0.4 Cumulus (Getting lost)

[Excellerate]

So I've started 0.4 Cumulus, and I have a fairly decent ship. However... I'm dreadfully stuck. I went to the cluster of Charlie Station Southwest of spawn, and can't seem to find anything around them. I've had almost a dozen instances where I barely made it back to the stations with 1-3 oxygen left. Thankfully, I've yet to die.

Does anyone have reccomendations on which direction to head from the charlie cluster to find more stations?

[nemoricus]

I found a cluster of Charlie level stations due east of the starting cluster.

This is a really hard sector to navigate in, though. There's not much indication of where the other stations might be.

[sfsdfd]

Head straight south from the origin. There's a whole bunch of B-class stations just outside of radar range from the original cluster, and nearby higher-level stations within radar range of that one.

[Captain Michaela Nul'dolaer]

I hate this sector, it's a pain to navigate, and I can't seem to go far without suffocating or being blasted into oblivion...