Single stars orbits

[Manthing]

So I have been exploring for a bit now and I keep coming into single star systems that have orbits around nothing. Information shows this and even has the amount it takes to orbit. I have seen this as a glitch with smaller Gas Giants but once I restart it fixes itself and shows the right orbit but this is different cause there isn't anything for it to orbit. Please help me understand this CMDR's!

 

[gooddoc]

Iv not noticed this on my travels. Normally i would have said that the scanner hadnt scanned the system correctly & there is another body in the system causing the star to alter its path.

I have to ask, do you have an Advanced Discovery Scanner?

 

[Setu]

They are orbiting around the centre of mass of themselves and another star. Imagine big heavy star tied to small light star on a string, the light star will go around the heavy, but the heavy will 'wobble' just a little as the light stars pulls it. The path of that wobble will look like an orbit around nothing.

 

[Manthing]

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They are orbiting around the centre of mass of themselves and another star. Imagine big heavy star tied to small light star on a string, the light star will go around the heavy, but the heavy will 'wobble' just a little as the light stars pulls it. The path of that wobble will look like an orbit around nothing.

I can totally see that but the issue I'm having is the fact that I followed the entire stars orbit and it circles nothing. One star system and this isn't the first time I've seen this

 

[Manthing]

Iv not noticed this on my travels. Normally i would have said that the scanner hadnt scanned the system correctly & there is another body in the system causing the star to alter its path.

I have to ask, do you have an Advanced Discovery Scanner?

Yep for sure. I replied to another Cmdr but I actually followed this orbit around. there was no mass to move around. Just odd. I restarted and it didn't fix.

 

[RanbowTrout]

The other one won't actually be in the orbit - the star you're seeing isn't actually moving around anything, it's just moving a little from interaction with the gravity of something else in the vicinity. That'll be anything around it, whether that's a small (or not so small) star not that far away (but probably still well clear of the orbit line,) in which case it'll show up on your scan, or it might actually be the influence of the next star/s over (as viewed from the chart.)

That might not help much, but any orbital mechanics stuff I've done was a quite a while ago, and at a fairly basic level anyway. I'll leave anything better to those more qualified/knowledgeable.

 

[Manthing]

Thank you Rainbow for the info. That also makes sense. I guess maybe ED didn't really think about showing all of that info. I guess everything is influencing everything.