The Galactic Mapping Project & Historical Archive of Exploration

[Erratic Spawn]

I am currently participating in the expedition Pegasus Run 3305, a galactic circumnavigation. The following discovery was made as a result of this expedition. I could not think of a contextual name but Eratosthenes has apparently not been honoured yet in our galaxy. This could be an opportunity to rectify that, although I do not know how rare these constellations are these days. I'll figured I submit it anyways.

Name:	Eratosthenes' World
Game map search ref:	Eos Flee ND-Z d1-1
Description:	ELW moon orbiting a terraformable HMC world orbiting a neutron star (EDSM Link to system)
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Spoiler: More images

HMC world in the front with the ELW moon to the left.

And now at the ELW moon with the HMCW to the right (which is bigger and thus better visible)

Here the system map images with descriptions for neutron star, HMCW and ELW

And one more shot from the cockpit to give some indication about the distances between ELW moon and the HMCW planet.

Note: The images do not show any names, but the data has been sold meanwhile and both HMC and ELW have been mapped as well.

 

[Mooing]

Name:	Bleia5 Nebula
Game map search ref:	Bleia5 AV-Y e551
Description:	This nebula is located within the mysterious Bleia permit locked region. It is thus unreachable and can only be seen from outside of the Bleia5 sector. It is also the only known nebula to have a name other than "AA-A h."
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[Heavy Johnson]

It is also the only known nebula to have a name other than "AA-A h"

You mean procedural, right? The regular nebula don't have that obviously. Also, I've never done a survey of those names.... @marx you run the nebula catalogue, can you confirm that?

 

[marx]

I never looked into the permit-locked sectors, and what do you know, it does turn out there is a large nebula there. The name of the nebula is "Bleia5 YE-A h30", so @Mooing is right. It's most likely this way because of how subsector system renaming works. Its original name would be "Vegnoae AA-A h?"; it's not just the sector name that gets overwritten, but also the position letters.
I'll have to look through the other permit locks to be able to tell for certain, but I'm fairly sure that none of them have large proc. gen. nebulae, so you could add a note of that in.

 

[JonathanBurnage]

Missing photo request for Phraifaae AA-A h0 (The King and Queen of Mikenas).

 

[JonathanBurnage]

A proposed new POI for the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm:

Name	The Amphitheatre
Location	Slacheae CK-A d0 A3
Description	One of the largest craters ever discovered - at approximately 1040km diameter - can be found in this system. Located on the third planet orbiting the primary star, at latitude -60, longitude -100. The planet is tidally locked, meaning the crater is permanently illuminated; it can be seen easily from orbit. Commanders landing there should be wary of the 1.68g strength gravity.
Photos

 

[Mooing]

Name:	King of the North
Game map search ref:	Eactaimly CW-N d6-57
Description:	At the border of Styx and Boreas, along the Sag A*-Beagle Point route, is this record-breaking Earth-like world. It has seven moons, the fourth of which has 10 geological sites.
Screenshot reference:	Spoiler

 

[Mooing]

Name:
Game map search ref:	Dryoea Gree BH-P c8-222
Description:	A small, purple nebula just northwest of the core. Nearby Dryoea Gree ZK-V d3-1164 has a ringed Ammonia World with gas giant moon.
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[Mooing]

Name:	Monde de la Vie (World of Life)
Game map search ref:	Plimbeau DQ-G d10-1532
Description:	Unlike the World of Death, this Earth-like world lives precariously around a white dwarf. It is close enough to be picked up by the auto-scan, but far enough to support life, and even colonization. At the time of its discovery, it's the only Earth-like around a single white dwarf. It's also just 10 lightyears away from a stellar remnant, making this an incredible find.
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[Mooing]

Name:	Blue Anomaly
Game map search ref:	Splojio AA-A g149
Description:	O-class stars were generally thought to be totally inhospitable, but this system broke that assumption. 440 kls away from the parent star is a Herbig star that hosts 5 GGWBL, 2 HMC TFC, a Water world, and an Earth-like world. Since it's discovery, it is the only known Earth-like world in a system with an O-class star.
Screenshot reference:	Spoiler

 

[Mooing]

Name:	Living Moons
Game map search ref:	Hypio Gree NI-I d10-34
Description:	The eighth planet of this system is a gas giant orbited by 5 other gas giants as moons, all with life. The fourth moon has a moon of its own that is very interesting. It's landable with geological sites and has an inclined orbit with can offer some amazing views. This is one of the most picturesque systems I have come across.
Screenshot reference:	Spoiler

 

[Flemish Jack]

Another ELW in NS system brought to you by Pegasus Run 3305. I second Erratic's point that these may not be as rare or interesting as one might think.

Name:	Ragnar's Eye (Hopefully that's not already a thing)
Game Map Search Reference:	Agnairs EY-F d12 552 4
Description:	Earth Like World (ELW) orbiting Neutron Star (NS) -- 4th planet. All others High Metal Content (HMC) Worlds -- Approximately 5,500 ly from Colonia -- 3,678.14 ls from arrival point -- 0.82454 Earth masses -- Surface Gravity: 1.02G -- Surface Temp: 278.09K -- Surface Pressure: 3.834 Atm
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[Rusted Bulk]

One last Missing Photo request - the Dancing Dwarfs POI.
Unfortunately, there's honestly not a lot to photograph here - the main star is over 17,000 LS away from the binary (which is lost in the background of this photo), and this is more of a statistical curiosity than anything else. Either way, it's checked off the list. Time to head back!

 

[Mooing]

Name:	Williamson's Legacy
Game map search ref:	Juenoe ON-S d4-753
Description:	Neutron Stars are known for their quirky Goldilocks zones, but this system is special: it has the most terraforming candidites of any system. Of the 18 terresteral bodies in the system, 15 of them are terraformable.
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[Heavy Johnson]

Another ELW in NS system brought to you by Pegasus Run 3305. I second Erratic's point that these may not be as rare or interesting as one might think.

Just for reference, ELW near NS are not (by themselves) notable enough for a POI.

 

[Heavy Johnson]

Neutron Stars are known for their quirky Goldilocks zones, but this system is special: it has the most terraforming candidites of any system. Of the 18 terresteral bodies in the system, 15 of them are terraformable.

However, there are three red dwarf stars here which provide useful habitation zones. I will need to do some research to see if this makes sense as a POI.

 

[Heavy Johnson]

O-class stars were generally thought to be totally inhospitable, but this system broke that assumption. 440 kls away from the parent star is a Herbig star that hosts 5 GGWBL, 2 HMC TFC, a Water world, and an Earth-like world. Since it's discovery, it is the only known Earth-like world in a system with an O-class star.

Note that O-class stars without any other star present have no non-procedural life-bearing terrestrial worlds. This above system has a number of Herbigs and T-Tauris, and the planets are orbiting them. Could be a POI, but again I will need to do some more research here.

Update: Two other systems with an O-class star and an earth-like world are currently known:
1) Existing POI Conundrum (1 ELW, 3x WW)
2) Lyaisoo AA-A h390 (1 ELW, 3x WW)

Lyaisoo AA-A h390 is particularly weird since the O-class is actually orbiting the primary Herbig star.

I need to bounce this POI submission to the rest of the group for feedback.

 

[Heavy Johnson]

Name: Fly By Ice
Type: Planetary
Location: Ausain CO-S c17-2

Desc: "At 20 earth masses and 19,000 km radius, this is an unusually large icy body. More unusually, it is in a 2.7 day orbit with high eccentricity. During the nearest approach, the M-class dwarf grows in the sky and then fades away, in just a few hours. This system is deep into the end of the Perseus Arm where little else of interest is found."

 

[Chrismasterski]

Missing photo request for Plio Aim ZS-W b4-0 (The Cobweb Nebula)

 

[Mooing]

Name:	Skull Rock Garden
Game map search ref:	Scaule YA-D d13-108
Description:	This behemoth of a system beats out the previous rock garden by 12 bodies*. Among the 141 bodies are 8 terraforming candidates (2 of which are water worlds) and several Helium-Rich Gas Giants.
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*The description for the Norma Rock Garden claims that it has 144 bodies, but that's not true. That number counts asteroid clusters as bodies so it's actual number of bodies is only 129.