Quick apology to @Mike Kastilione - work has been kicking my backside this week and I just haven't found time to deal with the above yet. It's on my todo list tho' so still hoping it'll get done this week.
The Planetary Circumnavigation Club
- Thread starter Alec Turner
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Congrat's (again) - this has now been added to the official club records and I've put in an application for your EDSM achievement.Hello Cmdrs,
My first circumnavigation completed
Cmdr name: Mike Kastilione
Planet/Moon: HIP 88155 AB 2 b
https://www.edsm.net/en/system/bodi...55/details/idB/1396127/nameB/HIP+88155+AB+2+b
Gravity: 0.04G
Radius: 363 km
Atmosphere: Thin Ammonia
Approximate distance travelled: 2500 km
Start & End point: -20,5315, 32,9813
Circumnavigation: heading 0° to North Pole, 180° to South Pole, 0° to start/end point
Time taken: approximately 26 hours
Start/finish date: 29.04.3308 - 03.05.3308
Evidence: video recorded
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsBDIvTZHpxSgHdV9PDJBkMa6Tyuq92Hh
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And in other (somewhat shocking) news - the OP has now hit the 100000 character limit! I've had to remove all the old MIA/ONGOING entries from the detailed log but this could mean that this is one of the last circumnavigations that will fit in the original ledger!
Hi
My second circumnavigation is over. This time on foot.
Cmdr name: FrankDolas
Planet/Moon: HIP 88155 AB 2 b
Gravity: 0.04G
Radius: 363 km
Atmosphere: Thin Ammonia
Approximate distance travelled: 2331 km
Start & End point: -20,5315, 32,9813
Circumnavigation: heading 0° to North Pole, 180° to South Pole, 0° to start/end point
Time taken: approximately 105 hours
Ship supplies: 16
Start/finish date: 29.04.3308 - 02.06.3308
Evidence: video recorded
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZwdxcomKdQQQACpKX4_H0QaWZj_B62H
My second circumnavigation is over. This time on foot.
Cmdr name: FrankDolas
Planet/Moon: HIP 88155 AB 2 b
Gravity: 0.04G
Radius: 363 km
Atmosphere: Thin Ammonia
Approximate distance travelled: 2331 km
Start & End point: -20,5315, 32,9813
Circumnavigation: heading 0° to North Pole, 180° to South Pole, 0° to start/end point
Time taken: approximately 105 hours
Ship supplies: 16
Start/finish date: 29.04.3308 - 02.06.3308
Evidence: video recorded
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrZwdxcomKdQQQACpKX4_H0QaWZj_B62H
On foot! Well done Cmdr!
Wow - 2300km on foot! That's quite the journey. Congratulations ... I'll definitely try to compact the OP a bit to make enough room to add that one to the records.
o7
o7
rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
Congratulations! o7
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No offense, but you must be living a very happy and careless live, having so much time to waste for such useless achievement... Bravo, clap/clap.
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Walking into the planetary circumnavigation club and talking about useless achievements reminds me of this.
Go ... god be with you ... and stay on the road!
You brilliant madman! You and Alex Fighter are legends.
I understand that there is nothing more to do in this game than just keep on walking...? But c'mon guys ~105 hours of walking? Really?
Only 105 hours, must be a small moon... But yes some of us are strange and might enjoy doing things that others would completely hate...
This is not hate. You have fun over there folks, o7!!
OK - finally got around to adding your details to the on-foot list in the OP - o7 you madman!
While I was at it I've also logged my own latest circumnavigation (in Odyssey, not on foot) of Col 359 Sector BE-Q c6-0 7 b (more details on that to come).
I've made some space for logging future circumnavigations in the OP by removing the fairly lengthy list of small candidate planets as I think we have enough search tools available these days to find them ourselves.
Finally I've added SRVTracker to the list of handy tools and utilities for planetary circumnavigators.
Planetary circumnavigation in Odyssey (conclusions, videos, tips, etc)
Having already completed 4 previous planetary circumnavigations in the SRV in Horizons I've been curious for a while about what it would be like to do one in Odyssey. I've had some strong reservations about Odyssey's planet tech so, although it's taken me a while to psych myself up to do it, I...
Ohdeargodorotherentity!
That is some trip you took! oh-seven Commander, o7
And I thought my habit of visiting the Hutton Orbital at least once a month was a bit crazy. x)
rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
Please remind me (I'm knackered after LC
) and I'll ask Paul if there is something he can do about the limit for this thread,I think I've actually cleared enough space to keep this going for a while now (unless planetary circumnavigation suddenly has a massive boom in popularity) but thanks for the offer ... and great to see you again at Lavecon (sorry we never had that late night drinking session, although given how trashed I am now, probably just as well).Please remind me (I'm knackered after LC
rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
Haha OK and no worries!
Always great to meet up! I'm pretty sure I drank enough for both of us (and hence slept through the checkout time
)Couple of bits of planetary circumnavigation news.
First I wanted to give a big shoutout to @cratercamper who completed a 4 day circumnavigation of Drevlyada ABC 5 a on 31.01.3309. What was special about this particular circumnavigation was that it was carried out largely HUDless (and mostly without night vision I believe), navigating using just the stars and the body map and, after the first day, not even checking coordinates or compass after the initial morning verification. You can read the full log of the story in the PCC Discord server but I just wanted to include a quick extract here.
I am driving mostly & I am driving: HUDless!
Rules: peek into hull health & fuel is allowed anytime when vehicle not moving. And peek into coords is discouraged & peek into compass/bearing is forbidden (allowed only once at the begginning of the day). Navigation via stars & system map. It's not hard (at least on Drevla), it has the HUDless meditative quality & it makes you stare at the stars instead of the HUD number of compass bearing/azimuth. Which is great - you start recognizing some constellations, somehow you know you go in wrong direction, when the stars all look weird. And as you go, every few minutes, new star scenery is revealed on the horizon - and there is nothing to distract you.
Also just to say, today I embarked on my 6th planetary circumnavigation, doing a (hopefully) quick tour (in Odyssey) around the potato moon of Col 285 Sector RB-R b19-5 1 a.
Circumnavigating a malformed potato moon is quite interesting. It takes more effort than usual to stick to the equator and there are also times when, despite no obvious hills, the actual surface of the planet feels distinctly "up hill"! The only other thing to note is that, being Odyssey, I'm suffering stealth attacks by cloaked rocks!
Source: https://youtu.be/V8v7DAZc1kc
First I wanted to give a big shoutout to @cratercamper who completed a 4 day circumnavigation of Drevlyada ABC 5 a on 31.01.3309. What was special about this particular circumnavigation was that it was carried out largely HUDless (and mostly without night vision I believe), navigating using just the stars and the body map and, after the first day, not even checking coordinates or compass after the initial morning verification. You can read the full log of the story in the PCC Discord server but I just wanted to include a quick extract here.
I am driving mostly & I am driving: HUDless!
Rules: peek into hull health & fuel is allowed anytime when vehicle not moving. And peek into coords is discouraged & peek into compass/bearing is forbidden (allowed only once at the begginning of the day). Navigation via stars & system map. It's not hard (at least on Drevla), it has the HUDless meditative quality & it makes you stare at the stars instead of the HUD number of compass bearing/azimuth. Which is great - you start recognizing some constellations, somehow you know you go in wrong direction, when the stars all look weird. And as you go, every few minutes, new star scenery is revealed on the horizon - and there is nothing to distract you.
Also just to say, today I embarked on my 6th planetary circumnavigation, doing a (hopefully) quick tour (in Odyssey) around the potato moon of Col 285 Sector RB-R b19-5 1 a.
Circumnavigating a malformed potato moon is quite interesting. It takes more effort than usual to stick to the equator and there are also times when, despite no obvious hills, the actual surface of the planet feels distinctly "up hill"! The only other thing to note is that, being Odyssey, I'm suffering stealth attacks by cloaked rocks!