The meaning of 42? Raxxla? True love?...
The Galactic Mapping Project & Historical Archive of Exploration
With apologies to James Elroy Flecker,
Who are ye, in rags and rotten shoes
You dirty-bearded, blocking up the way?
We are the explorers, master; we shall go
Always a little further. It may be
Beyond that last blue mountain, barred with snow,
Across that angry or that glimmering sea,
White on a throne or guarded in a cave,
There lies a planet where we'll understand
Why men were born.
Name: Rati´s Egg
Gal Map: Choomee HR-N e6-8992 Body: A 3 d a
Description: Landable metal-rich world very close to the current record for smalles radius (138km). Egg shaped due to its small mass.
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Imgur album: Source: https://imgur.com/a/hUnf7aR
Gal Map: Choomee HR-N e6-8992 Body: A 3 d a
Description: Landable metal-rich world very close to the current record for smalles radius (138km). Egg shaped due to its small mass.
Screenshot:
Imgur album: Source: https://imgur.com/a/hUnf7aR
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What's the thing with Maledictus Luna? If this is just a landing site of Mercury 7 exp why it is not historical?
P.S. With 3.3 some unique biological structres were added to this system so they can be also included in the desc.
P.S. With 3.3 some unique biological structres were added to this system so they can be also included in the desc.
I love exploring for the sake of determining what's possible and not possible.. and then the feeling of having that assumption be shattered by something completely unique!
Well, it may be two new colliding planets if they have different velocities. Though it looks they are not really on the same orbit and they are just close to each other. Somebody will have to do investigation and some calculations to say for sure.
They're Trojans - see https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/hunt-for-trojans.369380/
Unfortunately, I didn't do any measuring and have now left the Cat's Paw, so that'll have to be confirmed. I'll ask about submitting it in that thread. Seeing how rare they are, I will definitely be submitting it as a POI if it is.
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I (Cmdr Merydian) found a planetary nebula that doesn't show up on the Galatic Map, so I'm going to try to provide a name and description. I think it fits in neatly/thematically with another nearby nebula.
Name: Corsair's Treasure
Location: Hypao Chreou LX-U e2-11
Description: First discovered by Cmdr Pirin, this planetary nebula is situated about 1600 light years away from Corsair's Nebula. In contrast to the red and blues of Corsair's Nebula, Corsair's Treasure shows a green cast to the usual planetary nebula blue and is particularly noticeable within the system. And that green cast hints at the true treasure to be found in this neutron star system. The treasure is found in the planetoids orbiting several brown dwarfs: this is a "green" system, having all the materials needed for premium jumponium.
Visitors passing through can easily reach Corsair's Nebula via several neutron star jet cone boosts in its direction.
Name: Corsair's Treasure
Location: Hypao Chreou LX-U e2-11
Description: First discovered by Cmdr Pirin, this planetary nebula is situated about 1600 light years away from Corsair's Nebula. In contrast to the red and blues of Corsair's Nebula, Corsair's Treasure shows a green cast to the usual planetary nebula blue and is particularly noticeable within the system. And that green cast hints at the true treasure to be found in this neutron star system. The treasure is found in the planetoids orbiting several brown dwarfs: this is a "green" system, having all the materials needed for premium jumponium.
Visitors passing through can easily reach Corsair's Nebula via several neutron star jet cone boosts in its direction.
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Name: Troianas
Location: Flyooe Bli QF-C d14-124
Description: This system was discovered on the Minerva Centaurus Expedition, Jan 23 2018. At the time it was not clear to me that the ELW actually is a Trojan Planet. With the latest discussion about Trojan Planets, the re-discovery by CMDR Orvidius and the message from CMDR Sapyx I was made aware of the rarity of that system. It seams that the ELW lies in the Lagrangian point L4 of the Gas Giant. I think that this system would be a nice POI in The Galactic Mapping Project.
Thanks Commanders.
Fly/land safe.
CMDR Steyla
Location: Flyooe Bli QF-C d14-124
Description: This system was discovered on the Minerva Centaurus Expedition, Jan 23 2018. At the time it was not clear to me that the ELW actually is a Trojan Planet. With the latest discussion about Trojan Planets, the re-discovery by CMDR Orvidius and the message from CMDR Sapyx I was made aware of the rarity of that system. It seams that the ELW lies in the Lagrangian point L4 of the Gas Giant. I think that this system would be a nice POI in The Galactic Mapping Project.
Thanks Commanders.
Fly/land safe.
CMDR Steyla
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There's been considerable progress in finding Trojans with Orvidius' new algorithms generating a big long list of them extracted from EDSM raw data. So Trojans themselves may not be rare any more... but Earth-like Trojans are. Orvidius has extracted just 12 of them (including the one Steyla just submitted) out of the EDSM data, plus one more inhabited terraformed one in the bubble. I'd like to submit one of these for the list, which may be one of the more spectacular for visitors; it's not too far from Colonia, on the Colonia - Beagle Point route.
Name: The Many Moons of Troy
Location: Byoomiae UY-A d2780
Description: Trojan planets are rare, finding an Earth-like planet in a Trojan orbit is even rarer. This one is perhaps the most interesting of the dozen or so currently known, with four landable moons which should provide for some excellent photo opportunities, especially from the two closest moons which are a binary pair. It is also a relatively simple system, with only two planets: the gas giant, and the Earthlike in Trojan orbit of the gas giant, so it shows off the principle of Langrange Points fairly neatly. Scenery and science while enroute to Beagle Point.
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(the binary pair of moons are to the right of the limb of the planet)
Name: The Many Moons of Troy
Location: Byoomiae UY-A d2780
Description: Trojan planets are rare, finding an Earth-like planet in a Trojan orbit is even rarer. This one is perhaps the most interesting of the dozen or so currently known, with four landable moons which should provide for some excellent photo opportunities, especially from the two closest moons which are a binary pair. It is also a relatively simple system, with only two planets: the gas giant, and the Earthlike in Trojan orbit of the gas giant, so it shows off the principle of Langrange Points fairly neatly. Scenery and science while enroute to Beagle Point.
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(the binary pair of moons are to the right of the limb of the planet)
| POI Name: | Starburst Nebula Cluster |
| POI Type: | Regional Feature/Planetary Nebula |
| GalMap Reference: | Scheau Bli WP-O e6-3632 |
| Description: | A cluster of
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| Image: | Source: https://imgur.com/a/ci9mwNg |
Edit: Nine after finding Scheau Bli XK-O e6-10975
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One question,
a short time ago I posted here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...t-expedition-hub.116450/page-201#post-7822865
What else is required to get that system listed as a POI on edsm.net?
I asked Anthor and he mentioned the existence of a special team that monitors posts on this thread...
a short time ago I posted here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...t-expedition-hub.116450/page-201#post-7822865
What else is required to get that system listed as a POI on edsm.net?
I asked Anthor and he mentioned the existence of a special team that monitors posts on this thread...
I'm sure your post will get added to the map. We'll just have to wait for the next map update.
Greetings and welcome to the Galactic Mapping Project
Thank you for your submission, we will get to it eventually as we work us through the backlog of submissions that accumulated during DW2
.Cheers
Corbin
Map update: Post #3878 - #3930
Added:
Added:
- A Dance of Spirals
- Baade & Zwicky's Eye <- PN included because it is far from the galactic core
- The Great Escape (post 3909)
- The Smoj Crystal Fields (post 3753+3914)
- The Virulent Nebula <- PN included because of unusual lighting + rings
- Choose Your Own Adventure (post 3742+3916)
- The Rejected Child
- Rusty Rings
- Fading Hope Micronebula
- The Silly Cat Forrest <- Renamed to The Fiery Cat Fissures
- NGC 4463 Planetary Nebula <- Renamed to Autumn Nebula
- Bloody Haze Nebula <- added info on rare Mollusc habitat
- V821 Arae <- added image and data
- Not Rayet (post 3919) <- awaiting feedback on rarity
- SANDOSAN2 DW2: 3CX-DW (post 3892) <- nice find but not that rare
- Celestial Vinyl <- nice find but not that rare
- The Quartet <- nice find but not that rare
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