12 Sep 3302
Waving goodbye to the Witch Head, I plotted the next leg of my journey. 20 hops and about 460 lightyears V417 Orionis, deep in the guts of the Orion Nebula.
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| Busy Neighborhood |
The flight out there was fairly monotonous. Yellow star after Yellow star, but the view kept getting better.
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| Yes. |
And better.
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| Oh yes. |
But then, I got to my next destination, and it was...underwhelming.
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| Wait, what? |
It turns out that the insides of nebulae tend to be full of very (relatively) thick, opaque dust, and it tends to obscure pretty much everything further away than your windscreen. Lesson learned. Nebulae are prettiest at about 100 lightyears.
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| Or a few hundreds |
CMDR Aubrey Herreshoff,
Signing off.
== EOT ==
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