Awarded with a Rosette
29 Jul 2017Robert Phillips
5200 LY from Sol is the bright red Rosette Nebula, my next destination. It makes for some fantastic scenery in many of the star systems contained within it.Firstly, Rosette Sector GW-W d1-98:
Rosette Sector CQ-Y d56:
Rosette Sector CQ-Y d59:
Rosette Sector OI-S b4-5:
Near the Rosette Nebula is NGC 2244, an open cluster of several O-type and B-type stars. It's similar to the Pleiades cluster, but somewhat larger. This was home to a few neutron stars, Black Holes, and great sights:
I mapped all the major star systems here, and a few more in the surrounding region, which included Phroea Phio BV-S c6-2, home to a pair of binary terraformable water worlds in very close orbit around each other:
Some great canyons:
And a pair of moons in very close orbit in Gludgae VM-W d1-35
Now it was time to get up into the high plane of the Perseus Arm, and use Neutron stars to boost jump me towards the Skull and Crossbones nebula.