Wierd object

Alystra

Alystra
I found this, in the region of the North American Nebula. I can't see anything like it in the Galaxy map, it's just there in the sky, along with the background stars. After doing several jumps of ~ 30 ly each, I can still see it, from each new system, looking around the same size and shape.

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What is it?
 
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Alystra

Alystra
No - it just didn't appear in my post. I'll have another go....

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Got it this time (wrong url last time)
 
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SMcA

SMcA
Alystra said:
No - it just didn't appear in my post. I'll have another go....



Got it this time (wrong url last time)
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If it is that line of stars. It is a line of stars caused by an artefact in the Stellar Forge.:cool:
They are there in the game and they are fine pickings for explorers. The fun part is getting to them. :)
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
FD said they added additional features for us to discover in 3.1 .... guess this is one of those (I don't know where I read it). Are you sure it's NGC 7822? Doesn't look anything like any of the images of it I have seen.
 

Alystra

Alystra
more on the wierd object

Kodiene said:
Saw it and made the trip myself. It's that, 90% sure of it.
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I'm glad it's not just me seeing it. Perhaps it's very big but very far away, like a galaxy, say, which might explain why I can't find it in the galaxy map. Trouble with the normal canopy view from the ship is that one doesn't know which way the ship is facing, rel to the galaxy map.
 

LifesAJourney

LifesAJourney
Qohen Leth said:
This thread, every few weeks, like clockwork :D
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The view is astonishing and can be spotted from quite a long distance. No wonder it catches attention of almost every new explorer.

Mine was caught but when I realized that it'd been explored and tagged almost completely, I just flew away. Now I regret, I should have spent more time there. Lots of crazy systems.

Is there any other place like 7822 in the galaxy, containing so many O-class stars?
 
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Major Klutz

Major Klutz
LifesAJourney said:
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Is there any other place like 7822 in the galaxy, containing so many O-class stars?
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Yes. There are a few O type clusters around but not many that densely populated.
One that stands out is the 2MASS J023xxxx cluster around KM Cassiopeiae. It's a bit longer string of stars but it stands out in the sky from a few thousand light years away and has been mistaken for NGC 7822 more than once.
It's on the direct line between the bubble and the Heart and Soul nebulae.

There's a very large but diffuse collection of O types in the area of Eeshorps EG-Y g541 containing a lot of black holes and neutron stars also. But because the cluster is spread out over a large area, it doesn't stand out in the skybox like 7822.

These other type O clusters I've found don't seem to have a lot of black hole companion stars the way NGC 7822 does.
 
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Alystra

Alystra
Okay. Thank you, and apologies to the people who already knew about the NGC 7822 line of stars. The way it looked to me, I thought that it might be some sort of system bug, but, maybe not, though one reply to my thread suggests that it could be. Sorry for wasting your time on this. Now that it seems, on the balance of probabilities, to be real, I'll try to figure out a way to get there and explore it :) .
 
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