The Galactic Mapping Project & Historical Archive of Exploration

[Sunny v. Isegrim]

Hi

I will show some Picture of my last Tour

A Hypergigant with 490 Sun-Radius and a Wolf Rayet Star with 8 Sun-Radius


BLA HYPAI AA-A H55 Nebula


T-Tauri Star with Ring


SHROGAAE AA-A H78 Nebula


MYNOAW AA-A H23 Nebula


GREAE PHOEA AA-A H41


GREAE PHIO AA-A H33 Nebula


EROD PRAU AA-A H12 Nebula


EOR AOC AA-A H70 Nebula


EESHORPS AA-A H80 Nebula


At last two Hypergigants from 5000LS ! The jump in was very HOT!


Greetings Sunny v. Isegrim

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

Not quite true! I originally stumbled upon the Sapphire Dancers because I was actually looking for The Seven Sapphires Cluster but ended up at the wrong place because of that numerical offset but in the map search!

Smojo LM-W f1-0 = The Seven Sapphires Cluster
Smojo LM-W f1-1 = Sapphire Dancers

The naming is no coincidence!

Ah, cheers

I'll add that as a separate entry.

Hi

I will show some Picture of my last Tour...


Greetings Sunny v. Isegrim

Thanks Sunny.

There's one or two of these I've been unable to locate on the map, and most of the ones you have submitted are in a really interesting cluster of numerous nebula, just beyond the Near 3kpc Arm and stretching into the core regions. There are hundreds of nebula and stellar remnants out that way so to avoid the map getting cluttered with too many entries for that region, I've created a new regional label, called 'The Gallipolis', and I'll add your nebulae under that heading. Similar to how we presented the Festival Grounds nebula cluster in the Lower 1st Quadrant.


I'll update the maps shortly

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Why do you name a region of planetary nebulae after a city in Ohio? Just asking...

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

Why do you name a region of planetary nebulae after a city in Ohio? Just asking...

I may have WAAAY over estimated the number of POIs out there after taking another look, but Gallipolis was a town settled by 500 French Aristocrats, so the theory was; one for every POI throughout the Gallipolis Region


Added...

The Upper 3rd Quadrant :

The Gludge Planetary Nebula
The Sapphire Dancers
Atlantis


Norman Expanse :

The Gallipolis (Region)
The Gallipolis Nebulae (so far discovered)

• The Shrogaee Nebula (SHROGAAE AA-A H78)
• The Mynoaw Nebula (MYNOAW AA-A H23)
• The Eor Aoc Nebula (EOR AOC AA-A H70)
• The Eeshorps Nebula (EESHORPS AA-A H80)
• The Isegrim Nebula (GREAE PHOEA AA-A H41) Instead of labeling it the Greae Phoea Nebula I had to give it a different name due to its proximity to the Greae Phio Nebula.. the procedural names are too similar and could be confusing at first glance.

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Hi folks,

I propose the following:

The Hyperion Cluster

System Ref.: Hypio Phoea IN-S e4-3
Coordinates: 10,700 ; -180 ; -5,400
POI Type: Scientific & Exploration

The Hyperion Cluster is a density of the more massive B type stars on the brink of the Perseus Fade. It's a very lively place with many T Tauri stars orbiting their primaries and the Cluster is also a decent navigational 'beacon' because all dust in the area was burnt away and most stars are visible from a great distance.

Please see attached screenshot for revision:

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Here's a non procedural I think that's not included in the Mapping Project right now:

Open Cluster NGC 2384


System Ref.: CPD-20 2376
Coordinates: 5,690 ; -290 ; -3,920

NGC 2384 is an Open Cluster some 500 LY distant from NGC 2367. It lies well below the Galactic Plane and contains about a dozen massive hot stars of types O, B and some A. Further info can be found in this archaic database. Some additional info can be found here.

Please see attached screenshot for revision:

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

Here's a non procedural I think that's not included in the Mapping Project right now:

Open Cluster NGC 2384


System Ref.: CPD-20 2376
Coordinates: 5,690 ; -290 ; -3,920

NGC 2384 is an Open Cluster some 500 LY distant from NGC 2367. It lies well below the Galactic Plane and contains about a dozen massive hot stars of types O, B and some A. Further info can be found in this archaic database. Some additional info can be found here.

Please see attached screenshot for revision:

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Nice find! I love it when these little hidden gems are finally spotted and uncovered by good old fashioned exploration

I bet there's a few non-procedural clusters still out there that we haven't marked.

 

[Eisen]

Hi,
I've got some new POI or rather an area of interest for those crossing the Formidine Rift. Many of us know the Formidine Bridge as a means of crossing the Formidine Rift, an area of low-star density that only is crossable by ships with a Jump range of 30 ly and higher. After exploring the borders of the Bovomit-permit-sector I noticed a faint bridge like feature to the east of the already known Formidine Bridge. I found on my way across, that star density whithin this feature is high enough to allow traversing for ships with 25-30 ly jump range. Also it shortens the way from this part of the outer Arm to the core.

"The Far Bridge"

Game map search reference:
Pria Eup TD-T d3-8 (Perseus Arm)
Preou Thio TX-U D2-12 (Outer Arm)

POI-Type: exploration waypoint

A region of higher star density between the Perseus Arm and the Outer-Arm approximately 8-10.000 ly east of the Formidine Bridge, that allows for easy crossing of the Formidine Rift by ships with a jump-range of 25 ly or higher. It's length of approximately 3400 ly makes it interesting for those travellers, who decide to go corewards from the Rim.

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Very interesting find! I had planned to go that way next to visit some NGCs in the Cepheus Constellation so your navigational advisories come in handy

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Another non procedural:

Open Cluster NGC 2374

System Ref.: NGC 2374 Sector BA-A e0 ; NGC 2374 Sector JM-W e1-1 ; BD-12 1947 ; BD-12 1943
Coordinates: 3,600 ; 50 ; -3,200
Distance from Sol: ~ 4,600 LY

NGC 2374 is somewhat tricky as it is quite old in galactical terms. There are hardly any massive hot stars left so visual identification and 'OB filtering' via the GalMap prove difficult. It seems to be spread quite widely but the Sector is definitely smaller than a FSS (Federation Standard Sector). There are at least two stars from the archaic 'Bonner Durchmusterung' (BD): BD-12 1843 and 1847. There's also a star from the Henry Draper Catalogue nearby: HD 55854.

Providing screenshots is difficult als the Cluster is spread quite widely and sits atop a large group of T Tauri stars. Please see this collage:

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

POI Proposal:

Les Enfants Terribles
HYPUMAEA PN-T E3-2, 40,995.52LY from Sol, 1st Quadrant, Galactic Aphelion Region.
POI Type: scientific, touristic.
Nav. Hazard: deadly, can possibly cause ship destruction.

The main star of this system is an Herbig Ae/Be, that orbits one of the biggest TTauri ever found at less than 5LS. That TTauri is twice as big as the sun, and has a surface temperature of 11,400K. Since the Herbig has more mass you will always land on it, and depending on your angle you can end up in the TTauri corona. I had a not that bad angle, only 65% heat that slowly raised to 85% and could easily manuever away. But chances are this might be your last jump. And for me it was really a bad moment since the route plotter totally randomly threw me this jump in the middle of an M serie.
[video=youtube;6Uh09eiulRE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uh09eiulRE[/video]
I was happy to be able to land in this system tough, becouse there are other 2 TTauris just a little smaller than the dangerous one, so this system sports three protostars that are amongst the biggest and hottest ever known (the UC Record one is only a little bigger). And these protostars come in different colours and spectrum, giving the possibility to study all the different protostar spectra in one system.


The planets have extreme conditions too, especially this HMC with staggering characteristics: 22 million ATM of silicate vapours that push over a 15Km radius surface. With nearly 30 Earth Masses the result is surface temperature of nearly 6000K, hotter than many dwarf stars.

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[Andrew Gaspurr]

Nice find, and happy you made it

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Next one:

Emission Nebula 2359 (Thor's Helmet)


POI Type: Scientific, Visual
System Ref.: ALS 299

Thor's Helmet is a relatively small emission nebula somewhat between Barnard's Loop and the Seagull Nebula. Its illumination effects are created by heavy solar winds of a Wolf Rayet star labeled WR 7 in its center. Further information can be obtained in this archaic database.

Please see attached screenshot collage for review:



Addendum: FDev screwed ALS 299 as a WR star. They implemented it as a B type star instead.

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

Next one:

Emission Nebula 2359 (Thor's Helmet)


POI Type: Scientific, Visual
System Ref.: ALS 299

Thor's Helmet is a relatively small emission nebula somewhat between Barnard's Loop and the Seagull Nebula. Its illumination effects are created by heavy solar winds of a Wolf Rayet star labeled WR 7 in its center. Further information can be obtained in this archaic database.

Please see attached screenshot collage for review:

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Addendum: FDev screwed ALS 299 as a WR star. They implemented it as a B type star instead.

One of my favourite nebulae!!!! Very close to the Seagull!!! Did we all forget to report it here? What a shame, good job Andrew!!!

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Yeah Akira, I checked with Erimus but it was not reported. Kudos to you and a couple of others for your first-discovered tags. Seen quite a few of you there

Close by there are also at least 3 Clusters from the Collinder Catalog: Col 121, Col 132 and I think Col 140. Plus, Messier 47 (NGC 2422).
But I think it would clutter the region pretty much and quite frankly, those objects are basically 'stars among lots of stars'. They lack some of the emission or reflection nebulae you can read about in their web's astronomy entries.

Heading home now via the Vela Dark Region and then it's time for a 48 hours shower

 

[Derthek]

hey guys! i've noticed in the patch notes that some planets may have been renamed. do you think the devs may have taken some suggestions from this thread?

 

[Erimus Kamzel]

hey guys! i've noticed in the patch notes that some planets may have been renamed. do you think the devs may have taken some suggestions from this thread?

I don't think they know about this thread, but it would be cool if some well known worlds in the explorers community made it in-game someday!

Edit:
I'll be updating the maps in a few days (I haven't forgotten!)

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Currently sifting through all my data. Here are some proposals I left out so far due to time issues:

The Azure Necklace

POI type: Exploration & Visual
System ref.: Hyuedau NM-W E1-11

The 'Azure Necklace' is a ZAMS (Zero Age Main Sequence) star of spectral type B0 VZ. Orbiting a hot B star are 18 celestial bodies of various colourful hues, ranging from matte grey, pastel rose and purple to a very rich blue. The system thus has a significant tourist potential for artists, poets and other folks looking for inspiration in the deeper regions of space.

It is located in the Vela Ultima Cloud Complex.

Please see screenshot for revision:

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[Erimus Kamzel]

Latest entries :

Orion Spur - Map 1

• Six Rings 'o Silver (minor POI)
• Corovan (minor POI)
• Thor's Helmet (Emission Nebula)
• NGC 2384 Open Cluster
• NGC 2374 Open Cluster

Norma Expanse - Map 11

• Cloverfield Planetary Nebula

Lower 3rd Quadrant - Map 14

• The Hyperion Cluster

Upper 3rd Quadrant - Map 2

• The Orion Spur Traverse (also known as the Pilgrim's Path)

The Formidine Rift - Map 22

• The Far Bridge

The Galactic Aphelion - Map 6

• Les Enfants Terribles

The Far Galactic Rim

• The Tyros Ridge (was originally on the wrong map)

I've also added historical notes to the Upper 3rd Quadrant map in recognition to CMDR Andrew Gaspurrs dedication to exploring that region over the last few months and providing a wealth of information for the mapping project from it.


CMDR Sapyx has also given me permission to incorporate his Outback Gazetteer into the Mapping Project - which I'll do later today.

- - - Updated - - -

Currently sifting through all my data. Here are some proposals I left out so far due to time issues:

The Azure Necklace

POI type: Exploration & Visual
System ref.: Hyuedau NM-W E1-11

The 'Azure Necklace' is a ZAMS (Zero Age Main Sequence) star of spectral type B0 VZ. Orbiting a hot B star are 18 celestial bodies of various colourful hues, ranging from matte grey, pastel rose and purple to a very rich blue. The system thus has a significant tourist potential for artists, poets and other folks looking for inspiration in the deeper regions of space.

It is located in the Vela Ultima Cloud Complex.

Please see screenshot for revision:

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To be honest I don't think they're that unique now. A lot of HD and HIP catalog stars have similar composition. I'll add it as a minor POI if you really want it in, but it wouldn't be labelled due to its proximity to the Hyon cluster.

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

To be honest I don't think they're that unique now. A lot of HD and HIP catalog stars have similar composition. I'll add it as a minor POI if you really want it in, but it wouldn't be labelled due to its proximity to the Hyon cluster.

Fair enough. At the time being it struck out as particularly colourful but of course it is not THAT uncommon when put into scope of our endeavors in general. I just concidentally recall a picture of an Italian painter who painted the lavender fields in French Provence and I felt quite inspired about this. I guess I just wanted to have something 'similar'.

If anything out there, there is certainly no lack for inspiration and creativity