A major bug with the in-game plotter was introduced with the latest patch of Elite. It is causing routing in the Barnard’s Loop region to completely fail and require manual plotting when in there. (Not the usual issue with the permit locks around there.)
As a result, we’ve redesigned legs 1 and 2 of Celebration of Early Astronomy 7. We will instead start the expedition by going around the human populated bubble from the east in a counter-clockwise direction, visiting the various dark nebulae and other sights around there as we rejoin with the original route in NGC 752 DLM 167a on the “southwest” side of the bubble at the end of leg 2.
Please see the post https://theexpedition.info/2024-12-10/celebration-of-early-astronomy-7 for the full details.
Category: CEA7
Celebration of Early Astronomy 7
Dates: January 19, 2025 to March 23, 2025
Planned Map (Still subject to alterations to orange line) (click for full size):
Distance: 20,119.95 Ly
“The early 2000s, they were often the speculative setting of early science fiction works. Early imaginings of interstellar travel, first contact with aliens, apocalypses, pandemics, you name it, there was probably a movie or book set in the early 21st century of it. While humanity may not have invented interstellar travel by 2020 as many novels and films purported, they still discovered plenty gems of our galaxy by then.
Lucky for us in 3310 we do have interstellar travel and can visit these gems that humans on Earth in the early 21st century could only dream of visiting. So that is just what we will be setting out to do. This expedition will visit many of the noteworthy celestial objects discovered by the early 21st century, some of which even still are considered noteworthy even today in 3310.
We will be setting off from our faction’s home system Keltim, also known as Gliese 149 to the humans of 2020. From there we will be travelling our route eastward to V429 Carinae visiting old discoveries as well as finding new ones along the way!
— Patron Kezika T. Wylair, CEO of C.E.A. Psychiatric Institutions Ltd.
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Please fill out a sign-up form if you’re coming along!
Note: even if you’re not sure yet all your details, the form will give you an edit link once you submit so that you can come back and edit your submission in the future with any changes you make. Just make sure to save your link!
Sign-up form: https://theexpedition.info/Register
Roster: https://theexpedition.info/Roster
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Summary and Information
Dates: January 19, 2025 to March 23, 2025
Waypoint Count: 36
Distance: 20,119.95 Ly
Expedition Discord: https://theexpedition.info/Discord
For Celebration of Early Astronomy 7 we are heading to visit the first discovered pulsar LGM-1, short for “Little Green Men 1” because when it was first discovered the regularly repeating signal was thought to be transmissions from an alien civilization.
We will begin the expedition with a quick foray around the bubble from the “east” to “southwest” in a counter-clockwise direction, visiting various near bubble sights. Then we will set off for our final destination at LGM-1.
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Waypoints
Start: Thethys
End: LGM-1
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Current Waypoint List
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Leg 1 – 1/19 – 1/26
- Thethys – (GL 135)
- 51 Pegasi – (51 Pegasi b)
- HIP 62270 – (Coalsack Nebula)
- Sheron – (IC 4604)
- 5 Rho Ophiuchi – (Rho Ophiuchi)
- HR 6387 – (Pip and Stem Nebulae)
- PSR J1856-3754 – (Coronet Pulsar)
- Snake Sector PD-S b4-1 – (Snake Nebula)
- Nova Aquila No 3
Leg 2 – 1/26 – 2/2
- Segin
- HIP 3289 – (LBN 623)
- California Sector BV-Y c7 – (California Nebula)
- Menkib
- ASR 27 – (NGC 1333)
- NGC 752 DLM 167a – (NGC 752)
Leg 3 – 2/2 – 2/9
- HIP 102082 – (V Cygni)
- Alpha Cygni – (Deneb)
- Veil West Sector KC-V c2-18 – (Veil Nebula West)
Leg 4 – 2/9 – 2/23
- Sadr – (Gamma Cygni)
- Kepler-5
- KOI 3179
- KOI 1014
- KOI 116
- WR 136
- Crescent Sector GW-W c1-8 – (Crescent Nebula)
- KY Cygni
Leg 5 – 2/23 – 3/9
- IC 4996 DAM 9 – (IC 4996)
- V1820 Cygni – (NGC 6871)
- CSI+29-19529 – (NGC 6842)
- HD 191612 – (Cygnus OB 3 Association)
- V1357 Cygni
Leg 6 – 3/9 – 3/23+
- CSI+19-20105 – (NGC 6886)
- HD 343965
- LGM-1
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Each Leg will additionally have an announcement post when they start detailing any optional waypoints they may have added to them. Optional waypoints are subject to be added during the expedition up until the start of the leg.
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