Stellarium 0.13.1.82 stars misplaced

[Khalid AlAjaji]

Alphekka Meridiana - HIP 94144 should be HIP 94114

and

Brachium (α2 Lib - 9 Lib) - HIP 72622

should be:

Sigma Librae (σ Lib, σ Librae) HIP 73714

according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Librae
and
http://www.astrostudio.org/xhip.php?hip=73714

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 7164 of the trunk branch of Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/7164

[Jon Seamans (silvy5)]

I disagree, Stellarium 13.182 correctly labels and positions the three stars in question. The sources presented earlier are not established primary astronomical databases. I conclude that they are both wrong.

1) I've manually crosschecked the HIP number with SIMBAD (which is also a default search database for Stellarium)   http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fbasic

2) I also crosschecked SIMBAD star coordinates and IDs with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog (SAO). I used HD (Henry Draper) ID in the SAO search. http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/db-perl/W3Browse/w3table.pl?tablehead=name%3Dsao&Action=More+Options

3) Sigma Librae, HIP 73714 is also correctly position and labeled within Stellarium and the databases mentioned here.

Bottom Line: Stellarium agrees with two well established, primary astronomical databases. There is no bug for the noted stars' label or position.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Jon, this issue related to names of stars - it's not related with coordinates of the stars.

[Jon Seamans (silvy5)]

My bad.
Thanks for the clarification Alexander.

[Khalid AlAjaji (kajaji)]

Jon, Thanks. In fact you were helpful. We need careful eyes and minds to get this software as perfect as possible.

and thanks for the Smithsonian link.

Khalid