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 - Galactic Exploration Catalog - 
Photographer's Dream

Created: 2024-04-15 16:12:27 Last Edited: 2024-09-10 10:59:41
  Discovered and Submitted by: Regza
Star System:Eulain AA-A h49
Coordinates:-3983.16 / 1535.19 / 17386.9
Sol Distance: 17,903.3 ly
Region:Norma Arm
Category:Sights and Scenery
Category:Glitches
 



Summary:

A red giant star with an Earth-like moon of a brown star, an Ammonia world, an Oxygen Atmosphere with strange anomalies, and a number of atmospheric planets.

 
Description:

Note: the images were taken modified with ReShade's MagicHDR.

This system, nicknamed the Photographer's Dream, is located in the Norma Arm region, at a middle point between Colonia, Sagittarius A*, the Great Annihilator, and Voqooe Hub. It features an interesting collection of planets to visit. Explorers arriving here are greeted with the close binary pair of a black hole binary and red dwarf giant star, which has a solar radius of 31.5631.

AB 3 is an ordinary L type dwarf star, but it has an Earth-like world orbiting it closely as its moon. Compared to Earth, this world has a thin atmosphere (0.57 atm) and weaker surface gravity (0.6 g), but it's still quite habitable. It's almost a quarter of our home's size as well. Just like our home planet, this one has a moon of its own, as a nested moon. (AB 3 f a) Unlike Luna though, this one has geological activity on its surface.

The next planetary body of interest is the colossal Ammonia World AB 5, weighing a staggering 60.8231 Earth masses. It is tidally locked to the red giant star, and has an extremely thick atmosphere.

The dim L dwarf star is close and large enough to be clearly visible from the planet, making it seems like it has two suns.

In addition to these points of interests, there are also three gas giants orbiting an M class dwarf star. Two are Gas Giants with Water-Based life, one is a Class III Gas Giant.

Moving on, there is a binary pair of a class T brown dwarf star and a class M dwarf star, which contains a landable body with a thin Oxygen atmosphere. The vibrant blue and pink atmosphere of the planet is easily visible, and has some rarely seen shades of colours thanks to the light of the nearby dwarf star.

It's worth taking a closer look at the atmosphere and its layers. The upper atmosphere has a vibrant purple colour, looking almost as if it were exaggerated. Down on the surface, the sky turns into a bright brown instead, with the zenith washed over by the bright white light of the red giant star.

The surface of the body contains biological life: Stratum Paleas.

Thanks to the peculiar conditions of the atmosphere, the distant red giant star's light appears brighter than that of the much closer brown dwarf. As such, one might land on the dark side of the moon, and walk around at night while seeing a large sun in the sky. It's also possible to see two, or even three stars at daytime.

The final star of this system is AB 12, a class K yellow-orange star with numerous moons of its own. Many of them are landable, and the farthest three are all Water Worlds. They are also candidates for terraforming: all of them have atmospheres which have too much carbon dioxide to be breathable, and have too low surface pressure as well.

Once explorers are ready to move on, thanks to the location of this system, they have a variety of popular destinations to choose from.

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ID64 Address:413369607
EDSM ID:84851447

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Messages for this POI:
Reason:Suggestion2024-09-09 10:01:06
From:Arakash
From the same Squadron as the poster of this POI, but I think the GEC post understates the rarest and most interesting parts of this POI.

The ELW listed is nice and unusually close to its landable moon but the real photographic highlight is an Oxygen Atmo landable 10ls from the Brown Dwarf.
The reason for this is due to a quirk of Elite Dangerous lighting, the planet is not lit by the close star(A Brown Dwarf 10ls away), but by a Red Giant star 14,000ls away.

This lets you get rare views of Large Twin suns in an Oxygen atmosphere or Pitch black nights with a large sun in view.

Ill attempt to link three images to the post to represent this. I hope one of the Oxygen atmo shots from the submitter or myself becomes the main banner image.

[Edited: 2024-09-09 10:10:16]

Replies: 2Visibility: Public 
From:Richard Fluiraniz M.   2024-09-09 14:34:28
If the poster is part of your squadron, you should tell him to incorporate those extra perks.Also, we might have questions about the use of teshade in the pictures. To bring an authentic experience to what is reflected in game. Please add those pictures without reshade as we have put a note about it.

GEC is all explorers that vote and posts. Is not a matter of staff but what the community thinks about a POI. I would suggest bringing more appealing details or promoting the POI for more recognition.

If you would want an insight in how to improve the entry, you are more than welcome to come to the GEC discord. Albeit I must mention this already shows in the map and its featured due toncurrent rating

From:Regza   2024-09-09 15:40:00
I saw and am working on incorporating these changes. I really like how the oxygen atmosphere stands out compared to the whole system, won't add the images though. I'll just keep the ones I have for now

[Edited: 2024-09-09 15:40:21]

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