DB are you running into any trouble finding fuel stars by not filtering? I was considering doing the same, figuring I'd run across some lesser traveled areas that way.
Oh the rookie mistakes I made when I first started playing ED. One of the more infamous ones was running out of fuel because I had somehow run into a huge brown dwarf field and only realized it when it was too late. Ah well, it was just like 150k I lost since it was a lowly Cobra Mk III.