System: CD-26 1339

[Pete]

So, I was heading off to investigate a direction with a strange sound, but I got carried away and flew down, down, down in the galactic plane. When I was far from home, I noticed a very bright blue star off in the distance, I spent some time trying to locate the star in the galactic map, and eventually figured it was the tiny 1-system nebula "CD-26 1339". It's a beautiful little system, I was far from the first to discover it, but it was worth it for the views!

There's a pretty cool black hole there too, which seems to dominate the lighting model, so all the planets are black...

Here's my favourite screenshot from my time there:

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There's more shots on my Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128667801@N02/

-- Pete.

 

[bossbrigand]

Really beautiful. I wish stuff like this was more common, though since the Elite universe is generated from real data I suppose the way it is is realistic enough. And besides, it makes these finds that much more special.

 

[Pete]

Really beautiful. I wish stuff like this was more common, though since the Elite universe is generated from real data I suppose the way it is is realistic enough. And besides, it makes these finds that much more special.

Yeah, finding nebulas is cool, particularly the little tiny ones. It's rare (and becoming rarer all the time) to be the first discoverer of one though unfortunately!

-- Pete.

 

[777Driver]

Yeah, finding nebulas is cool, particularly the little tiny ones. It's rare (and becoming rarer all the time) to be the first discoverer of one though unfortunately!

-- Pete.

Amazing find, but not rare at all. You can find a huge amount of planetary nebulae out there. Someone made a cool little map of some of the planetary nebulae close to home. I know for definte it's not anywhere near complete, I have found plenty more that are not on the map

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=132714&p=2222732#post2222732

 

[Pete]

If you check, I said rare to be first discoverer...(which I wasn't in this case). I know the nebulas themselves aren't so rare, but they are beautiful!

Awesome link by the way, thanks for that!

-- Pete.