After approx. 300hrs of Survival gameplay, I decided to do more of the "story" questline (until now, I'd basically been just "doing my own thing").

The storyline quest 'A Leap In The Dark' had me activate (for my first time), a Portal, and go through it. Then I had to find my ship.

The system it sent me to is "Uncharted" and has no Starbase (or, if it does, there is no icon for it and I haven't found it), so I built a small basic base with transporter on one of its planets, in order to be able to come and go to the system. That works fine - I can come and go between this far-flung system, and my "homebase" systems, no problem.

But, when looking at the system on the Galaxy Map, I cannot tell where I am "in space" relative to my "home" systems (how far away, or in what direction).

My question: Is there a way to "see" where that system is, in the galaxy, relative to my "home" system?

To see how far away, and in what direction it is? Perhaps get some of those same "directional lines" that guide you between system jumps to the Galactic Core, or those Atlas stations, or Black Holes, so that you can plot a warp-jump path to the new area (so, for example, you can jump your freighter to the area)?

Anything (perhaps something I am missing)?

Thanks in advance!

Just to clarify in case you don't already know this. But when you are in the galactic map, there is a representation of the galaxy in the upper left corner. There will be a yellow circle showing your rough, current location. With a line possibly showing how far out of the galactic plane you are. Underneath is a number showing how many lightyears you are from the galactic center.

So for a rough idea of location and distance, you can look at the map, note where you are, then warp to the other location and look at the map again. This would help you just how far it is, because the pathway line in the map only goes so far. Less then a 1000 LY as I recall.

I thank both of you (dashiichi and Cleggster) for your assistance.

Also, I've given up on warping between the two systems.

Initially, I wanted to warp all the way there before marking dashiichi's post as the answer, but after approximately 16,0000 LY's of warping, I've barely "moved the needle" to there. However, dashiichi's post is the specific answer to my question, so now that I've given up, I've marked it. Thank you, dashiichi!

I don't think I'd ever used that "mark a waypoint in the Discoveries list", and I more or less forgot it was even there (if I'd ever even noticed it). But it does appear that that is the way to do it.

So, I started my journey, warping each "leg" as far as I could (my ship can warp 719LY's). Along the way, I discovered that I don't actually need to follow the line "exactly", but can just follow the direction "more or less", and it will re-compute from wherever you are. That came in very handy, because many times the "line" to follow only went like 400LY, but I could find another system beyond that in the same general direction, but closer to my ship's 719LY reach (thus reducing the total number of warps).

Also, along the way, I bought a better freighter; and in several of the "Uncharted" systems that came up along the path, I would stop and build a small base so I could come and go there more easily in the future. I gave up doing that after awhile, as there began to be plenty of Uncharted system in my list, and I didn't feel I needed to have a base in every single one.

Cleggster, I did not know about those Galactic Map features you pointed out (except I did know, from my warping, about the "less than 1000LY" pathway line (which, for me, was often more like 400LY-500LY). Once I read your post, I did just that - took a look at where I was currently along the way, and from my starting point, and the end system.

That's when I decided I would "give up"! After approximately 16,000LY of warping, I realized that I had traveled just a bare fraction of the total journey.

To show that, I've attached an image sheet (190K) with my starting, current, and destination systems, each shown in the Galactic Map. Phew - I still had a long, long, long..... way to go. No way.

[Edit]: Apparently, I misinterpreted my Freighter not being able to be "called" to a system as due to the distance - when that doesn't seem to be an issue - the more probable reason was that the system was of a star-type for which I have not yet installed the Red-Green-Blue Star-Type warp upgrades. Sigh.. All this time I could easily call my Freighter to the far-flung systems but didn't try because of that misinterpretation. Live and learn... :)

[Edit 2]: I entered the (X, Y, Z) coords into that web-app, and now I REALLY know how fruitless of a task I had gotten myself into. I had no idea. LOL.

The result:

Start: 0D5D:007F:0373:007A
End: 0165:007B:05BB:0179

Route Summary:
Direct Route 1,247,664 LY, 1,738 jumps in 2,842 minutes
Using DaRC 69 jumps in 145 minutes
Reduction 96.03% fewer jumps, 94.89% less time
Cornell Index 4 Black Holes

Thanks to both of you, I now know a great deal more about NMS distances and how to "see" where I am in the galaxy.