I spent the week on a recon trip for an upcoming expedition; and as I went along the waypoints, I kept finding cool stuff and more than I had envisionned. Here's some of that stuff. The expedition, Mission Ikarus, is about supergiants, binary giants, multiple black hole/neutron stars systems, etc., on the galactic rooftop. All these systems here are waypoints, but that's just a sample of the 40 waypoints. Mission info should be out in a few weeks. Enjoy 
Starting soft with a magnetar in a ternary configuration.
Stumbled upon a true close binary pair of M III giants.
For once, I was able to find a landable close enough to the magnetar so it's very visible from the surface.
To give a sense of scale, the little spark on the left is a regular-size K star.
That's same spark, trying to compete with big brother.
Gem of the trip, an O Wolf-Rayet 2,848 above plane.
Finally, after several multi-NS/WD systems, I find a close binary pair of white dwarfs!
Always cool, a magnetar paired with a giant.
One of my favs, a GG orbiting an L dwarf. The rings of the GG are *very* close to the GG and have an outer radius of about 200,000km. The dwarf rings have an outer radius of about 27,000,000km and all 3 moons orbit the dwarf *before* the rings. Not tremendous, but pretty cool. Moons have polonium :3
Oh, forgot to mention: the star is a supergiant. To give a sense of scale (GG on the left):
Here's a funky system configuration, one of 3 quadri-NS/WD systems I registered.
And last for now, a system with primary black hole, 3 neutron stars and one white dwarf. BH and magnetar NS are in a binary configuration, so I dropped from hyperspace through the NS and by the time I realised I was okay, the BH dropped me to normal cruise. Pretty scary at the time. It's gonna make a great waypoint
Stay tuned for the Mission Ikarus!
PS: I dunno if it's me or the forums or Imgur, but the screenies look absolutely awful. Meh.
Starting soft with a magnetar in a ternary configuration.
Stumbled upon a true close binary pair of M III giants.
For once, I was able to find a landable close enough to the magnetar so it's very visible from the surface.
To give a sense of scale, the little spark on the left is a regular-size K star.
That's same spark, trying to compete with big brother.
Gem of the trip, an O Wolf-Rayet 2,848 above plane.
Finally, after several multi-NS/WD systems, I find a close binary pair of white dwarfs!
Always cool, a magnetar paired with a giant.
One of my favs, a GG orbiting an L dwarf. The rings of the GG are *very* close to the GG and have an outer radius of about 200,000km. The dwarf rings have an outer radius of about 27,000,000km and all 3 moons orbit the dwarf *before* the rings. Not tremendous, but pretty cool. Moons have polonium :3
Oh, forgot to mention: the star is a supergiant. To give a sense of scale (GG on the left):
Here's a funky system configuration, one of 3 quadri-NS/WD systems I registered.
And last for now, a system with primary black hole, 3 neutron stars and one white dwarf. BH and magnetar NS are in a binary configuration, so I dropped from hyperspace through the NS and by the time I realised I was okay, the BH dropped me to normal cruise. Pretty scary at the time. It's gonna make a great waypoint
Stay tuned for the Mission Ikarus!
PS: I dunno if it's me or the forums or Imgur, but the screenies look absolutely awful. Meh.
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