Sagittarius A* local sight seeing.

[GrillMonkey]

I'm only 4.5K LY away from Sagittarius A* and was planning on staying in the core for a while after I get there to do some scanning.

Does anyone have any recommendations of systems that are a must-see in the area (up to 2K LYs away)?

 

[Raiko]

Great Annihilator is 3000LY "South" of Sag A*.

It's the second biggest known Black Hole in the galaxy, and although it's more than your specified 2000LY it's probably only a short detour from your current location.

Take a look at the community mapping project

 

[Anuranium]

The Great Annihalator. Also I recommend you to go all the way you can upwards or downwards, the view is amazing

 

[GrillMonkey]

Great Annihilator is 3000LY "South" of Sag A*.

It's the second biggest known Black Hole in the galaxy, and although it's more than your specified 2000LY it's probably only a short detour from your current location.

Take a look at the community mapping project

3000 is fine

When you say "south" I assume you mean back towards occupied space and not downwards

The Great Annihalator. Also I recommend you to go all the way you can upwards or downwards, the view is amazing

I plotted my route from occupied space to be 1000ly downwards, to see all the neutron stars and (not?) see all the blackholes My route back will be 1000ly upwards.

 

[Lance Corrimal]

ok, i might be outing myself as stupid now... how exactly do you get to Sag A*? As in, what's the closest "plottable waypoint"? It does not show up on the map when I search for it...

 

[DiddleDum]

ok, i might be outing myself as stupid now... how exactly do you get to Sag A*? As in, what's the closest "plottable waypoint"? It does not show up on the map when I search for it...

I found it by typing "sag" in the navigation box. It'll find it right away. Same with "great"... takes you to the Great Annihilator.

 

[iain666]

ok, i might be outing myself as stupid now... how exactly do you get to Sag A*? As in, what's the closest "plottable waypoint"? It does not show up on the map when I search for it...

The search box doesn't do wild cards or like searches...

So either just search for SAG to cycle through systems starting in SAG (as noted above Sag A* is first) or type the full name - SAGITTARIUS A*

 

[GrillMonkey]

I found in 1.3 SAG doesn't get there first go any more but typing SAGIT will get you there first go.

 

[Lance Corrimal]

:facepalm: thanks. I mis-spelled it.

 

[Raiko]

3000 is fine

When you say "south" I assume you mean back towards occupied space and not downwards.

Yes I mean back towards Sol. Great Annihilator is actually "galactic south-east" from Sag A*, I can't remember whether it's above or below the galactic plane though.

 

[Zelos1983]

If you enter the full name, star chart will find it.
Due to bugs in the window manager and applications, sometimes blanks get copy/pasted, so watch out for these - then it doesn't work.

BTW, thanks for the tip with the Great Annihilator - I'm about 10k LY away from Sagittarius A*, now that the servers work. Just breaking in my DBE ;-).