Gauging Interest: From Pleides to The Four (and maybe more?) "Galactic Sausage" Tour

[thebs]

So, once 2.1 hits, I'm thinking about doing some exploring, and seeing if anyone is interested in going out only 1,500ly or so.

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I'm really not ready to do a run to the core, I want to get an Anaconda with some beefy (expensive) components, as I feel an Asp Explorer won't do. Either that or I'll just use my Python. But for now, I really only want to go 2,000ly out, sticking with my Python that can only jump 21-23ly (depending on fuel load). And I'm only going to jump more like 15ly at a time if I can help it, doing big arcs too.

This 'tour' will start at Maia in the Pleides Nebula, which I'm headed towards now. I call it ...

"The Four (and maybe more?) 'Galactic Sausage' Tour."

These are long clusters of stars that, when you look at the far end towards the front end, are pointed right at Sol. Yeah, seems the FD devs had some fun creating these.

Two (2) of the 'Galactic Sausages' are in the middle of nebulae. The first is obvious ...

1) Orion Thick Sausage - from roughly V2088 Orinis to V2277 Orinis, which is heavily engulfed by the Orion Nebula

The second isn't difficult to find, just a much smaller nebula ...

2) NGC 1333 Thin Sausage - from roughtly WMW2010 105 to WMW2010 59, the nebula is in the middle of the long run of stars

There are two (2) others without nebulae, which you can probably spot if you look around. One is thick, and I believe it was the same one pointed out to me by CMDR Hardy (Gorf). One is thin and nearly 500ly long. I suspect if we look yet more, we'll find one or two more. But in every case of these four (4), they are all pointed at Sol, not so much the core of the galaxy.

I'm not planning on doing anything formal. Just want to find people who want to wing up and head out sometime later this month, shortly after 2.1 drops. Maybe we'll find one system undiscovered. In fact, I keep Google searching, as we can't be the only ones who noticed these clusters before ... especially the others not around Orion, or even NGC 1333 for that matter.

[de Carabas]

I'm more thinking of a long tour out. I'm going to need to do a pretty solid run beyond Sag A* to move from Pioneer to Elite.

[thebs]

Actually, in reviewing the Crab Nebula Tour ...
- https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=241638

In addition to the Orion "Sausage," see it basically leaves a couple of the "Sausages" for exploration on the way back (green route'). So ... if anyone is doing the Crab Nebula Tour, after stop #10 on the "green route," I'm thinking of that slow trip back through some of them.

[Gorf]

I love the idea of a sausage tour if only to look at it end on, and from the side, from a distance.

[thebs]

I love the idea of a sausage tour if only to look at it end on, and from the side, from a distance.

Yeah, it would be interesting to see what the arrangement looked like from about 50-100ly out.

"View Galactic Sausages ... from Deep Space!"
BTW, this is beginning to sound like either an adult movie title, or a codename for illegal tapping of phones.

Let's just all focus on getting [to] the Crabs.

[Roger Wilco Jr]

Yeah, I'd expect a sausagefest from FD, but are there any melons, peaches, and figs?