Elite Dangerous Exploration how to find planets with no discovery scanner tutorial

(BETA 2) How does exploration work in Elite Dangerous beta 2? Is my D-scanner broken? How can I discover a planet in a star system?

Sometimes D-scanners don't pick up all the bodies in a system, but they are there and can be discovered using the Mk I Eyeball and a little knowledge of Newtonian mechanics and parallax displacement as used by Tycho Brahe to observe the heavens.

Why do scanners sometimes not work? Maybe its a bug but maybe there is a reason - My hypothesis is that the scanner works by detecting the gravity of the object, calculating its orbital path and making an estimate of where other bodies should be based on gravitation.. maybe for whatever reason in some systems it can't pinpoint a specific location this way because of.. i don't know my hypothesis breaks down at this point.

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[Starius]

this video is very underrated. Great explanation. Amazing examples. And awesomely quick drawn diagrams.

[JasonWD]

I discovered the same process by having to fly at my own escape vector away from planets to dock with a station that was super close to the planet. 
Great explanation!
It's a pity my scanner wont pick up the Unknown bodies any more though. (ticket submitted)

[OrcCorp]

Excellent tutorial! Not that I actually needed the information, just loving the way you did this :)
Altho one note: the basic scanner has a range of 500LS, so its good to use it always as you get near some objects found in this style. There can be some really small satelites around the planet that you can easily miss, so always use the scanner. Its free to use, it creates no heat or anything, so you can use it freely. And we all love the sound it makes :D

[KosiarzMad]

You should keep doing tutorials, not only because you explain things in nice way but also because you have good voice for it.

[notunremarkable]

Great to see knowledge of Newtonian physics being rewarded (if only a bit!) Good work.

[kunven]

Thanks for the guide, before your guide i was closing in to a star and filtering the objects that didnt faint away as much using the barnard loop as a reference, but yours is better

[Berksmickey]

Really useful video but on a small screen (mobile etc) it's really hard to spot the movements you pick out....would be super useful if you could annotate the clip with a target or something to really show the movement you see.

[JoarGuttormsen]

Awesome explanation, your a good explorer. And they have fixed the payment now. So it it much more rewarding.

[juliomontega]

Ahoy mate and thanks for the introduction into exploration,
now even a combat focused pilot like me understood basic exploratory techniques.

I hope you find your fortune by easing our pilot's lives with first hand discovery data.

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El Montega

[ericswenson]

Thanks so much for putting this together, it worked brilliantly. =)

[Chris.Davies]

Not Paralax: Relative Motion.

Moving 90 degrees away from the ecliptic results in the easiest discoveries.

[nexxo]

We don't need no steenkin' D-scanner, because SCIENCE, bitches! :) Nice work.

[human]

Great tutorial will be a big help. I've also seen some other tips and tricks, one being that the longer you can drag the "empty" map across then the more bodies there must be to fill it up.  Also if you discover the planets/moons out of order, there will be a gap in the sequence on the chart that lets you know you need to discover another body. Also if a body is named XXX A or 1 then you know there must be a B or 2 and obviously if you discovered bodies named XX A or 1 and XX C or 3, then you know there's an XX 2.  What I'm wondering is if the value of the data you collect is worth more the farther away from the system you get.  Obviously anyone around the system will know quite a bit about it, but say someone 300 light years away may never have heard of it and it might be worth more.  Also, can you only sell the information one time? or can you sell it every time you come across a new system, in effect swapping information on systems they have locally with information of systems you have gathered far away from them.

[AbideinChristSealed]

Ok so I went to a system with 2 suns.  This one had no orbit line to play off of...well I think I spotted a faded line, then it disappeared.  Sometimes I can spot stars in the distance because they're slightly larger than normal...but sometimes I end up flying towards something that I realize is the same as lots of other stars and I wasted my time.  I think I see a bright sun, but this time instead of flying straight for it...I aimed away from it so that I could just see it in the upper window.  I'll be damned it was moving like you said.  

[LeeNTien]

very logical, reached the same conclusion/result on my own, and it worked even in a system with the suns way too far away from each other to be able to see any movement against the background (200, 000+)...
But now I've jumped into a system with apparently 5 stars - found 3 - they are very close to each other, but no trace of the other two and no orbit pointers. What to do here? Just blunder about untill see something? >___<

[me]

I love your explanation but it was very hard for me to see the examples actually moving (I have since tried it on my own and had much better luck seeing them). If you are thinking of remaking it, I would use more clear examples.
Great tutorial though. gave me a great idea of how to approach exploring without an advanced scanner.

[SapphosSails]

I can't seem to deploy my discovery sensor. I have it in fire group 2 but when I try to use it it just says deploying hard points but nothing happens.

[stephenhill]

Alright i have a question.  I went to Andoe  which in the galaxy map is shown as a Binary system and i discovered Andoe A < the main star.  This video helped me find the second Star Andoe B but I can't seem to find anything else.  One of my main problems is that once the star or stars leave my field of view the orbital path disappears.  In this video i noticed the path of your sun stays visible no matter which way you are looking or your ship is pointing.  Any pointers?

[halian]

Thanks for the tutorial! just one question - how do you know which direction to fly to find the new object? The tutorial seems to imply that one must turn 180 degrees in the opposite direction from arriving out of hyperspace. It's not that simple is it? Appreciate the advice!

[JimVR]

Excellent tutorial, made me laugh at the end!