katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Little Dumbbell Nebula.

This was a 2.93G landing. Turns out high-G landings are exciting! Also driving in high-G is super bouncy fun. https://awoo.space/media/SWDZSJT8nFcnYYhc65M

I've visited over 600 star systems and traveled 2,860 light-years away from Sol. My focus has been on exploration for a while now.

...and this is how far out into the galaxy I've been: red lines, bottom. https://awoo.space/media/2vcdWxuCji8Om3pXs3o

Pelican Nebula (top), North American Nebula (bottom), Class IV gas giant (center).

turns out sometimes the best way to get pretty nebula shots is to fly farther away, not closer. https://awoo.space/media/XmiuRGH8nudXB6rP8Oc

Sadr Logsticis Depot
(background: North American and Pelican nebulae)
https://awoo.space/media/-zIerAVpGSwR2e2-lHk https://awoo.space/media/KJlW8zKRdwyV_wTZfPA

Binary ammonia worlds with life.

Water world terraforming candidate w/ carbon-based life; Veil Nebula East.

https://awoo.space/media/qAfVT5T91Vd6ZjxCkpU https://awoo.space/media/kRbxmQ5nypbHcgiL2Fg

I couldn't resit one more screenhot of Veil Nebula West.

Also, I landed on an exceptionally mineral-rich planet in a system that was completely un-visited before I got there.

https://awoo.space/media/fyRn-sOnaTCFj158MjI https://awoo.space/media/FE_EDlI97kgpcAIBB5g

Veil Nebula West.

One thing that really doesn't come across in screenshots is the scale of these nebulae. They're not clouds I'm zipping around or through, they're static background objects tens of light-years across. If I want to move relative to the nebula, I need to jump to another star system.

https://awoo.space/media/GgAtplsIMGXlr-BC6sg

I'm also making some red chile mead! It'll be done in time for winter solstice!!

https://awoo.space/media/anFNWbZ73zY6V8bqkX0

https://awoo.space/media/SjOiZNkg_27Jz50nT-E

Location: Beta Lyrae 8 / 8A https://awoo.space/media/TxIuf-QcHpyG2HrOZSk https://awoo.space/media/Nfh59gXRNNr5Hu5Zt30

I've been thinking about this for a week. Salvador Dali's panting "ship with butterfly sails" is hella anticolonialist, right? I'm not making that up?

https://awoo.space/media/-vLTEikV_hTSyKNWSZI

Decided to swing by Betelgeuse on the way back from Barnard's Loop.

big hecking sun.

The planet I'm above is about as far away from the star as Jupiter is from our sun.

https://awoo.space/media/XltRZbUQhROykOSEVi0

Found one all by myself!

also got probably too close.

That's not an accretion disk, it's gravitational lensing on some background nebulae

spooky

https://awoo.space/media/n3NgZXXDCEBLKwXJdxM

I figured out how to use the Elite Dangerous camera suite

https://awoo.space/media/OIwjkD_yUMWQeH0_h8A

Flew out to the Witch's Head and Spirograph nebulae which are *actual places that exist*.

Even in this beautiful game though, they don't look even a fraction as incredible as the real thing. https://awoo.space/media/coDZEoVPz6zLvIxfu24

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/NASA_Witch_Head_Nebula_Digitized_Sky_Survey.jpg

How is this game so pretty.

https://awoo.space/media/HO0Mjj3BvpvRiVMTyKw https://awoo.space/media/YrDpYtSx96YkOpWNvg8

Elite Dangerous is still super pretty. Also those rings aren't just a sprite; if you fly close you drop out of warp and they're an actual endless expanse of rock/ice chunks. https://awoo.space/media/IG1Z9Y463BgG7q5A9Dk

Took another picture of the sky a couple evenings ago
https://awoo.space/media/8ecZ9_AcxGWK8_WcIPU

This game is really pretty y'all. Looking up at the milky way out the window of my Cobra, in the Deciat system. Custom UI color.

https://awoo.space/media/4Xh5M3DyLgx60iQIy6U