Day 46 was a no-fly day. Day 47 I visited the Pink Flame Nebula. Sometime after I left that I found my first untagged Earth-like world for the trip - but I forgot to take a photo!

The first POI for Day 48 was the Cloverfield Planetary Nebula. I was only two jumps away from it when I found an untagged Earth-Like-World - my second for the trip. It was co-orbiting with a Water world too. I was surprised to find something like this so close to a published POI. If you look closely you can see the water world in the top-right corner.

The Cloverfield Planetary Nebula was a nice spot, but there seems to have been a lot of these blue planetary nebulas lately...

While on the way to The Dryau Awesomes I noticed a pretty purple nebula off in the distance, and so I had to make a slight detour. It turned out to be the Screakao ZJ-Z e4322 Nebula.

It has a black hole in it and the bright star density in the area behind the black hole makes for spectacular screenshots.

The White Dwarf of The Dryau Awesomes bit me on the way in and dinged the FSD to 99%. However the views from the moons of the nearby gas giant are just wow!

Then I moved on the the WP6 meetup site - nearly a week late.

Tonight was pretty much all travelling. I started at Fosforon.

Then moved on to the Fleur-de-Lis Nebula.

I ended the night at The 'Neutron' Nebula.

I realized tonight that my EDSM estimated scan value of 171MCr well and truly exceeds my original Distant Worlds 3302 exploration payout of 127MCr - I've only been travelling a few days since Polo Harbour!

Two more POIs, then it's on to WP6!

Day 43 was a wash due to IRL commitments...

Day 44 was a bit short too. I only had time for the 19 jumps to Fosforon.

Will plan the route to WP6 tomorrow.

I was on my way to the Ocularis Coelum when I read a post on the forums by Cmdr Hyundai35 that the system Mylaifa XQ-T d4-5703 was worth a visit with the moon C 4 b having some spectacular mountain ranges. I didn't see anything particularly special (maybe the good views were on the dark side?), but I did find some Silicate Magma Lava Spouts.

The Ocularis Coelum entry body is a black hole.

Nothing particularly special there. However, the system is notable for having a G-class star with a ring.

Next stop was the Gardens of Shangri-La.

This system is very unusual (unique?) in that it has an Earth-like world orbiting a lava-world!

Nearby is a Luteolum Lagrange Storm Cloud - quite exciting with lots of lightning - be careful - the lightning drains your shields! There are also Solid Mineral Spheres and Flavum Metallic Crystals.

Even more exciting was finding some K 12-Type Anomalies.

This was an excellent system to visit - I can highly recommend it.

The Gloaming was the next POI. In the system it's just a Neutron star, but best view of the nebula cloud is from a nearby system.

I then started off in the direction of Fosforon, but only got about half-way there before I had to call it a night.

I started by visiting the Bullet Nebula. It looked like there was a bit of a gap in the nebula.

View of Jade Ghost Stellar Remnant from Byoi Ain TJ-I d9-24 (with A 5 nearby).

Here I am bouncing off the exclusion zone at about 25km.

Ebony and Ivory is a system with a Black Hole and White Dwarf orbiting each other.

On the way to the next waypoint I noticed a blue dot in the distance which turned out to be Eor Aowsy HR-V e2-4431.

Inside the nebula my chromed Beluga looked white.

Phiaanor turned out to be a similar-looking system, except there was a ringed water world for some interest.

I decided to call it a night here and landed on one of the moons of the water world.

Finally made it to WP05 at Polo Harbour.

Still almost a week behind, so I'm not likely to make any meetup tomorrow night, but since it's the weekend and I have no other plans, I might give it a go. Still have to do sightseeing on the way, though.

I then saw I had a bookmark for Eor Aoscs VM-W d1-683 which was only about 15 jumps away, so I had a look. It seems it is very close to the Bullet Nebula and has an Earth-like world.

It's quite a different looking nebula.

First thing, I've uploaded images for my writeup of the original Distant Worlds expedition. See the first page of my Logbook.

As for Distant Worlds 2, I'm still nearly a week behind, and I'm still sightseeing!

First stop today is the Amaethon Nebula. This system has a water world orbited by another water world.

The nebula itself isn't overly special - basically one of several 'butterfly' purple/blue nebulas in the game.

There's two more POIs before I head for WP5.

The Crayfish Nebula was about 40 jumps away.

This system has a pair of planets orbiting quite close to the primary - one with a ring. Not (yet) landable, sadly.

The Clockwork Rings were only another 11 jumps.

It was a further 37 jumps to get to WP5. I decided it was too far for tonight, so I parked on one of the Clockwork planets.

I actually spent most of my time this evening reviewing old Logbook entries, adding hyperlinks, and finally digging up an old Distant Worlds 1 trip report, which I've drafted and backdated to when I wrote it in May 2016. When I've sorted out the photos to upload, I will publish it and it will become my first Logbook entry.

With the short time I had left, I jumped over to Boewnst AA-A h33. I initially tried to get close to the 'A' black hole, but I hit the exclusion zone before any distortion effects became apparent. I then hit 98% heat entering supercruise to leave.

Then I tried the 'C' black hole - much better!

Just time tonight for the leg out to the Death Spiral.

Before I left Gandharvi (Caravanserai) I transferred my mining equipment from Rohini to be a little closer.

First stop was The Crux system that has a black hole primary.

Next was Jo Ella's Flares. It was getting late and I was getting a bit sleepy, but nothing says "wake up!" quite like a close encounter with a Neutron Star!

The entry star was actually a black hole, which is the smudge on the other side of the Beluga.

Then it was just five jumps to Gagarin Gate where I parked up for the night.