Search for 16 Vir leads to 106 Vir instead

[Ramaswamy]

Using Stellarium 12.2 with u1 patch.

When invoking F3 to locate 16 Vir (near eta Vir), I was directed to HIP 70794 (near mu Vir). The real 16 Vir is actually marked as "c Vir - 16 Vir" and is HIP 70794, and an F3 search for "c Vir" takes me there. A check with the list of Virgo Stars at Wikipeadia shows that the (incorrect) star HIP 70794 is in fact 106 Vir. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_in_Virgo

BTW, I really like the dual naming of stars in12.2, by including Flamsteed numbers. And the Limiting Magnitude options for Stars and Nebulae is most welcome after having downloaded all stars to mag 16.5 in a fit of super-optimism. Thank you!

Cheers,
Ramaswamy

[Ramaswamy (ramax2)]

Oh dear, I failed to take that extra step in this matter, hence this addendum...
Wikipedia say 106 Vir is not a known identifier, so the Subject line of this bug has to be corrected, sorry!

But still the Stellarium database directs one to HIP 70794 when looking for 16 Vir, and that is incorrect. 16 Vir is HIP 60172.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 6212 of the trunk branch in Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/6212

[Ramaswamy (ramax2)]

After noting similarity with Bug #1181534 (109 Vir vs. 19 Vir), I looked at the 100-109 Virginis range of entries and was about to report 5 more suspect entries, but you have beaten me to it... Good show! And Thanks!

Cheers,
Ramaswamy