If I average 30 jumps an hour for the rest of the way back to the Bubble, I reckon it's going to take me another 15...
If I average 30 jumps an hour for the rest of the way back to the Bubble, I reckon it's going to take me another 15 hours of flight time to make it back to cash in my explorer data.
Oh my...
Originally shared by Iain McC
Today's exploration statistics (to accompany the pretty pictures):
Hours flown: 12
Nebulae visited: 2 (IOWHAIL & FROARKS)
Systems surveyed: 200-ish?
Distance from Great Annihilator: 8.4kly
Distance from Sag A*: 11.2kly
Distance from Colonia: 10.6kly
Distance from Shinrarta Dezhra: 14.7kly
Minimum number of jumps back to the Bubble: 455
Heat sinks deployed: 1 (after being dumped out of hyperspace into the canyon between an A-type and an F-type binary pair)
Notable bodies surveyed:
25 Neutron stars (15 first discoveries)
18 Costners (17 first discoveries)
7 Black holes (1 first discovery)
6 O-type supergiants (2 first discoveries)
6 Gas Giants with Water-Based Life (6 first discoveries)
1 Earth-Like World (1 first discovery)
1 MS-type star (1 first discovery)
My next waypoint is the BLEAE AEWSY nebula, which means I have to cross the gap between the Scutum-Crux and Sagittarius-Carina arms, so tomorrow's jaunt isn't likely to be nearly so productive. Hopefully that will mean I'll cover rather more ground, though - as I've only been covering a couple of hundred light years per hour for the last four days...
Oh my...
Originally shared by Iain McC
Today's exploration statistics (to accompany the pretty pictures):
Hours flown: 12
Nebulae visited: 2 (IOWHAIL & FROARKS)
Systems surveyed: 200-ish?
Distance from Great Annihilator: 8.4kly
Distance from Sag A*: 11.2kly
Distance from Colonia: 10.6kly
Distance from Shinrarta Dezhra: 14.7kly
Minimum number of jumps back to the Bubble: 455
Heat sinks deployed: 1 (after being dumped out of hyperspace into the canyon between an A-type and an F-type binary pair)
Notable bodies surveyed:
25 Neutron stars (15 first discoveries)
18 Costners (17 first discoveries)
7 Black holes (1 first discovery)
6 O-type supergiants (2 first discoveries)
6 Gas Giants with Water-Based Life (6 first discoveries)
1 Earth-Like World (1 first discovery)
1 MS-type star (1 first discovery)
My next waypoint is the BLEAE AEWSY nebula, which means I have to cross the gap between the Scutum-Crux and Sagittarius-Carina arms, so tomorrow's jaunt isn't likely to be nearly so productive. Hopefully that will mean I'll cover rather more ground, though - as I've only been covering a couple of hundred light years per hour for the last four days...
Bloody hell, I started this trip LAST JULY...
ReplyDeleteIain McC Congratulations on the trip, discoveries, screenshots, and that awesome exploration paint-job on your Anaconda! I scored an O super giant in my CMDR Mark Ausley account (The one heading home from Sag A). I figured they were pretty rare but you finding 6 makes me think I haven't been looking hard enough! I've been out since Sept 2016! In 2 weeks i'll have been away for a year! I went from the bubble to Colonia via quite a few nebulae and then on to Sag A and now straight toward LTT 4961. Time to get a move on and make it back home! You've inspired me to make it happen!
ReplyDeleteChris Dibben I'm going to need to buy an external hard drive back up all my screenshots, I've taken so many.
ReplyDeleteI've got three days of my summer holiday left. It would be great if I could get home before the new term starts... As you say, the money's not so important as the Explorer ranking, as I've already got 168.5MCr in the bank. I'm not sure this trip will tip me over the threshold for Elite, but hopefully it will be close.
Max Acceleration O types are rare, but one of the reasons my progress has been so slow is that I've been setting waypoints every 80ly or so on neutron stars, black holes, O-Type and B-Type stars on my way out of the central bar of the galaxy.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to try and cover the 2.7kylies across the gap between the two spiral arms as quickly as possible today and the resume the hunt for the rare stars as I get closer to the nebulae surrounding the Bubble.
Chris Dibben I'm currently 70% Ranger. I'm beginning to regret having cashed in 12kly worth of data at Colonia, because I did that only a couple of weeks before they upped the payout rates. :-S
ReplyDeleteSince then I've flown at least 25 kylies and will do around another 15-20 on my nebula tour to get back to the Bubble.
Chris Dibben Man, I hope so. That was the initial aim of the trip. But now with the Thargoids about to Return(TM), I really want to engineer the crap out of my fleet and have a few Close Encounters(TM)...
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