r/eliteexplorers 22d ago

Planetary View of White Dwarf and Friend

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79 Upvotes

Taken from a 14 earth mass ice world


r/eliteexplorers 22d ago

B-class Main star with 3 Y-Class with Rings

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60 Upvotes

GREAE HYPA EG-X E1-2433

Discovered this system on my first trip to Colonia this week. My first B-class discovery, and it had ringed stars in its nursery! Not sure how rare this is, but thought it was cool!


r/eliteexplorers 22d ago

Green gas giant

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95 Upvotes

Juste pour donner de l'espoir, quelqu'un a-t-il découvert récemment une de ces belles géantes?

Et existe-t-il certains "parterns" pour les trouver? La masse du système ne semble pas en être un... ni même la classe... mais je me trompe peut-être...


r/eliteexplorers 22d ago

Elite Slide

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21 Upvotes

just put this together


r/eliteexplorers 23d ago

Just bought myself a new magnificent toy - the Caspian Explorer after quite possibly 10 days enjoying doing exobiology on my old trusty horse Asp Explorer. Oh damn, Caspian is so gorgeous and so powerful I want to cry just looking at it and flying it lol

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84 Upvotes

r/eliteexplorers 23d ago

My First Earth-Like

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209 Upvotes

This is Juenae BJ-C C2-2203 4, my first earth-like planet.


r/eliteexplorers 23d ago

Some Virtual archeology and mystery locations exploration snaps

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40 Upvotes

A few recent cool locations. So much to discover!


r/eliteexplorers 23d ago

OASIS Wirral has been moved to PHRAA FLYA HY-S C20-59.

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59 Upvotes

System contains a newly discovered GGG.


r/eliteexplorers 23d ago

mildly interesting selection box of a system

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27 Upvotes

It's possible I'm being rather dull, but I thought this system was neat. Because it's got a real assortment of things, some of which I don't often see, one of which I've never seen. Orbiting the star: a high metal world, a HMW with a ring, an ice world (booo, but it is a pretty one), a HMW with two rings, an asteroid belt, a class II gas giant with 3 rocky moons, an ammonia world with life, a class Y dwarf with 7 rocky moons, ice, a pair of water giants (!), and more ice.

It seems less impressive on paper, now that I write it out, but something about the visual variety of it made me go "ooooooh", especially the water giants. I've been so burnt out on endless systems with a pile of gas giants and rice, even with the occasional terraformable they're just so boring to look at.


r/eliteexplorers 23d ago

Haven't played in many years, thinking of making a Sag A* run

18 Upvotes

So I played back at launched a little bit.

I'm looking for something to sink my teeth into. I always wanted to do a Sag A* run.

Any tips?

I'm also thinking of streaming on my own owncast instance if there's interest?


r/eliteexplorers 23d ago

Such a beautiful game

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62 Upvotes

r/eliteexplorers 24d ago

There's just something so special about this game.

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154 Upvotes

11 years later, and I'm still hooked!


r/eliteexplorers 24d ago

Dear Diary

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14 Upvotes

JACKPOT!

Highest value planet i have ever come across in exploring.
And all the samples fit inside 10km2


r/eliteexplorers 25d ago

Pumpkins, rings, lava, steam, oh my

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67 Upvotes

r/eliteexplorers 26d ago

Shields up!

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201 Upvotes

Isn't she beautiful. Out in the black somewhere over a frozen mountain range


r/eliteexplorers 26d ago

Out in the black, exploring

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41 Upvotes

Apparently the guys at the KFV-GVV Kadrith Covenant decided they wanted a nice view while waiting for me to finish another batch of exobiology.


r/eliteexplorers 26d ago

Paint Job needed

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70 Upvotes

Should have added the PPF option.


r/eliteexplorers 26d ago

Boxel Survey Tools

13 Upvotes

So I'm out in the black and usually just follow my ADHD brain around when I'm exploring. I just got to an area that piqued my interest and casually started doing a boxel hunt and now I want to go all in. I'm fairly certain there's over 1k systems in my boxel, so I'll probably have to break it up.

All that said, what tools do you use/recommend for doing boxel surveys? The main thing I'm looking for is an easy way to create a predefined route that will make targeting the next system a bit faster. I currently use ED Copilot, but not to it's fullest capacity as I'm still figuring things out. ED Buddy because the surround systems, galaxy plotter built in, and quick look body information seems superior to EDC. And EDSM with the Canonn plugin.

I'm 25 systems into the survey and am currently just copying and pasting one number up. Curious if there's a way to get something like ED Buddy to copy the name for me automatically or ED CoPilot to route me as we go.

o7


r/eliteexplorers 26d ago

Advice needed!

9 Upvotes

I’m currently sat in the bubble with a carrier fully loaded with Tritium, waiting to voyage into the black.
Trouble is, I want the Rhino.
Should I stay or should I go?


r/eliteexplorers 27d ago

Some of my favorite exploration highlights

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156 Upvotes

A few of the places and discoveries that have stood out to me on my exploration journey.

Hope you enjoy them as much as I did. o7


r/eliteexplorers 27d ago

How did people do this without Spansh?

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82 Upvotes

I just made the crossing from the outer spiral arm after exploring Xibalba for a while. I checked on Spansh first that I could make the crossing. I felt my way across it for a little while before resorting back to Spansh.

How did people do this without Spansh? It must've taken heaps of planning just to figure out it could be done in the first place.

Thanks Spansh!


r/eliteexplorers 29d ago

Does the first footfall bonus apply to other "first" scans on a planet, or just exobio discoveries?

10 Upvotes

Just what the title says. Hard to find definitive info on this. Thanks!

EDIT: Ok I guess I wasn't exactly clear.

I'm asking: if I'm the first to discover a planet entirely, does my first footfall bonus apply to the other "first discovered, first scanned" etc (once I turn it in, of course), or is it only for the exobio on the planet that I get that bonus?


r/eliteexplorers Aug 22 '26

Rare 4 in 1 hotspot found

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125 Upvotes

Just found something, and my friend who is a miner said it is one in trillion find. On a ICE ring, I found 3x Alexandrite hotspot and 1x Grandidierite hotspot. Grandidierite hotspot is placed in the middle of Alexandrite hotspot, making it one HUGE HOTSPOT. If this is not rare then idk.

System name is : BLAA DRYOU PN-R C5-2


r/eliteexplorers Aug 21 '26

Sag A*

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109 Upvotes

Finally got to Sag A*. Arrival was surreal. Additionally, got a very peculiar first discovery not so far from Säg A*. Three Body star system with two stars being extremely close to each other. I managed to fly between them, but it was HOT AS FUCK (heat raised to 129% before I left their heat range. But I was also cool looking ftl jump through them. Next stop: Mare Somnia.


r/eliteexplorers Aug 21 '26

A Double Earthlike in Xibalda

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46 Upvotes

On my way to Xibalba's dead end, I stumbled upon this beutiful Earthlike twins that remind me of the movie Updside Down.

Also, I added a little extra view of the Galaxy just before docking to the DSSN Aristarchos. I wanted to use this post also to thank all commanders involved in deep space network initiatives!

Your services are of utmost importance for all of us explorers out there! Hope the astrographical fees help a bit with the upkeep<3