background. Also a pain to land on, and take off from - you have to get in it's orbital pathway and let the moon orbit towards you because you can't catch it in SC! Then when you want to leave, you have to figure out a trajectory pointed away from the planet, or else you'll never get out of it's gravity well...

 

[Wobblin-Gobblin]

CSI-12-17112 (Box Nebula)​

Great system with a nebula with a wolf-rayet-star inside. Glows in red and blue. But be careful, you need great jump-range (~75Lys) + 3xFSB to reach and to leave the system again.