[screenshot] scary, but lucky, system entry

dognosh

dognosh
Please excuse the aspect ratio as I play on triple screens(cropped it as much as I can)

I have had many bum burns and emergency stops when entering a bi/tri system, this one however is an example of "woah !!! that was close but I got away with it" :x:eek::D

No damage, screenshot exactly where I entered as my throttle went from 100% to 0 in 3 picoseconds :D
(I am doing speed run in distant worlds hence using 100% throttle 100% of the time,including scooping)

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Jermus

Jermus
Glad you came out unharmed.

But do I see it correctly that there is a fourth one lurking out there? :eek:

Fly safe,
CMDR Jermus
(You most certainly did in this case...)
 

dognosh

dognosh
Yes, after my system locked up trying to access sys map :x and shutting ED and rebooting, I scanned the 4th one, which was also nearby :D
 

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
I had a extremely close double last night but one was directly behind the other when I entered the system, so I didn't notice it until I was scooping the first star...I do so at 100% throttle (always have) and was coming over the top of the first star when I saw the second...what the hell is that?? Manage to change course in time to avoid flying down between the two...no where near as close a call as your's Cmdr Dognosh but freaky.

Frawd
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
Yeah I have been hitting more close doubles lately. Maybe they are starting to degrade orbits and merge!! lol.

I have actually come out of witchspace between two stars and instantly started scooping no less than 3 times on my way to BP. This has never happened to me before in almost 10k jumps. Usually I get dumped out just out of range and can deflect to one side, but the FSD must be fritzy because I am starting off inside one corona and diving into the second. Usually without realizing it because one of the stars is just out of view behind me.

It's a fun little challenge, but not so deadly because I only hit about 110 heat. As long as I don't charge FSD inside the coronas, it's totally fine.
 

Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
Ziljan said:
Yeah I have been hitting more close doubles lately. Maybe they are starting to degrade orbits and merge!! lol.
I have actually come out of witchspace between two stars and instantly started scooping no less than 3 times on my way to BP. This has never happened to me before in almost 10k jumps. Usually I get dumped out just out of range and can deflect to one side, but the FSD must be fritzy because I am starting off inside one corona and diving into the second. Usually without realizing it because one of the stars is just out of view behind me.
It's a fun little challenge, but not so deadly because I only hit about 110 heat. As long as I don't charge FSD inside the coronas, it's totally fine.
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Hay Ziljan. Shouldn't these stars be tearing each other apart, being in such close proximity?

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Ziljan

Ziljan
Cmdr Frawd Digger said:
Hay Ziljan. Shouldn't these stars be tearing each other apart, being in such close proximity?

Frawd
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It depends. Stars in general are massive but not very dense, and they are also fluid objects. This means that their Roche limits are large, but not compared to their radius. For example, the Sun's Roche limit is about 1M km, but it's radius is about 0.7M km. So a donor star would have to be well inside its corona before it started to disintegrate.

Just eyeballing, most binaries appear to be conveniently just outside their Roche limits. But a few definitely are close enough and dense enough that mass should at least be siphoned off from the surface layers. To get total tidal destruction into an accretion disk would probably require a primary as dense as a black hole.

For example, 2 stars dancing around their Roche lobes which meet at Lagrange point L1:

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