Jaunt Back to Jaques Part 2
30 Aug 2016S. O'Brien
Date: 30/08/3302Location:
It's official, I can't go 20 jumps without running into something I need to see. I don't mean to jinx it, but I doubt I'll make the Colonia Initiative at this rate. Just a few jumps from the last ringed world I visited, one practically the opposite of the lush ELW quality I had just seen. I've frankly dubbed it Hel (though there are certainly others named the same), due to it's nature, but still even darkness has beauty in it.
I took my time and scanned all of Preae Aewsy VP-E d12-2, it only felt right with Hel looking back at me. Additionally I've decided to hit two nebula here that are unmentioned in Galactic Mapping. They're along my path, but definitely two hours of flying more than I planned (plus I need one more image of the Octopus Nebula). If I stay up later tonight, maybe I can make up the time.
Two nebula extremely close to each other, in the Preae Ain region together, appear to me as Hammer and Chisel. Both feature a distinct "T" shape, formed from the darker gases that make them up, and are outlined by beautiful blue and purple hues.
First I visited the higher of the two, finding it easier to travel down through my goals; Chisel - Hammer - Octopus. Chisel is a tiny nebula, only 30 LY across at most, and contains little to no stars of its own. the few that are within its borders almost seem unrelated to the cloud of hydrogen, oxygen and various other gases.
Obviously I visited The Hammer next. At approximately 115 LY across, The Hammer contains thousands of stars, seemingly all main sequence and scoopable. The few stars I took a gander at even had a ton of gas giants (hello Ammonia based life)!
To end off the day I captured this last far-off image of the Octopus Nebula. This should be all that's left for submission to the Galactic Mapping Project.
-S.
P.S. On the road around here I also found myself a Neutron star that I'm logging for the Neutron Highway later this year. Time to start finding more of those along the road between Jaques and The Bubble.