The Cassiopeia Project

[Commander William Diffin]

For those still with the Project who managed to make it through the Perseus Arm without being caught on the Fed/CoR CG flypaper, today's track is taken from Neil Armstrong's own Apollo 11 mix tape. This is what the legendary pioneers of interplanetary exploration were listening to as their primitive space capsule coasted from Terra to Luna:—
[video=youtube_share;SWhKLnmXWJg]https://youtu.be/SWhKLnmXWJg[/video]

 

[Jaiotu]

MISSION UPDATE: 19 NOV 3302

I'm still flying Commanders!

Making my way, slowly, to the bottom half of the spreadsheet where the stars are very, very few. I do have a growing suspicion that we will be able to comb through this area very quickly due to the lower stellar population. I know a lot of you are just now getting to the search area and most of the hard work locating Tycho G has already been done and much of what left lies in between the galactic arms where higher jump range starts becoming a necessity.

I'm thinking of releasing the list for the Cassiopeia A search early to give those just arriving an opportunity to have a fresh start. Considering the rate at which you have all tackled the Tycho G hunt I suspect that an early release of the coordinates will result in us finishing the expedition ahead of schedule. This will, however, give us more time to pour over the results of the survey which is another necessary step in successfully concluding our expedition.

 

[CMDR_Halceon]

I'm could certainly use this whole week to get to my four checkpoints and restock the jumponium needed to get there, so I feel no need to push on to Cassiopeia A before next weekend.

 

[Commander William Diffin]

Finally reached a set of co-ordinates which haven't already been claimed on the spreadsheet, although some of the claimed sets of co-ordinates I passed 2 or 3 kylies ago seem to have since been unclaimed, presumably by surveyors who have absconded from the Project to work for the Feds or CoR. I shan't be going back to them myself, so anyone who's left behind me should sweep those up.

And... there's nothing at the co-ordinates. It's a void. Nearest star of any type must be 70L-y from the position. Nearest G2 star is 195L-y away and I'm not visiting it as it's multiple. There is an isolated neutron star 262L-y away that I'll look into though, awkward to get to, but don't need to dump limpets or use jumponium just yet... hope the rest of you guys are luckier...

And today's track: 'The Air that I Breathe' by The Hollies (1974)

[video=youtube_share;HydvceA1PAI]https://youtu.be/HydvceA1PAI[/video]

 

[CMDR_Halceon]

And... there's nothing at the co-ordinates. It's a void. Nearest star of any type must be 70L-y from the position. Nearest G2 star is 195L-y away and I'm not visiting it as it's multiple. There is an isolated neutron star 262L-y away that I'll look into though, awkward to get to, but don't need to dump limpets or use jumponium just yet... hope the rest of you guys are luckier...

Same here. I don't my coordinates will yield anything, but I'm trying to get the screenshots from closest system for completeness.

 

[Jaiotu]

Same here. I don't my coordinates will yield anything, but I'm trying to get the screenshots from closest system for completeness.

Finally reached a set of co-ordinates which haven't already been claimed on the spreadsheet, although some of the claimed sets of co-ordinates I passed 2 or 3 kylies ago seem to have since been unclaimed, presumably by surveyors who have absconded from the Project to work for the Feds or CoR. I shan't be going back to them myself, so anyone who's left behind me should sweep those up.

And... there's nothing at the co-ordinates. It's a void. Nearest star of any type must be 70L-y from the position. Nearest G2 star is 195L-y away and I'm not visiting it as it's multiple. There is an isolated neutron star 262L-y away that I'll look into though, awkward to get to, but don't need to dump limpets or use jumponium just yet... hope the rest of you guys are luckier...

And today's track: 'The Air that I Breathe' by The Hollies (1974)

https://youtu.be/HydvceA1PAI

Ruling out the coordinates in the "gap" between the galactic arms is just as important as finding planets in the denser regions. Most of these should be pretty easy to rule out and that is a task that can probably done via the galaxy map alone without actually having to travel to the coordinates: just pop the cursor to the coordinates, evaluate the area and note that there are now valid systems within range.

 

[Commander William Diffin]

The view from the Eafords PY-R d4-0 System, at Galactic co-ordinates -10063, 307,-5777, closest system to the search co-ordinates -10044,273,-5797 at about 43.8L-y distant:

Cockpit view of Sol:

Facing Sol:

External view of the Pourquoi Pas? towards anti-Solar point:

Facing away from Sol (more or less):

No G2-type stars in the vicinity. Proceeding to search co-ordinates -10563, 287, -6097.

 

[Commander William Diffin]

On the way to search co-ordinates -10563, 287, -6097, discovered the unsurveyed G2 VAB system Eafotls LV-Y d0, at -10466, 247, -6064, 43.1L-y from search co-ordinates -10477, 285, -6047, and the closest system to those co-ordinates.

View facing Sol:

View directly away from Sol:

The system has just five small HMC worlds, four landable, one with a rocky moon:

Between them these bodies possess all jumponium elements, albeit in low quantities:

1 - Nb 1.5%
2 - As 2.2% Y 1.4%
3A - Ge 5.3%
4 - V 5.6% Ca 1.8% Po 0.6%

Useful since the nearest other reachable system is 90.02L-y away! Continuing to search co-ordinates -10563, 287, -6097.

 

[Commander William Diffin]

The views from Eafotls JA-Z d0, Galactic co-ordinates -10536,303,-6102, about 31.8 L-y from the search co-ordinates -10563,287,-6097. Looking towards Sol:

And away from Sol:

No G2 stars in the vicinity, in fact very few stars at all in this region; to reach this point had to use 2×Premium FSD Injections running on nearly empty fuel tanks, and ditch 19×Limpets. I still have 42 Limpets left so am still perfectly able to fulfil a rescue role if need be.

 

[raymondo the great]

Spreadsheet is now all filled out/assigned. I take a few days off with family and it goes from 30odd to done!

 

[Commander William Diffin]

And the views from Eafotls DU-A d0, Galactic co-ordinates -10698,295,-6180. This is the closest system to search co-ordinates -10736,292,-6197, being 41.7 L-y from them.

Towards Sol:

And away from Sol:

There are only three other star systems within 60 L-y, and none of them are G-type. Now I only have to figure out a way on to the next set of search co-ordinates; I used another Premium, 2×Standard and a Basic FSD Injection to get here, but still have 31×Basic, 13×Standard and 10×Premium FSD Injections left for now.

I'm beginning to wish I hadn't kitted out my ship for combat and rescue and kept my full 59-60L-y range. It was nice being the best armed ship in the Perseus Arm when I was bumping into CGers at the Eafots Beacon, but out here it's just dead weight, even with 50.5L-y maximum range. As I knew it would be. Ah well.

Today's track is 'Heart and Soul' by T'Pau (1987). Heart Nebula, Soul Nebula... Heart and Soul... yeah yeah. The '84ers will remember this one.
[video=youtube_share;SwrYMWoqg5w]https://youtu.be/SwrYMWoqg5w[/video]

 

[krytonion]

On the way to search co-ordinates -10563, 287, -6097, discovered the unsurveyed G2 VAB system Eafotls LV-Y d0, at -10466, 247, -6064, 43.1L-y from search co-ordinates -10477, 285, -6047, and the closest system to those co-ordinates.

Thanks Commander Diffin.

I had bookmarked that system Eafotls LV-Y d0 as the closest to -10477, 285, -6047. Done a galaxy view and established that there were no other systems that were going to be within range of the coordinates without realising the bookmarked system itself was itself a G2. [redface]

 

[soddish]

Search of co-ordinates -7099.870782 193.028778, -4098.118443 complete, 3 G2-class stars found: GLUFEE NN-K D8-18, GLUFEE RT-I D9-30 and GLUFEE ST-I D9-12. Going to check these out now before signing off for the night


Here's the view towards Sol from system IS-R C18-6, which I treated as the centre point of the search area:

 

[Jaiotu]

MISSION UPDATE: 21 NOV 3302

I must say it: I'm impressed. The coordinates in the Tycho Corridor have now nearly all been either visited or visually ruled out via the galaxy map. Great job! I'll release a spreadsheet for the Cassiopeia A search tomorrow for those who are ready to get on that hunt.

Meanwhile, it looks like I have a lot of work ahead of me! Narrowing down the results of the Tycho G search is going to be a major task in itself. Once we have a complete list of G2s along the corridor I'll have to get X, Y, Z coordinates, age, temperature, mass and radius. We can use all of this info to catalog our finds and rate them on a scale from "most likely" to "least likely". This process will be fairly time consuming so I will likely dedicate myself to this task while the rest of you move on to find Cas A.

I honestly expect that the hunt for Cassiopeia A will actually go much faster then Tycho G. Neutron stars are fairly rare in this area of the galaxy compared to class G stars.

Keep flying Commanders!

 

[Koben]

MISSION UPDATE: 21 NOV 3302

...

I honestly expect that the hunt for Cassiopeia A will actually go much faster then Tycho G. Neutron stars are fairly rare in this area of the galaxy compared to class G stars.

Keep flying Commanders!

Just a dumb question, if I may...

How do we know, at the end, that Tycho G. and/or Cas A was found? Frontier will reveal or confirm it to us?

Cheers!

 

[Commander William Diffin]

Thanks Commander Diffin.

I had bookmarked that system Eafotls LV-Y d0 as the closest to -10477, 285, -6047. Done a galaxy view and established that there were no other systems that were going to be within range of the coordinates without realising the bookmarked system itself was itself a G2. [redface]

Don't mention it, I wasn't going to (to spare your [redface]). I only spotted it myself because the system was on the only path to the next set of search co-ordinates I was actually heading for.

At least now I know what today's Expedition Track is. Oh yeah. You guessed it, it's Dean Friedman and Denise Marsa with their 1978 hit 'Lucky Stars'. Take it away—

[video=youtube_share;PyMnIip-9fY]https://youtu.be/PyMnIip-9fY[/video]

 

[Jaiotu]

Don't mention it, I wasn't going to (to spare your [redface]). I only spotted it myself because the system was on the only path to the next set of search co-ordinates I was actually heading for.

At least now I know what today's Expedition Track is. Oh yeah. You guessed it, it's Dean Friedman and Denise Marsa with their 1978 hit 'Lucky Stars'. Take it away—

https://youtu.be/PyMnIip-9fY

Thanks for taking on the role of mission DJ! Quite enjoyable.

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Just a dumb question, if I may...

How do we know, at the end, that Tycho G. and/or Cas A was found? Frontier will reveal or confirm it to us?

Cheers!

Good question!

My plan is to sift through all the systems, publish the results here and email Frontier's community team. I figure that we'll at least get a mention in Galnet, maybe even a response from the Developers. If Frontier is REALLY nice maybe one of these stars will get renamed to Tycho G so that future explorers won't have to ask, "where is it?"

 

[Jaiotu]

MISSION UPDATE: 22 NOV 3302

I'm releasing the spreadsheet for the Cassiopeia A hunt now. Here you go: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14wG1212bBiKt-BKrlb3sPDQ7DtKLRPoZj_akp9gj5qM/edit?usp=sharing

I've added a sheet to the Tycho G spreadsheet where you can see that I am compiling data from that search. I'm in the process of visiting each of the identified systems to input the relevant data. Of course, your all welcome to help in that effort. In fact, help would be appreciated since the current method I'm using is visiting each identified system individually. Right now I'm trying to reach one of CMDR Diffin's systems, EAFOTLS LV-Y D0. The only way I can see to get there is via a premium FSD boost so I'm on the ground looking for that. Have I mentioned how much I hate driving the SRV?

Good luck Commanders and keep flying!

 

[raymondo the great]

I'm updating the spreadsheet with my results now.

BTW on Tycho G's age it is supposed to be older than sol by they anticipate a few billion, so at the bare minimum that's 4.5 billion years (sols age)

 

[krytonion]

I'm updating the spreadsheet with my results now.

Ditto from me. BTW Jaiotu what definition are you using to put a YES in the Life column ?