I recently looked at my Remote Sensing skill and it says this:

The ability to gather and analyze remote sensing data from satellites in orbit around a planet and produce properly calibrated surveys.

Level 1: allows scans within 1 ly
Level 2: allows scans within 3 ly
Level 3: allows scans within 5 ly
Level 4: allows scans within 7 ly
Level 5: allows scans within 9 ly

Exactly how far is a lightyear? I assume it is one jump but I doubt it. Any clarification is appreciated.

You can calculate how far (in terms of jump length) a lightyear is by looking at the length of the jump itself:

1 AU (the distance between Earth and the Sun) is approximately 93 mllion miles, and one light-year is (again, approximately) 63240 AU.

A Jaguar crosses that distance easily in one jump, but other ships might require two if their capacitor bottoms out.

(And, just because I like numbers: one light-year (93,000,000 x 63240) = around 5,881,320,000,000 miles. Try walking that far to get to school... ;) )

In-game, a light-year is the DIRECT distance to the star as seen on the star map (unflattened). In my opinion CCP doesn't give very good tools for calculating it. If you select "My planet scan range" (something like that) in the map options it will highlight systems you can scan and give the ly distance to those, I think they should extend that to all systems.

The give the data in the datadump (x,y,z) and sites like DOTLAN use it it to calculate jump costs.

About 31.6 million Lightseconds.

Edit: Yep, I am surprisingly bad at math. My parents would be horrified.

same lenght as the light travels in a year. You're welcome man

I recently looked at my Remote Sensing skill and it says this:

The ability to gather and analyze remote sensing data from satellites in orbit around a planet and produce properly calibrated surveys.

Level 1: allows scans within 1 ly
Level 2: allows scans within 3 ly
Level 3: allows scans within 5 ly
Level 4: allows scans within 7 ly
Level 5: allows scans within 9 ly

Exactly how far is a lightyear? I assume it is one jump but I doubt it. Any clarification is appreciated.

I recently looked at my Remote Sensing skill and it says this:

The ability to gather and analyze remote sensing data from satellites in orbit around a planet and produce properly calibrated surveys.

Level 1: allows scans within 1 ly
Level 2: allows scans within 3 ly
Level 3: allows scans within 5 ly
Level 4: allows scans within 7 ly
Level 5: allows scans within 9 ly

Exactly how far is a lightyear? I assume it is one jump but I doubt it. Any clarification is appreciated.

Congratulations GD. To this reasonable question there are only two serious and helpful answers in this thread. All others are purposely missing the point or direct towards third party tools for JUMP range calculations, which are also not what OP has asked for.

Congratulations GD. To this reasonable question there are only two serious and helpful answers in this thread. All others are purposely missing the point or direct towards third party tools for JUMP range calculations, which are also not what OP has asked for.

Are you including yours to "all others",
or is that a blind spot?

Sorry in what way is this barely high school-level question reasonable for an adult with access to internet to ask?

Sorry in what way is this barely high school-level question reasonable for an adult with access to internet to ask?

Well, I'm assuming you realize OP was really asking how many systems distant from his present system he could scan since it's not apparent from the starmap in game, and not the actual miles or kilometers light travels in a vacuum. And yeah, everyone could google it or whatever, but how is his question then unreasonable or grade schoolish. He wanted clarification about in game distances between systems.


Edit: Ninja'd by Cebraio as I was typing

And yeah, everyone could google it or whatever, but how is his question then unreasonable or grade schoolish. He wanted clarification about in game distances between systems.

OP was really asking how many systems distant from his present system he could scan since it's not apparent from the starmap in game

He may have phrased it badly, but if you read the OP and not just the headline, it's obvious that he is talking about in-game representation.

What makes you think he's an adult btw? EVE is rated pegi 12.

No, it really isnt.

Yes, it really is. Unless you're purposely missing the point. Buuuuuuut anyway, I'm out of here. I forgot to bring my high horse, so I can't stay with you.

Congratulations GD. To this reasonable question there are only two serious and helpful answers in this thread. All others are purposely missing the point or direct towards third party tools for JUMP range calculations, which are also not what OP has asked for.

No, it really isnt.

I recently looked at my Remote Sensing skill and it says this:

The ability to gather and analyze remote sensing data from satellites in orbit around a planet and produce properly calibrated surveys.

Level 1: allows scans within 1 ly
Level 2: allows scans within 3 ly
Level 3: allows scans within 5 ly
Level 4: allows scans within 7 ly
Level 5: allows scans within 9 ly

Exactly how far is a lightyear? I assume it is one jump but I doubt it. Any clarification is appreciated.

And normally you guys are good at poasting

You must be new

Found the white knight.

Wait.....

Because continuing a pointless discussion with you would equal to good posting, right? I rather be a bad poster then.

Exactly how far is a lightyear? I assume it is one jump

Uh huh. And this is a sensible, non-idiotic question that cant be looked up in seconds, quineg?

Irrelevant

can we get a banana for scale ?

Give or take gravitional distortion and the observer's perception based on the point and condition inherent in that observation.

What? Light travels the same speed in all reference frames.

depends on the medium it is traveling through (light in water is considerably slower than in air and that is again slower than in a vacuum, it's the principle refraction is based on), though gravitic lensing primarily changes the direction photos are travelling in, not their speed so much, though the visual effect is quite similar to refraction.

depends on the medium it is traveling through (light in water is considerably slower than in air and that is again slower than in a vacuum, it's the principle refraction is based on), though gravitic lensing primarily changes the direction photos are travelling in, not their speed so much, though the visual effect is quite similar to refraction.

... following the straightest path through curved space-time ...

This is inaccurate.

Light always travels at the same speed.

When light travels through a medium,
it spends time interacting with "stuff", (atoms absorbing and re-emitting)
which makes it appear to be slower,
while it actually isn't.

Medium is independent of reference frame. If light is traveling through water it'll still be traveling through water if I look at it standing on the shore or in a spaceship in orbit. And it'll be traveling at the same speed from both perspectives.

Gravitational lensing doesn't actually change the path of light - the light is merely following the straightest path through curved space-time, so it appears to bend because of the local curvature of space.

Oh ok. Sorry.

I thought that the passage of time appeared to be altered the closer to the speed of light you reached, therefore the length of time to travel the sdistance would vary depending if you were the subject or the object.

I really am trying to remember this stuff from school, so Ill take your word for it :)

By the way, this is why time dilation happens: something that's moving very fast relative to you is moving through space, but since they can only travel through spacetime at c, they have to be moving more slowly through time to compensate (from your point of view).

I can't believe Tesla asked this question. This has to be a troll thread.

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/22pi7o/eli5_why_does_light_travel/

This might be interesting for you.

It's not for those who believe they can read things and understand it immediately.


Great read.


A relevant part regarding time dilation:

Uh huh. And this is a sensible, non-idiotic question that cant be looked up in seconds, quineg?

Well, I did ask and this is not a troll thread (at least on my part)

Anyhow, thank you to the people that helped me out, it turns out I was missing a part and I found some helpful tools for future use.

1 AU is about 8.32 light minutes (.32 minutes ~= 19 seconds).
As said earlier, light doesn't travel slower in a medium, what happens is that it's absorbed (photon energy excites a valence electron in the material) and re-emitted some time later (excited electron releases its energy in the form of a photon to return to the base energy state).
And again, light doesn't actually bend. Light always travels in a straight path. The space that the light is traveling through is curved.

They can stop it entirely now.

In RL a light year is roughly a quarter way to Alpha centauri, our nearest neighbour 4.37ly

If I wanted to get to the Andromeda galaxy (approx 2.5m ly), how many jumps would I have to make in a tricked out, max skilled, jump freighter?

Mr Epeen

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+far+is+a+light+year

1 AU is about 8.32 light minutes (.32 minutes ~= 19 seconds).
As said earlier, light doesn't travel slower in a medium, what happens is that it's absorbed (photon energy excites a valence electron in the material) and re-emitted some time later (excited electron releases its energy in the form of a photon to return to the base energy state).
And again, light doesn't actually bend. Light always travels in a straight path. The space that the light is traveling through is curved.

Yes, so if you could travel at the speed off light, it would take you 4.37 years to reach Alpha Centauri. (or you could get lost in space.)

-Kirst