The Galactic Mapping Project & Historical Archive of Exploration

[Erimus Kamzel]

Here are last months entries (let me know if I missed anything as there was a lot to update!)

• The Aucocks Pocket
• Chacao Aparcos & Chacano Partaos
• Distant Cousin System
• The Lighthouse
• The PW2010 Super Cluster
• Rautila Taw
• Renegade
• The Wetlands
• The Perseus Hollow
• The Skull and Crossbones Nebula
• The Circinus Pulsar
• The Abyssal Plane
• The Formidine "Northwest" Passage
• NGC 281
• The 'Neutron' Nebula
• The Betelgeusian Brothers
• Distant
• Exteriores Australis
• Hermit's World
• NGC 1893
• Shackleton's Star

Some entries were very close together so have been given the same map reference index number. I also added a new map (MAP 12 - THE OUTER ARM VACUUS), which now covers the very southern region of the galactic map.


With 1.3 testing and release imminent and preparation for a Buckyball Run to do, I probably won't have time to update the maps now for a few weeks. So unless you find something truly bizarre, like the Thargoid homeworld, then map updates will be slow going for a short while.

 

[Kancro Vantas]

Here are last months entries (let me know if I missed anything as there was a lot to update!)

With 1.3 testing and release imminent and preparation for a Buckyball Run to do, I probably won't have time to update the maps now for a few weeks. So unless you find something truly bizarre, like the Thargoid homeworld, then map updates will be slow going for a short while.

Thank you Erimus!!! Beautiful work!! This delay suits me fine, as I still have loads to sort and upload, and will also be doing so during the next few days.

Oh funny thing that!
I'm also on the way to map 4 and 5, hoping to find some data for the thread there!
Feel free to add me (CMDR KOLA2)

Will do.

Fly safe CMDR!

You both might want to keep tabs on my posts. I just reached Sag A* coming precisely from Maps 4 and 5, so you can take a peak on where to cover. Although I flew most of the journey, way high in the Galactic Plane, +1,500ly.

CMDR Raiko and CMDR Kola2, please disregard my message! Now that the maps have been updated and that I took a harder look to it, I realize I was totally wrong!! My trip covered mostly Map 3 and Map 11!!

Map 4 and Map 5 have indeed not being travelled by me at all!! Apologies for my wrong miscalculation!

Hope you guys keep going on that direction!!

Right on CMDR's and safe travels to you both!!

 

[Kolato]

Thank you Erimus!!! Beautiful work!! This delay suits me fine, as I still have loads to sort and upload, and will also be doing so during the next few days.








CMDR Raiko and CMDR Kola2, please disregard my message! Now that the maps have been updated and that I took a harder look to it, I realize I was totally wrong!! My trip covered mostly Map 3 and Map 11!!

Map 4 and Map 5 have indeed not being travelled by me at all!! Apologies for my wrong miscalculation!

Hope you guys keep going on that direction!!

Right on CMDR's and safe travels to you both!!

Haha!
I will continue, currently in the space between the inner core arm and the Scutum Centaurus arm, thinking of visiting the nebula in Scutum Centaurus then proceeding to the rim, stopping at all nebulas and POIs on the way.

Fly safe!

 

[Viking2010]

Hi

Apologies if this has been mentioned earlier in this post (I have read it all but it was some time ago!) but there appears to be a thin band of L class stars across the majority of the Galactic Plane (possibly all across the central plane). I'm currently below this band of stars by about 100LY but the band looks to go on forever and is only about 15LY deep. I've put a YouTube link here: http://youtu.be/UgKEDL1Qlw4 so you can see what I mean.

Although I only had my filter set to L type, there's also a band of T and Y Type stars mixed in with the L Types. Just seemed strange that there's this layer of the galaxy that's predominately 3 types of stars only. Anyone else spotted this?

BTW, Apologies for the fairly poor quality video. Need to change some settings in Shadow Play I suspect!

 

[italktowalls]

Map 10
system name: BOEWNST AA-A H33
minor poi
6 Black holes

i posted this in another thread awhile back and forgot to post it here before i took a break from ED.

Spoiler

Spoiler

 

[clavain]

Here are last months entries (let me know if I missed anything as there was a lot to update!)

• The Formidine "Northwest" Passage.

Does this mean I have to rename my ship to Erebus or Terror now? Nice connection with the Latin for Formidine... ;-)

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

Dunno if it counts as a special POI, because I guess many people have been there but here it is anyway:

Map - 01
Upsilon Carinae
POI:Visual
Descr.: Has two A I Supergiants, with B orbiting A at a mere 2,300 Light Seconds, which can put explorers dangerously 'sandwiched' between them, if approached from the galactic 'east' or 'souteast'. The system is located appr. 1,350 LY trailing from Sol, below the galactic plane.
System Search: Upsilon Carinae
(Minor Exploration Hazard)

Please see attached screenshots for revision:



1) Shows the two Supergiants' properties
2) Shows the twin stars at a distance of 500 Light Seconds (which is roughly the distance Sol - Earth).

As always, fly safe!

 

[Traveller_GG]

I've just been digging out my screen shots on the systems I travelled through and the cluster of Black Holes and Neutron Stars can be found around

BLAE EAEC GH-C D13-848

also

BLAE EAEC FG-Y G1127 A

They are obviously nothing like as compact as the ones in the Neutron Fields above and below the Galactic centre but there are dozens and dozens of systems there. I have to admit I was a little surprised how far from inhabited space they are. I've also realised I did not map them half as well as I should... missed loads of planets!

 

[Anuranium]

Great thing you guys have here!

As I see myself as the quintessential space tourist I like to find interesting and visually stunning places and this will most certainly be the place to look for exactly that!

I believe I have a minor POI or possible tourist destination:

Y Canum Venaticorum; Only 1000LY's from civilization, however directly above.
Largest Carbon star I've ever seen with a solar radius of 215,0000 and 3,0000 solar masses.
It is truly spectacular, however because of star density only ships with very large jumprange can reach it (I barely made it in my 39,4LY Anaconda).

 

[drkaii]

Great thing you guys have here!

As I see myself as the quintessential space tourist I like to find interesting and visually stunning places and this will most certainly be the place to look for exactly that!

I believe I have a minor POI or possible tourist destination:

Y Canum Venaticorum; Only 1000LY's from civilization, however directly above.
Largest Carbon star I've ever seen with a solar radius of 215,0000 and 3,0000 solar masses.
It is truly spectacular, however because of star density only ships with very large jumprange can reach it (I barely made it in my 39,4LY Anaconda).

Funny you say that as I ACCIDENTALLY jumped into it on my way back from the roof lol (see my third Deep Space Survey, towards the end). There are alternative routes. Its amazingly red. And it is only 215 solar radii

 

[Alec Turner]

I have a request (and apologies if this has already been discussed). Could the lists of POEs for the different maps be sorted on distance from Sag A rather than alphabetically? I'm currently trying to plot a sightseeing tour from Sag A back to SOL and I'm sitting here with a printout of the big map and a permanent marker pen, doing this manually.

Edit: please ignore - I'd completely failed to spot the individual area maps with all the POIs marked on them - doh!

 

[Anuranium]

Funny you say that as I ACCIDENTALLY jumped into it on my way back from the roof lol (see my third Deep Space Survey, towards the end). There are alternative routes. Its amazingly red. And it is only 215 solar radii

Oh, my bad. I stand corrected. In either case, it is an impressive system

 

[mw_aurora]

I have been meaning to post this small nebula (and I don't think anyone else has):

The Byoomao Blue Nebula
Location: Byoomao HB-X E1-232
POI type: Minor POI
A single system Nebula, nearly 25 kly from SOL, that shows on the map from a few hundred LYs away and in the skybox about 100 LY out. There are 2 Y class stars orbiting a Neutron Star, one ringed with rocks. Excellent colour when in the system.

Spoiler

 

[Andrew Gaspurr]

That's a very nice system to be sure. Great picture! :-D

 

[Azriphail]

what's the nomad arm?

Talk about response lag...

Looks like that may have been a "helpful" spelling correction from the iPad. I was on the Norma arm.

I have since crossed the darker region between the Norma Arm to the Carina Sagitarius Arm about . I have seen a couple of Wolf Ryant Stars, a smattering of Nuetron stars , 1 un-discovered Black hole and a Carbon star on the crossing. There is also an interesting plane of unreachable carbon stars I have seen very low in the galactic plane (> -800)?

I am using the few Nuetron stars out here as way points on my journey to the "Dryman Ridge" I plan to attempt a crossing back to the core as my return trip.

I am happy to take some time to map the expedition and some of the interesting systems if there is interest.

Cmdr Aziraphale

 

[Kolato]

I'm happy to report i have found some very interesting and beatiful POIs on my journey through the intermidiate 4th quadrant.
Sadly, 2/3 of them will have to wait until i get home and tag them before i post them due to their extreme rarity and beauty.

I can't say too much, except that one is a thing that i've been looking for since i started exploring.

 

[Raiko]

I'm happy to report i have found some very interesting and beatiful POIs on my journey through the intermidiate 4th quadrant.
Sadly, 2/3 of them will have to wait until i get home and tag them before i post them due to their extreme rarity and beauty.

I can't say too much, except that one is a thing that i've been looking for since i started exploring.

Greeting CMDR Kola2, between being busy IRL and everything being flakey since the 1.3 update, I've not really had chance to begin my own expedition east yet. I'm planning to get moving out from the core shortly as I would like to make it back to the bubble before the CG ends.

Hopefully I'll still have chance to rendezvous at some point, but I suspect you'll be many 1000's of LY ahead of me. Perhaps on my next expedition.

 

[who?]

I got to NGC 281 with my 26LY range Cobra, you should be able to get there no problem. I always thought of it as 'The Lungs' on my approach (coming from the Bubble nebula).
View attachment 39513

Hmmm, just noticed something a bit strange, and disappointing after visiting this nebula, and now being at the Running Man nebula. Try viewing the following nebulae in the Galaxy Map, then rotating around them to view from different angles:

- NGC 281 (aka Pacman Nebula)
- Running Man Nebula
- Witch Head Nebula

They're obviously a bit irregular in shape, but I've found if you rotate around them you find that when viewed from one side, they all look like the above: a "pair of lungs" (or butterfly, if viewed the other way around?), blue in colour with red at the base, and a black band up the middle.

Are they really that similar IRL, or is Frontier indulging in a bit of copy 'n' paste in order to flesh out the galaxy? If it's the latter, that'd be really disappointing - the whole point of exploring is to find something new, unique, special. And given how similar most star systems are, the nebula are typically the items which add some variety and points of interest to the star-scape. If they're just copied and pasted, I'm not sure there's much point.

 

[Murishani]

Are they really that similar IRL, or is Frontier indulging in a bit of copy 'n' paste in order to flesh out the galaxy?

actually I think it may be a bit of both because those two lobed shapes are actually pretty common, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_nebula

If they are IDENTICAL, then they may be engaging in a bit of developmental laziness and that is disappointing, but there's at least some merit to having those shapes.

 

[who?]

actually I think it may be a bit of both because those two lobed shapes are actually pretty common, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_nebula

If they are IDENTICAL, then they may be engaging in a bit of developmental laziness and that is disappointing, but there's at least some merit to having those shapes.

Good to know, thanks! One thing I love about this game, I'm learning more and more about astronomy, even as I fly about and honk and kill stuff!

Looking at the examples in the article, the three I mentioned do look far more similar to each other than those pictured; they are three blue-ish "butterfly" shapes, with a black seam down the middle, and a reddish hue at the base (which also extends around the back if you rotate around them).

But disclaimer: I'd been exploring around the galactic fringes for a few weeks so was starting to see faces on every planet I found. It's possible I have gone slightly insane.