As long as you've got a grasp on the ship controls and gameplay, which you can find in the other guides, this should be a relatively simple way to find the anomaly. You will need a cellphone camera or some equivalent that can take clear enough pictures of your monitor that you will be able to use them as your reference.

You're going to need to find an observatory star. I generated my own world so I wouldn't spoil any existing seasons and ended up very lucky with my method. The second star I visited was an observatory and it only took visiting three stars to reach the anomaly

Once you find an observatory, you can align the anomaly in the sky with constellations or star clusters that your eyes find easy to identify and take a picture of it.


This method is going to be pretty much 100% pattern recognition, so whatever your eyes and brain think works best you can use to orient yourself in the sky around the anomaly. This is the pattern I picked out to orient myself. It helps me to pick out a formation with closely clustered stars since those are less common, meaning you'll get fewer false positives while searching for it later.

You can complete the star now and name it for yourself if it isn't already. Once you've gotten back to the ship, you'll want to activate the button on the bottom-right corner of the star map display to get rid of any of the stars behind you(this will make the last part a lot easier), and begin to look around from the cockpit to locate some part of that constellation from your reference picture.

It may not be oriented the same way that it is on your camera, so when you think you've found a match, you can turn your phone till it matches what you think you're seeing and check other surrounding stars to confirm it's a real match. It can be a little bit finicky cause some of the stars can be so small that you have to adjust the camera to make them appear.

If you aren't able to find it, it could be behind your star map display, and you'll have to rotate the ship to reveal the stars behind the display.

Once you do find it, it helps if you move the constellation closer to the display so you don't have to rotate your view too much to check it and so that it will be somewhere in front of you so that you can filter out the stars behind you in the starmap to make it easier to find.

The reason that the filtering button on the bottom right of the star map is so helpful is that it will filter out stars that are behind you from the map and will also highlight stars that you hover over while panning through the map.

Panning through the map to find it can be a little confusing. I would recommend panning out from the center up and to the left or right over stars until the marker is showing up somewhere in the general vertical band of the star you are looking for and search through it higher and lower than you think you need to. You can also put the constellation above the center of the star map to make it easier. The star map is not a perfect 1:1 representation of where the stars are because it is a 3D spherical map so sometimes stars on the map will show up lower on the star field than ones they are higher than on the map and vice versa. With some patience you'll eventually find what you're looking for and you can fly out to it.


If it turns out not to be the right one, you can backtrack to the star you came from and give it another shot. If for some reason you aren't able to work it out from the star you're on, you can try to find another one that you can see the anomaly from and run it all again from that one.