It was only three jumps to the Silver Highway.

It looks much darker and less impressive than the EDSM pictures. More of the recent ED lighting 'improvements' I guess?

Next stop: Stairway To Heaven.

Last stop for the evening (now morning) was the Dark Eye Nebula.

It was a fairly uneventful trip, just hit the jump button a bit too soon once and knocked a couple of points of health off things. The AFMU fixed them, but is itself down to 98%.

I headed first for the Karkina Nebula

Next was the G2 Dust Cloud which I found hard to discern.

On my way to Crown Of Ice I found an untagged Earth-Like World:

When I got to Crown Of Ice I parked up on 4 b for the night.

The next Phua Aub nebula was 'Epsilon', where I found a pair of landable worlds in close orbit:

The last nebula was 'Kappa':

The last POI for the night was the black hole system GRS 1739-278

First stop was to enter the Hengist Nebula and check out the Roseum Lagrange Storm cloud.

Then it was setting course for the Phua Aub Nebula Cluster. First was the 'Alpha' nebula:

Then the 'Beta':

On logging on tonight I realised I completely forgot to try to get to the meetup last night. I missed so many while I was behind and now I forgot one while I was right next door the whole time! Bummer.

Anyway, I started the trip to the next waypoint, #8. Before I left I looked back at Explorer's Anchorage - it's progressing quite nicely.

I stopped off at Armstrong Landing and waited a while to see if any stragglers showed up, but nothing.

I headed off for Hengist Nebula and stopped just short for the night. I'll check out the storm clouds in the nebula tomorrow night.

For the last few days I've basically been having a break. It's been pretty intense jumping trying to catch up from when I fell a week behind doing the Quantum World circumnavigation.

For Day 57 I just relocated to the old DW1 WP11 for some photos while it was light.

Day 58 I decided to drive the SRV back to the DW2 WP7. When I got there I leapt into one of the ice geyers and ended up 11km away! Shame it was all dark otherwise I would have taken some photos.

Days 59 and 60 I was unable to play.

Day 61 I visited some of the new Notable Stellar Phenomena in Explorer's Anchorage and found some L04 Anomalies.

Then I visited Sagittarius A* - how could I not when it was so close?

Note the brightly glowing radiators...

I then tried to get a screenshot while jumping out. After a bit I heard some funny noises and saw sparks falling off my ship. On return to the cockpit the ship heat was over 200% and bits were failing! This is the time to do stupid mistakes while it's easy to pop over to Explorer's Anchorage for repairs. I'll have to be much more careful once DW2 leaves for Beagle Point.

On Days 62 and 63 I flew my alt account, Miriel Byrde back in the bubble. After just those two days, she's already got 40MCr and a Cobra Mk3.

First stop, Emerald Remnant.

Then Fenrisulfur.

I found some Notable Stellar Phenomena - Solid Mineral Spheres and Q06 Anomalies. I got close to one and entered camera mode for a closer photo. While doing that it turned red. I switched back to the cockpit and found it attacking my hull directly! No module damage, so nothing a repair limpet couldn't fix. I backed off a bit, then took a photo from a safe distance.

The next Notable Stellar Phenomena was a Viride Lagrange Storm Cloud with Flavum Metallic Crystals and more Q06 Anomalies.

The last POI before Explorer's Anchorage was Insinnergy's World. At Biological (4) on 7 A are Roseum Sinuous Tubers.

It was only 12 jumps to Explorer's Anchorage.

There is also a Proto-Lagrange Cloud in the system with Purpureum and Prasinum Metallic Crystals. It was too dark for a photo.

Finally, a week late, I arrived at Explorer's Anchorage.

Sagittarius A* is the bright glow just above the station axis behind the main sphere.

All my exploration data gathered since Polo Harbour at WP5 sold for 729,597,700Cr - a little more than the credits I already had to hand, and pretty much in line with what EDSM estimated. My SLF pilot scored 30.4MCr just for sitting around - isn't she lucky?

Next I thought I'd check in to the actual WP7 - Armstrong Landing.

Before I left I visited the Livery section and put on some new Iridescent Dusk paint, and repaired the paint too. I'm not one of those 'scruffy' pilots - I take pride in my ship's appearance :-) It's sort of like a better Chromed paint, which I liked a lot.

I was last here a little over three years ago on 21 Feb 3302 as part of the first Distant Worlds Expedition. When I got into the system I found a new Notable Stellar Phenomena - Prasinum Metallic Crystals and Solid Mineral Spheres.

The official meetup point of Geological (4) on 1 B was deserted (not surprising with the CG on) and in darkness - I'd arrived just after 'starset'. Quite a few of the Water Ice Geyers were busy.

The old meetup was on the same moon, but 27.6km away at 57.25/78.06 instead of 58.078/79.594.

I didn't fly day 54. On Day 55 I set out from Dance of the Compact Quartet towards the Zunuae Nebula.

After a few jumps I arrived in Phraa Flyoo DP-Z d608. It is a White Dwarf primary, but I flew through the class-M as I entered! A bit scary, fuel started scooping immediately, but I didn't overheat. Phew!

Later on I found a nice ringed water world Phraa Flyoo AP-A e690 11 a.

Almost to the Zunuae Nebula I found two water worlds next to each other in Zunuae RG-O c6-247.

After so many nebula visits it's getting hard to find new ways to screenshot them, but I'm trying. This time it's the Zunuae Nebula from the icy rings of a gas giant in a nearby system.

The next stop was Six Rings. Below is a view of the entry class-B star peeking through the rings of one of the six ringed T-Tauri stars the system is named for.

Just a few jumps away was Wulfric.

When I got into the nebula, I found my first Notable Stellar Phenomena in planetary rings - Solid Mineral Spheres and Rubeum Metallic Crystals in the first one, Rubeum and Flavum Metallic Crystals in the second one.

I decided to camp for the night at some Silicate Lava Spouts.

Only three more POIs before I get to WP7, which is now less than 1000Ly away.

Another day, another untagged Earth-like world, this one with a landable moon.

That's the fifth one so far. Nothing else exciting, just a lot of jumps to get to the Dance of the Compact Quartet.

I was quite nervous jumping into this system knowing the black hole was the primary and therefore I could be jumping into the plumes of one of the neutron stars or the white dwarf. Thankfully, I arrived safely. The black hole is somewhere behind me.

My first jump on leaving Galionas and I found my fourth untagged ELW!

First stop was Caeruleum Luna, a system with a Neutron star.

The Mysturji Crater on A 1 d at 72.16/156.99 is a distinctive crater and worth a visit. It was unfortunately quite dark when I arrived, although the contrast between the black surface and brilliant star field in the sky was impressive.