Star registry

ProSlayer242

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If there was a star in the star registry prior to the creation of elite dangerous, would you be able to find that star in game? I know of a star in the registry that was given to a friend and I was wanting to visit. I believe the star is named after him, not sure, I can find a framed picture of it so I’ll be able to find the exact name. But my question is... will I be able to find and visit it? Thanks

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Straha Yeagar

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Oh boy, I hate to burst your bubble, but those star registries for things like birthdays, anniversaries to give as a gift are not really official in any way shape or form. To put it bluntly, they are a feel good scam. Unfortunately, you won't be able to find the star named after that person because the only place it is named after them is on the certificate.
 

Arindor

Arindor
OP, there's nothing stopping someone from asking FD to name a star in-game. IIRC, FD have tweaked the galaxy in respect of bereavement and other causes. Unfortunately star registry names aren't a special case, so I'm not sure if FD would acquiesce to such requests as it would no doubt start an avalanche of similar requests. Then there's the chance of the same star being named after several people from different registers. I can't see FD making their own register either as, I believe, name reservation was part of the kickstarter package (perhaps someone could enlighten me on this). :)
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
The vast majority of the stars used by these private, unofficial "star registries" are way too small, remote and insignificant to have been added to the ED database of real-world stars. If you find out the star's actual catalogue number, we can look it up to see if that star has been included in the game, but it almost certainly will not be.

You might be able to find a procedurally-generated star that's in more or less the same place as "your" star, but for that to be meaningful you'd need distance data to the star, and for most registry stars, this simply isn't available.
 

NW3

NW3
ProSlayer242 said:
If there was a star in the star registry prior to the creation of elite dangerous, would you be able to find that star in game? I know of a star in the registry that was given to a friend and I was wanting to visit. I believe the star is named after him, not sure, I can find a framed picture of it so I’ll be able to find the exact name. But my question is... will I be able to find and visit it? Thanks o7
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I think it might be possible, but it won't be named after him. Some star registries have their stars inside ED, but I don't believe the ED galaxy includes all known registered stars. You'll need both the name of the star and the registry. You can then try typing the official star name into the galaxy map Find edit field. If it's not found, I'd recommend starting a thread in the Explorers forum, with all known star details. Even if the star isn't in ED, there might be an auto-generated one that's nearby.
 

evanevery

evanevery
ProSlayer242 said:
I found the picture of the star and it includes the exact coordinates of the star. Can I just type in the cords to the galmap?
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You understand that the procedurally generated Elite Universe has basically nothing to do with the REAL universe right? Except for a few hand made major stars and systems, the stars in the elite universe don't match the real universe...
 

ProSlayer242

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evanevery said:
You understand that the procedurally generated Elite Universe has basically nothing to do with the REAL universe right? Except for a few hand made major stars and systems, the stars in the elite universe don't match the real universe...
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Honestly, no. I thought that when it said 1:1 scale of the Milky Way and it used all known data of the galaxy I assumed it meant that everything was as accurate as possible. Lol, my mistake. Thanks for helping
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nanite2000

nanite2000
evanevery said:
You understand that the procedurally generated Elite Universe has basically nothing to do with the REAL universe right? Except for a few hand made major stars and systems, the stars in the elite universe don't match the real universe...
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That's not exactly true.

While the overwhelming majority of stars in the ED galaxy are procedurally generated, ED takes star catalogue data for thousands of stars from several real sources: HIP (Hipparcos), HR (Harvard Revised), HD (Henry Draper), and WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). The engine places those stars within the galaxy using the same star map location data as provided by those star catalogues.

It's why you can see actual constellations in their 'real' locations when viewed from Sol.

If the OP knows the original name of the star (i.e. it's original scientific name, not the 'gifted' name), and it's name is from one of those aforementioned catalogues, then it could very well be present in-game.
 

ProSlayer242

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nanite2000 said:
That's not exactly true.

While the overwhelming majority of stars in the ED galaxy are procedurally generated, ED takes star catalogue data for thousands of stars from several real sources: HIP (Hipparcos), HR (Harvard Revised), HD (Henry Draper), and WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). The engine places those stars within the galaxy using the same star map location data as provided by those star catalogues.

It's why you can see actual constellations in their 'real' locations when viewed from Sol.

If the OP knows the original name of the star (i.e. it's original scientific name, not the 'gifted' name), and it's name is from one of those aforementioned catalogues, then it could very well be present in-game.
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My star is just above the Aquila constellation. So I’m sure it’ll probably be there. Thanks for the help
 

Rampant

Rampant
Sadly, those stars that are sold for someone to name are normally very distant/minor/faint and therefore aren't normally one of the stars in the major star catalogues that are used by FDev to populate the Elite Galaxy.
It might take a fair bit of time with trial an error, to find a star in Elite that has the correct (approximate) position relative to Sol, but if it were me and it mattered, I would find "a" star in the right place and use that one as a symbolic "alternative". Sometimes these things matter to us humans [heart]

All the best

Mark H
 

govny

govny
evanevery said:
You understand that the procedurally generated Elite Universe has basically nothing to do with the REAL universe right? Except for a few hand made major stars and systems, the stars in the elite universe don't match the real universe...
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ED is made from real star data.
all the stars named Gliese, Ross, HIP, HR and so on are taken from real star catalogs, more than 100.000, the rest are fictional.
If the star of the OP is taken from some star catalog it is surely present in ED.
 

Ambroza

Ambroza
evanevery said:
You understand that the procedurally generated Elite Universe has basically nothing to do with the REAL universe right? Except for a few hand made major stars and systems, the stars in the elite universe don't match the real universe...
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There are about 150,000 real world cataloged stars in Elite.
 
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