Some things of mild interest

[BradHann]

It seems my ISP has broken their web server, so no pics right now. Maybe one day they'll fix it and I'll be able to upload. In the meantime...

Thaileia CE-E D13-55. A binary system some 145k ls apart, with an ELW orbiting each star.

Greae Dryoae HU-D D13-68. Four WW in the one system.

Pliele JM-C D43. A rather oddly coloured Ammonia world - at least, I've never seen it. This one kinda needs the pic, but the best way I can describe it is sort of mostly whitish blue but with bits of greenish brown. Like milk that has been left out for weeks and has developed its own ecosystem.

Skaudeae NS-B D0. A ringed water world. Not the most exciting find, but I like it.

Plieloae FZ-J B37-0 and Nyeakaa OP-C C27-1. Red dwarf stars that have more than just barren airless balls of rock orbiting them. These two both have a water world in orbit. I've never seen it before, and now I find two.

Blaa Eork QU-D D13-17. A binary pair of water worlds. This is not the interesting thing about this system; what's interesting is that no less than two other commanders had tags in this system, but neither of them noticed this.

 

[Sapyx]

If you're trying to upload pics directly to the forum, it's not your ISP - they stopped allowing that, over a year ago. Nowadays, we're supposed to upload pics to Imgur, and hotlink to the pics.

As for your finds, they're pretty good.

Thaileia: Nice find. I have yet to find a system with more than one ELW in it. There are plenty of them recorded on the ELW List, but the odds of finding one seem to be much lower than the 1-in-100 I'd need for my finding of one to be probable.

Greae Dryoae: I have found several of these. I'll even raise you one with a system I found just last night: three waterworlds (two of them terraformable) plus one Ammonia World.

Pliele: I think I know the ones you mean. This is what an Ammonia World looks like with a super-thick, hazy atmosphere. Earth-likes tend not to get such thick atmospheres, unless they're hand-made (yes, New Africa, I'm looking at you).

Skaudeae: I found a nice one of those, too, a few weeks ago. Rarer of course are ringed ELWs - only 2% of ELWs are ringed. I haven't found one of those, yet.

Red dwarf waterworlds: certainly rare, but by no means unheard of. Much rarer are ELWs around red dwarfs (I think only about 1 in 2000 M-class stars have ELWs around them, compared to 1 in 50 F-class stars). Waterworlds around brown dwarfs are also hard to find; ELWs around brown dwarfs are almost unheard of.

Blaa Eork: without actually asking the CMDRs in question, it's difficult to know the reasons why such things might be the case. Some (rarer and rarer) instances may be examples of stars that were explored back in the early days of the game, before the invention of the Advanced Discovery Scanner, when explorers had to get within 500 Ls of a planet to be aware of its existence so they hunted for planets by the parallax method. Others are laziness, or CMDRs who are already Elite explorers so don't need the cash or the fame; they're deliberately leaving some valuable items Untagged for other people to find. I can go one better here, too; in one system a few months ago I found an ELW that was just outside the 500 Ls honk range; all the inner planets had been scanned but the ELW was still Untagged.