(Update for Celebration of Early Astronomy 8 – March 30, 2026)
What jump range is needed?
To fly the route in your own ship there is a 77.06 Ly jump you will need to be able to get to/from HD 39340. That can be done in a ship with 38.54 Ly base jump range using Premium grade FSD Injection. However, you will likely want a larger jump range as a good portion of the expedition is in fairly sparse regions, and routing with just 38.54 jump range may be frustrating. – If your ship is not able to meet these jump ranges however there will be carrier support both an early shuttle and late shuttle for each leg that can assist in getting to any official basecamp waypoints.
What kind of distances per week can I expect?
I generally try to keep the weekly distance needed to around 5,000 Ly to 6,000 Ly in a basecamp to basecamp line. I try to also keep the path for visiting the “Main Waypoints” under that distance as well where possible. Visiting “Optional Waypoints” as well may at times go further. The average weekly distance for the expedition for the Main Waypoint path is 5073.40 Ly, with the average weekly distance for just basecamp to basecamp being 3842.66. – One leg, Leg 5 is 9,856.27 Ly, but it is a two week long leg, so the weekly average remains below 5kLy. One other leg, the final leg is 7,233.41 for the main waypoints, but just 1,895.03 for basecamp to basecamp as it’s a mostly U-shaped leg.
What events will there be?
We strive to have a variety of events throughout the expedition. There will at each basecamp be mass jumps, two, at different times of the day to support various schedules. We will also have some mid-leg events as well as events before and after the basecamp mass jumps. Those can include, but are not limited to: Anti-Xeno Fighting, SRV Races, SLF Races, PvP Fights of varying themes, Team Mining, and Mountain Hikes.
Community members are also more than welcome to run their own events along the route as well!
What ships besides my exploration ship should I bring?
(DETAILS COMING SOON)
Not all the waypoints are catalog objects?
While we focus on catalog objects in the in-game universe, we do also additionally feature other unique, helpful, lore based, and/or interesting sites within the in-game galaxy, especially for legs where the selection of catalog objects becomes sparse as you get further from Sol.
Any third-party apps needed?
We don’t require the use of any third-party apps for this expedition.
One new promising app that we would recommend people to check out is Explorarium can be found at https://github.com/CMDRRegza/Explorarium. The main point of The Explorarium is to revitalize and rediscover systems that have been completely ignored or undocumented, there are 172 million systems that we have access to thanks to Spansh and from that giant list they have extracted a total of 1,332 systems deemed worthy of exploring (and still growing!) – The app lists these potential systems for scouting. There are plenty to scout along the CEA8 route, and one of our waypoints with colliding rings, Eok Hypue ZO-Z b33-0 was even discovered using this tool!
We also do recommend being able to submit your data to aid other explorers and contribute to the mapping of the galaxy. What tool you use to do that is up to you, but popular apps for that are ED Market Connector and EDDiscovery. The more people contributing data to the databases means the more informed the community can be as a whole as to what is out there and help tools like Explroarium continue to find new interesting systems to discover.