Why didn't anyone tell me there's a neutron star hiding in Beta Sculptoris?

NecasekO

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After roughly 2800 hours of playing ED I discovered a neutron star around 100 Ly from my home base... Hiding behind a bigger B class I believe (or is it O?), so it doesn't show in galaxy map.

Is there a way to filter the galaxy map for non-primary stars? I suspect there isn't but maybe I have been missing something the whole time?

Also, are there other unusual stars within the bubble, hidden from the basic galaxy map filter? I know there are some black holes in Pleiades but I have never seen e.g. a carbon star and some other star types I have seen (Wolf-Rayet, Herbig) were really far out.
 

Vedmo

Vedmo
Not sure if this is exactly what your talking about, but I jumped into this beauty on the left side of the left most star and started to fuel scoop, then got a FSD disruption message and realized I flew right into the tail of a neutron. I got out of it fine, but it definitely woke me up! I wasn't smart enough to take a screen shot with anything showing the system, I just realized, but it was somewhere near the center.

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Mephane

Mephane
NecasekO said:
Is there a way to filter the galaxy map for non-primary stars? I suspect there isn't but maybe I have been missing something the whole time?
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There is.

* Go to the 4th tab.
* Select the mode "Map"
* In the "Map View Configuration" section, there is a dropdown, usually by default set to "Allegiance".
* Click the dropdown, scroll down in the list and select "Star Class".
* Set the checkboxes according to which types you want to show.
* Voila!
 

Nutter

Nutter
Mephane said:
There is.

* Go to the 4th tab.
* Select the mode "Map"
* In the "Map View Configuration" section, there is a dropdown, usually by default set to "Allegiance".
* Click the dropdown, scroll down in the list and select "Star Class".
* Set the checkboxes according to which types you want to show.
* Voila!
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Just bear in mind that until you discover systems with Massive stars such as O type they can hide a multitude of Black holes and Neutrons - Head over to NGC 7822 for lots of examples :)
 

NecasekO

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Mephane said:
There is.

* Go to the 4th tab.
* Select the mode "Map"
* In the "Map View Configuration" section, there is a dropdown, usually by default set to "Allegiance".
* Click the dropdown, scroll down in the list and select "Star Class".
* Set the checkboxes according to which types you want to show.
* Voila!
Click to expand...

I am aware of the star class filter. As far as I can tell, it only shows the PRIMARY star in each system (same as the mouse-over information in GalMap). So since the primary star in Beta Sculptoris is a main-sequence star, setting this filter to non-sequence stars will not show anything. Same with the black hole in Maia.
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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The neutron star in Beta Sculptoris has featured in a race before:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Double-Action-Jackson-(01-07-3303-09-07-3303)
You will see another neutron star used there that is a secondary star - HIP 41817 - sadly these cannot be searched for independently of the primary star.
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There are some other examples of interesting objects that are secondary stars in or near the Bubble. There is a Wolf-Rayet in LAWD 26 (in this system you arrive near the secondary star even though the white dwarf primary is what you see when searching!). One of the hidden gems of the Bubble (well ~300 LY out) is HIP 63835, which has three black holes with a B star primary. There is a carbon star in the Bubble as well, though I forget the designation - but it is a primary star so you should be able to see it on the Galaxy Map with the filter.
 
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