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Luck. I've gone out for weeks of realtime and discovered hundeds of systems nobody else has, and other times just dozens, and money varies wildly. Totally depends on what you find.

My earliest trip was with a Cobra, I didn't even have a proper discovery scanner (just intermediate), and it wasn't that long. I discovered black holes, neutron stars and a boatload of earthlike planets, and every system seemed to be filled with metal rich rather than rocky. Made more that trip in any since, even properly tooled up.

These days, probably thanks to your filter (which wasn't there when I did this) you simply don't find these things undiscovered and get double pay for them any more - unless you go WAY out.