The highest and lowest stars in the galaxy. No, you can't visit them.

Iron Body

Iron Body
As part of the Glorious HIP stars project, I discovered recently how to reliably find the coordinates of stars which are outside the normal limits of the galaxy map.(*)
Most, if not all, of these far away stars are HIPs , so I updated the unreachable HIP stars list with new estimates of their coordinates.

This is what I found...

The highest star in the galaxy (not Rackhams Peak ! ) is HIP 59411 at 21,644 ly above the plane of the galaxy.
The lowest star in the galaxy is HIP 5165, better known as Beta Phoenicis, at -25,604 ly below the plane of the galaxy.

(*) If you want to see the coordinates of these stars, open the ED display in a window smaller than your screen, then, as the galmap scrolls to the star, move the cursor outside the window.
 
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Iron Body

Iron Body
JJGoldberg said:
Isnt the highest system found this one ?
Highest SystemHIP 5795139,518.34 ly

And lowest

HD 207340-29,359.81 ly
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Ah - you're right.

In fact the two I mentioned above are the 18th highest, and the 6th lowest.

I had forgotten that there are a large number of HIP stars in EDSM that were in there from before the Glorious HIP project started.
The highest and lowest of these stars have had their coordinates accurately trilaterated. About 50 of these extreme HIP stars seem to have been picked out specifically for trilateration. Someone (who?) must have downloaded the RL HIP catalogue and calculated the positions from that in order to find them.

Cmdr Jackie Silver downloaded the HIP catalogue for the Glorious HIP project in Jun '20 , and attempted to calculate the X,Y,Z positions from the data, but wasn't very successful. It is only since the beginning of this year that we realised Jackie had downloaded the wrong version of the catalogue and we were able to calculate better positions.
Even so, FD did not always place the stars close to these calculated postions, many HIP stars are nowhere near where the catalogue says they should be.

Anyway, thanks for pointing that out,
 
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