The largest rings

Shnyrik

Shnyrik
Ian Doncaster said:
If you can line up correctly, then it's possible to drop out in an invisible ring
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Well, I've crashed into invisible rings a few times, but it is not always that easy. If the ring is rendered as a set of concentric rings (despite they all are considered single ring by system map), you can fly through gaps in it without being pulled out of SC. I beive that goes well for invisible rings too.
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Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Shnyrik said:
Well, I've crashed into invisible rings a few times, but it is not always that easy. If the ring is rendered as a set of concentric rings, you can fly through gaps in it without being pulled out of SC. I beive that goes well for invisible rings too.
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Normally, yes, and gap flying is fun :). This particular C-ring is normally completely invisible (and I've flown through it hundreds of times before without trouble) - I think there must be a small bit which is technically above the visibility threshold but in practice is still too faint to see.
 

Nordmarken

Nordmarken
Are there any ways to scan the outermost ring in these kinds of system when they're too far away from its main body? Encountered a few of these rings but have never been able to scan the last ring. Have for example tried to target moons that have been closest to the ring but usually they also are too far away for the scanner to work.
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Nordmarken

Nordmarken
Shnyrik said:
I believe, no. You can launch probes only within a certain range from the body and if the outer ring is too far -- then there is nothing you can do.
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Thanks. That was what I suspected unfortunately. Hopefully it will be fixed someday in the future. Think that we should either be able to target individual rings or do a blind fire that still could hit any target.
 

CMDR SleepyDelegate

CMDR SleepyDelegate
I have once found a L dwarf star with a ring that was 12ls wide (3.564 E9) and I thought that was massive... :) Unfortunately, I can't find the screenshot now, but I'm sure it will be in my Observatory somewhere... And the ring was hardly visible, I crashed into it, when I tried to position myself for pictures...

Oh, I finally found the picture... :)

On this picture you can see that faint second ring... It's 12ls across... And the name of the dwarf star...

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Here you can see me in getting close to the 12ls ring...

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The widest ring I have found so far was 46,47ls, but that one was completely invisible... If anyone wants the name of the system, then it was Kyloaln NI-Q d6-3303
 
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CMDR SleepyDelegate

CMDR SleepyDelegate
Here is the picture of that huge ring I discovered:
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One strange thing: ED Observatory says, that the ring is 46ls wide... But in reality, the ring is 77ls wide. What I have found is, that ED Obs takes the outer diameter, deducts inner diameter and then calculates the diameter in ls, ending up with wrong number... That migh be the reason, why I have not found the ring yesterday, because I was looking at wrong distance from the star...

EDIT: I made a mistake and confused diameter and radius. I therefore correct my claim about Observatory reporting the ring as being different width, than what the Journal says, because it is not true. Observatory does correct calculation and the true widht of the ring is reported correclty by Observatory... Sorry for the confusion!
 
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GroG79

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Biggest ring listed is 82568000. That is 82.568.000 so a bit bigger then the one you listed.

I found a 34.5 yesterday.. Not even close :)

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