Up or down

[Flavio]

I was wondering if most explorers are doing their search above or below or in the galactic plane ? At the moment I am at -140 so am below the galactic plane.

 

[GrillMonkey]

I went to Sag A* and on the way out I was mostly below, up to 1500Lys below at some points. Now on my way back home and I'm currently 1200Ly above.

 

[Whiterose]

I find that just above there are a lot less T's and L's.

 

[Iron Orchid]

What's "Up" and "Down"? Depends which way my ship is.

 

[Kolato]

Well i'm currently at a very sparse region of space, going just 100LY up will make the star density rim-like, and the sector is full of brown dwarfs too, so it's safe to say i'm going to be at 0 for some time

 

[Traveller_GG]

My Galactic track has a kind of Jackson Pollock feel to it... Some would call it chaotic, no... actually everyone would. Organic would be another good word, like veins in blue cheese, and about as smelly after being out for over a month.

 

[Dommarraa]

0 between the arms, +/-1000 when in an arm (if I want to scan all those NS)

 

[Ulysses_W]

I'm between -75 & +75 right now, but I do tend to plot my routes in a 3D zig-zag. It all depends on what pickings are to be found. Sometimes there are to many T.Tauri's knocking about in the higher or lower areas to make jumping safe.

 

[antonygoldrick]

I'm heading home after my first Sag A & Great Annihilator visitings so on a straightish line back.

I made some silly scooping errors* and am currently on 85% hull.

So I am making my way back home as fast as I can

* please note : do ignore any random request from said other-half to look at uninteresting internet items or other none related ED issues as these do kill you

 

[iain666]

-371 at the minute but I veer up and down as shinies catch my eye...

 

[Orange Sheets]

Way below. It feels natural considering how the galactic map is oriented when opened.

 

[Varrag]

Very far above. There were only few stars upwards visible to naked eye, and the closest one was more than 70 LYs away.

 

[Murishani]

What's "Up" and "Down"? Depends which way my ship is.

South = towards the rim closest to Sol
North = towards the farthest rim from Sol
East = Towards the rim closest to the magelanic clouds
West = Towards the rim closest to Andromeda
Up (galactic north) = moving perpendicular to the galactic disk, away from andromeda/magelanic clouds
Down (galactic south) = moving perpendicular to the galactic disk, towards andromeda/magelanic clouds

 

[Glyphon]

Well I'm currently about 1245Ly above the galactic plane so I'd say "up". I've even found HIP/HD systems that are undiscovered up here.

 

[Kancro Vantas]

I was wondering if most explorers are doing their search above or below or in the galactic plane ? At the moment I am at -140 so am below the galactic plane.

Hmm..hard to answer....approached Sag A* at 2,800 ly above plane....leaving Sag A* at 2,800 ly below the plane...

I do both, one going, one coming.

 

[Katejina]

Just below, currently. But the reason for that is because the stars in my region are clustered more closely about ~50-100 below the plane and I need them to be as close as possible to cross the outer arm in toward the core. Otherwise, I tend to hover about 200 above when i'm in more densely populated space.

 

[CMDR DoubleSkulls]

South = towards the rim closest to Sol
North = towards the farthest rim from Sol
East = Towards the rim closest to the magelanic clouds
West = Towards the rim closest to Andromeda
Up (galactic north) = moving perpendicular to the galactic disk, away from andromeda/magelanic clouds
Down (galactic south) = moving perpendicular to the galactic disk, towards andromeda/magelanic clouds

Rather than impose a rather irrelevant compass on the galaxy, would a more natural language be something like:

Up/Down - above/below Sol in the vertical axis
Corewards (vs Rimwards) towards (away) from Sag A in the horizontal axis
Spinwards (vs Widdershins) going along the galactic arms towards their ends

 

[drkaii]

they've re-enabled polls? cool

 

[Zenith]

I tend to surf along between -500 and -1250 underneath the galactic plane. Sometimes even lower when I'm close to the core. The lowest I got to was -2500 for V4641 Sagittarii.

For directions, I use:
up for positive Z axis,
down for negative Z,
coreward for positive Y,
rimward for negative Y
spinward or west for negative X
tracking or east for positive X.

 

[schizrade]

Been -1000, now moving up to +650 for some shinies.