I totally love this. So in Flight Of Nova some players noticed that some stars in the distance looked not like stars and started venturing out and after a 10h realtime flight they managed to crash on another planetary 😄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fih4peTebyk
This is the next attempt holding enough reaction mass back to survive re-entry and do a proper landing too.
I love this level of nerdism. And I so hope they get to name that bugger 😄
@beko "…'s Hard Landing"
@beko Reminds me of when we first got uncharted systems in Elte Dangerous Beta, before they'd put the scanners in.
Had to find bodies in those systems using parallax.
Presumably "noticed that some stars in the distance looked not like stars" in this case might also have involved parallax ?
@beko Ah yes, it's there in the video description/FAQ:
"By flying away from NVA in random directions and taking screenshots at different distances, then comparing them to check for parallax effects, I found the 3rd planet Argonil. Around the same time, the planet in this video, Kalit was discovered by Heuristic. It's much closer at only 2.7 million km."
@AthanSpod @beko yes that's how they found at least 2 planets by now 🙂 The second is a lot more far away though. Search is going on for more 🤓
Edith says: Err 3? Hard to keep up with events. It's a little gold rush rn xD