Going to have to quickly clarify and edit my original post, the rings orbit a gas giant. The parent stellar object in that system is a black hole. Unfortunately I have never run across a ringed black hole, but I'm on my way down again so I'll keep an eye out.
That's one helluva moon you got there, bud.
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Going to have to quickly clarify and edit my original post, the rings orbit a gas giant. The parent stellar object in that system is a black hole. Unfortunately I have never run across a ringed black hole, but I'm on my way down again so I'll keep an eye out.
Got any pics of it outside system map?
It gets really funny when you see Gas Giants that are moons of icy worlds. "You two are doing this wrong!"
I once found a brown dwarf with rings too. I thought it was an abnormally huge gas giant until I finished the scan. What I have never even heard of is what you found. A ringed gas giant as the moon of a ringed gas giant. Also, how massive were the two gas giants. It would be even funnier if the 'moon' was more massive than what it is orbiting.
Not a very good one, the ring is very thin and I actually ended up losing 2% hull on it as it was very hard to see, also there is a graphical glitch when viewed from a distance probably conflicts with the star.
Here's a ringed M class I found back on my first expedition.
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Approaching the star
In the rings
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Approaching the star
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Checked the system map for the weights everyone has been asking about. The dwarf is .0234 solar masses, or 7,700ish earth masses. The gas giant is 74.9 earth masses, or less than 1% of the brown dwarf's mass.
However, the radius of the brown dwarf is 69,500ish km, and the radius of the gas giant is 57,486. One is packed tight by gravity, the other one is a fluffy wafting nothingness.
However, the radius of the brown dwarf is 69,500ish km, and the radius of the gas giant is 57,486. One is packed tight by gravity, the other one is a fluffy wafting nothingness.
I don't usually associate 74.9 earth masses with " fluffy wafting nothingness"!Checked the system map for the weights everyone has been asking about. The dwarf is .0234 solar masses, or 7,700ish earth masses. The gas giant is 74.9 earth masses, or less than 1% of the brown dwarf's mass.
However, the radius of the brown dwarf is 69,500ish km, and the radius of the gas giant is 57,486. One is packed tight by gravity, the other one is a fluffy wafting nothingness.
Well, it's not "technically" a moon but we're going to ignore technicalities for a while.
http://i.imgur.com/EOgbAK7.png
Most interesting bit was the rings around the Brown Dwarf. The widest one had a 53ls radius. So big that the procedural generation model spread it out almost too thin to see. Cost me some hull damage because I couldn't tell how close I was to it trying to drop in.
Alnitak, a bright star in the constellation of Orion, also has a brown dwarf orbiting it with even larger rings, and also with a gas giant ‘moon’. It even has rocky / metal-rich bodies in the gap between two rings. I guess it makes it a nice tourist destination, since it is just a few hundred Ly from Sol
Pics in another thread. Note that those pics were taken in 1.2; I checked the system out again in 1.4, and the rings were darker, and thus less visible.
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