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Mooing

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And a few more unnamed ones! I hope the two I named earlier will get picked up in the next update.
Name:Mandala Nebula
Game map search ref:Blo Aescs MP-N b40-2
Description:A medium-sized, green nebula, high above the galactic plane. It has quite a few neutron stars inside of it, as well as other interesting stars such as white dwarves and red giants.
Screenshot reference:
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Mooing

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Rusted Bulk said:
Nice find, Mooing! I love finding those "clockwork" 4-planet systems, nevermind one so blue like that. Quaternary? (We have binary, trinary...)
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I guess I should point out that this was another EDAstro find. But, to you, Rusted Bulk, might I recommend submitting your GGG? I believe it's green enough and is in a really good location. I would submit it myself, but it's your discovery and you take good pictures.
 

Mooing

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Name:Sugar Plum Nebula
Game map search ref:Blo Aescs QL-C b1-2
Description:A typical, though slightly smaller than average, purple nebula.
Screenshot reference:
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JonathanBurnage

JonathanBurnage
GMP update #4697 — #4756

Here's the latest batch of additions to the GMP. Please note Heavy's previous comment – some rarities have become more common, and we cannot accept everything. If your submission has been rejected this does not mean it is not interesting! A good rule of thumb to use is 'Would someone travel several thousand light years to see this?'

Added
  • #4707 – Rings of Völund
  • #4709 – Hermes' Halo
  • #4715 – Evelyn's Distant Sanctuary
  • #4717 – Reclining Rings
  • #4725 – Dragon's Soul nebula
  • #4726 – Rusalka's Trilemma
  • #4732 – NGC 2516 Open Cluster
  • #4742 – Highway between Worlds
  • #4748 – Bohr's Dice
Pending
  • #4697 – This system is not in EDSM
  • #4701 – Please add better pictures; they need to be taken directly from the game (not pictures of the screen) and show the cluster from the camera view and not the galaxy map
  • #4714 – Please confirm stars in this cluster; Wikipedia has different numbers/names
  • #4719 – We need pictures showing clearly the planet partially within the rings. Try taking them from a top-down perspective looking down onto the rings (perpendicular view to what you have now). Also please turn off all third-party overlays.
  • #4743 – Will be added when DSSA goes live
  • #4753 – Ditto
Not added
  • #4699 – Notability
  • #4700 – Notability
  • #4702 – This is not a record (check EDSM records page; coldest WR-NC star is 44K)
  • #4703 – Notability
  • #4704 – Notability
  • #4705 – Notability (we add PNs near the core only if they are really special, as there are so many there)
  • #4706 – Notability
  • #4708 – Notability
  • #4710 – Notability
  • #4713 – Only interesting statistically
  • #4730 – Notability (ELW+NS isn't that rare; it's not a giant star in the binary pair)
  • #4739 – See #4705
  • #4740 – Notability
  • #4741 – Notability
  • #4744 – Notability
  • #4745 – Notability
  • #4746 – Notability
  • #4747 – Notability
  • #4749 – Notability
  • #4754 – Notability
  • #4755 – Notability
  • #4756 – Notability
 

LCU No Fool Like One

LCU No Fool Like One
I saw that my entry for Hen's teeth was rejected on grounds of Notability. Rejecting it on the grounds of not being very visually interesting I could understand, but there are only 4 moon-moon-moons in the game and this system contains two of the so from that respect it is exceedingly rare.

Hen's Teeth Entry

However I respect the decision of the judges :)
 
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Mooing

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LCU No Fool Like One said:
I saw that my entry for Hen's teeth was rejected on grounds of Notability. Rejecting it on the grounds of not being very visually interesting I could understand, but there are only 4 moon-moon-moons in the game and this system contains two of the so from that respect it is exceedingly rare.

Hen's Teeth Entry

However I respect the decision of the judges :)
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According to EDAstro, there are 168. Not common, but not ultra-rare.
 

LCU No Fool Like One

LCU No Fool Like One
I think EDastro is wrong for this entry ( 31 Pegasi 8 a e a) and may be wrong for more.

www.edsm.net

EDSM - Elite Dangerous Star Map

The Galactic Positioning System of Elite: Dangerous at your service.
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8 is a Brown Dwarf star
8 a is a planet
8 a e is a moon
8 a e a is a moon moon

So unless we class brown dwarf stars as planets I would argue that EDastro has it wrong.
 

Rusted Bulk

Rusted Bulk
Mooing said:
I guess I should point out that this was another EDAstro find. But, to you, Rusted Bulk, might I recommend submitting your GGG? I believe it's green enough and is in a really good location. I would submit it myself, but it's your discovery and you take good pictures.
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I had talked to Heavy about it, and it sounded like that being Green wasn't enough to be a POI these days. I'll write up a submission though! (Gotta think of a name for it first)
 

Mooing

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LCU No Fool Like One said:
So unless we class brown dwarf stars as planets I would argue that EDastro has it wrong.
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We call them spicy gas giants ;)

Rusted Bulk said:
I had talked to Heavy about it, and it sounded like that being Green wasn't enough to be a POI these days. I'll write up a submission though! (Gotta think of a name for it first)
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It's also not in the core which is a rather POI-sparse region.
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
Yeah, it's a bit of a judgment call. In these cases they're in "planetary" orbits, specifically in that they're named like planets and are displayed horizontally out to the right on the system map. My nested moons spreadsheet is only looking at the body names to find how deeply nested they are, which of course will also include those around stars in planetary orbits. What I should probably do is capture the parent body's type and add that to the spreadsheet, so that it can be left as an exercise for the reader to decide whether they count or not. ;) :D

EDIT: Spreadsheet is updated here. It agrees that there are 4 that are deeply nested moons around planets, and not brown dwarfs or other star types.
 
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Just Bear Li

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How close do twins need to be to count as interesting? I have a pair of 900-950 km radius moons with a semi-major axis of just over 1800, and I really have no idea how common that is.
 
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Sky Captain

Sky Captain
Sky Captain said:
Name:The Forever Keep
Game map search ref:EACTAIF DB-W d2-0 5 a
Description:Situated on around the 1st Moon of the 5th planet, The Forever Keep is surrounded by thick high walls formed from the impact of a crater, a lone mountain reaching up over 17km into the sky acting as its spire, a moat of shadows protecting it from ner-do-wells. At its peak, the world curves around the ruler, allowing him to view the entirety of his domain without interruption.
However, the keep is not without its intimacy. At certain points across its spire, the tower opens up to seemingly cantilever over the void, usually along the dark side of the keep. The most notable of these, called the Edge of Forever (and the one in the screenshot reference at Latitude 38.1955 and Longitude 136.3384), offers a chance for a view of the MYOAGOOE AA-A H2 Nebula, rising perfectly in line with the overhang.
Screenshot reference:The Edge of Forever at Latitude 38.1955 and Longitude 136.3384
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View of the Keep's Domain
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Aerial View of the Keep
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Aerial View 2
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I apologize for taking so long, but I had College to contend with and Jumping around while exploring takes a large amount of my time up.

I have added a better aerial view to my last submission (The Forever Keep) in accordance to the suggestion by Johnson to the best of my abilities and updated The Forever Keep submission accordingly. I hope this will suffice in terms of better photography of the keep.
 

soulhunter

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Maybe it's not unique but it seems to be curious.

Name:Ball bearing
Game map search ref:Oopailn EZ-Z c16-3
Description:3 small ringed gas "giant" satellites are orbiting the ringed class 3 gas giant AB1 which provides some interesting views.
Screenshot reference:
2019-07-25 20-26-00 - Ball Bearing - Oopailn EZ-Z c16-3.jpg

2019-07-25 20-31-10 - Ball Bearing - Oopailn EZ-Z c16-3 (AB1).jpg

2019-07-25 20-33-12 - Ball Bearing - Oopailn EZ-Z c16-3 (AB1).jpg

aaand

Name:Ringed line
Game map search ref:Sutchae RI-B b55-2
Description:All 10 main bodies orbiting this red dwarf are ringed.
Screenshot reference:
2019-07-25 17-36-58 - Ringed Line - Sutchae RI-B b55-2.jpg
 
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soulhunter

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Heavy Johnson said:
These are visually interesting, but neither of them would be rare or unique enough to warrant submission. Please do check past entries to see what is worth submission :)
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Ok, i'll do more deeply.
I thought the bearing was because of the views. IMO it's more interesting a system which brings you some kind of interesting views than one with some rare combination of characteristics you cannot see together (i.e. a system with X type of body orbiting Y type of star which could be rare or unique but it will be like any other system if these are at certain distance because you cannot see both at the same time).
I'd submitted these anyways so do whatever you want, you're the admins. :)
 

Dr. Nagi

Dr. Nagi
soulhunter said:
Ok, i'll do more deeply.
I thought the bearing was because of the views. IMO it's more interesting a system which brings you some kind of interesting views than one with some rare combination of characteristics you cannot see together (i.e. a system with X type of body orbiting Y type of star which could be rare or unique but it will be like any other system if these are at certain distance because you cannot see both at the same time).
I'd submitted these anyways so do whatever you want, you're the admins. :)
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Not quite, it's a bit of both. It might be visually inetresting but there also might be A LOT of systems that look the same, so it's not really unique and if all those were added to the map it would become utterly cluttered and you wouldn't be able to find the actual unique systems anymore.
 

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Name:Circle of Life
Game map search ref:Phloea Aim HC-L D8-64
Description:Found my first ever EWL in my first expedition, and it turned out to be a binary EWL! The system had another ammonia world but is otherwise unremarkable
Screenshot reference:
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Binary Earth-like planets orbiting one another

LAEMUE JE-E D13-4587 5
LAEMUE JE-E D13-4587 6

Found two earthlikes orbiting each other with a terraformable water world in the system. Think two earths orbiting each other is pretty cool! :D

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