"Surface temperature is similar to that of a cup of freshly made tea"

majorleeuseless

majorleeuseless
I spotted this article ( http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1110a/ ) on the ESO website recently and thought it'd be a good idea to go and have a look in my trusty rustbucket of a Cobra.

Assuming that a cup of tea is roughly 80°C, that would equate to 353.15K. After scanning both "cool" stars in the system the data back tells me that they are both much, much hotter than the tea I drink! Especially the main star in the system. Scorchio!!

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What are the coolest star/s my fellow CMDR's have found?
 

EAGLE 5

EAGLE 5
I think the temperature system is a little broken at the moment. You can swoop right down to the FSD limit on a type O or B star the same way you would with a class M star which is far cooler and take only slightly more heat. Then you can visit a class IV Hot Giant right down to the FSD limit without damage but if you go right by a T or Y Brown dwarf which is cooler and get to the FSD Limit you star to take in heat and eventually damage. Not sure how all that works and I may be oversimplifying but some things seem off to me.
 

mono

mono
Vile stuff, the Devil's brew. Worst stuff comes from east of the Pennines.

*flies away whistling innocently*
 

dannywhac

dannywhac
mono said:
Vile stuff, the Devil's brew. Worst stuff comes from east of the Pennines.

*flies away whistling innocently*
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Hogwash. There are no finer dried leaves than those of the rolling tea fields of Yorkshire-by-the-coast I'll have you know.
 

Soda Popinski

Soda Popinski
Tea, Earl Grey, really f'n hot!
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Armia

A
EAGLE 5 said:
I think the temperature system is a little broken at the moment. You can swoop right down to the FSD limit on a type O or B star the same way you would with a class M star which is far cooler and take only slightly more heat. Then you can visit a class IV Hot Giant right down to the FSD limit without damage but if you go right by a T or Y Brown dwarf which is cooler and get to the FSD Limit you star to take in heat and eventually damage. Not sure how all that works and I may be oversimplifying but some things seem off to me.
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To my understandings, FSD emergency drop range and 'body exclusion zone' exist to indicate the minimum safety distance to a stellar body. While this 'safety distance' for planets is just simple as few Mms above their surface, for stars they also take the heat radiation into account. So the safety distance for the stars is not necessarily proportionate to distance to their surface, but actually also depends on how hot the star in question is.

That's why neutron stars' fsd drop boundaries are far further out than their actual physical size suggests. They're damn hot, usually exceeding 3 million degrees Celsius.


While that being said, it also kinda always leaves me wandering how the puny brown dwarves actially manage to heat up my ship, considering their very low surface temperature.
 

Kancro Vantas

Kancro Vantas
Mjr Lee Useless said:
I spotted this article ( http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1110a/ ) on the ESO website recently and thought it'd be a good idea to go and have a look in my trusty rustbucket of a Cobra.

Assuming that a cup of tea is roughly 80°C, that would equate to 353.15K. After scanning both "cool" stars in the system the data back tells me that they are both much, much hotter than the tea I drink! Especially the main star in the system. Scorchio!!

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What are the coolest star/s my fellow CMDR's have found?
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Oh no!! Those scientists at ESO got it all wrong again!

Please, call them immediately and tell them about your findings! They need to correct that study!
 
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