This may be the best thing I've ever discovered

[Heavy Johnson]

I've logged over 1M ly and 20k-ish systems between two pilots, and seen just about everything out there: GGG, glowing gas giants (remember those?), nebulas galore, ringed stars, colliding moons....

But this planet with moons in highly dynamic orbits might be the most impressive visual thing I've seen in the game. It's really just amazing to watch. I stuck this in the GMP thread, but I wanted to share this more widely.

I'm calling this "Kepler's Fantasy" for the planetary astronomer. The system is Byua Aoscs PJ-E B2 and the first planet is a big ringed HMC with a bunch of rapidly orbiting moons. The resulting views are just amazing, and change rapidly. I made a 12-hour time lapse, which you can see here.

Photos from moon 1B:

From 1D:

Orrey:

 

[Orvidius]

That's really cool!

 

[LifesAJourney]

Awesome!

 

[Sapporo]

Be right there!

 

[Heavy Johnson]

I did an additional 4-hour timelapse video of the system from above, which you can see here:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWFFfaHdpU

 

[tulextreme]

Great find cmdr! Kudos to ya! o7

 

[Leif_Erikson]

That is a great find and so is the video-was hypnotising to watch!

 

[Apsley]

Great find and cool time lapse.

 

[RolloTreadway]

Ooooh, that is splendid. I have a particular love for very close planets.

 

[Steyla]

This is an awesome find and a great time lapse video. I love it.

Fly/land safe.

CMDR Steyla

 

[decemberance]

Very nice!!!

 

[schlowi123]

Yes, I've been there and it is truly amazing and totally worth a visit … even in stand still photos the amazing-ness is amazing:

@Heavy Johnson: Thank you for telling us here separately and not just in the GMP

 

[ChloeDB]

that's very cool, made me smile while watching it, I just thought to myself "This is why I enjoy Elite"

 

[Nordmarken]

I did an additional 4-hour timelapse video of the system from above, which you can see here:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvWFFfaHdpU

The time lapses are amazing to watch. Out of curiosity, what program do you use to do them? I assume you're on pc.

 

[Heavy Johnson]

The time lapses are amazing to watch. Out of curiosity, what program do you use to do them? I assume you're on pc.

I'm actually not sure any more. I know it was a program that took a screenshot every X seconds/minutes, and then I used the program VirtualDub to string those together into a video.

 

[Heavy Johnson]

Glad to see this is getting visited, I still think it may be the most visually interesting thing I've ever found.

 

[marx]

I'm actually not sure any more. I know it was a program that took a screenshot every X seconds/minutes, and then I used the program VirtualDub to string those together into a video.

Might have been Auto Screen Capture. It's open source as well.

 

[ECLIP5E]

Hot damn, that’s amazing!