κ Sco s/b Girtab, Girtab s/b Sargas

[Daniel Morgan]

I believe a couple stars in Scorpius may be mislabeled.

According to wikipedia:

κ Sco is named Girtab
θ Sco is named Sargas

Currently in Stellarium:

κ Sco is labeled κ Sco
θ Sco is labeled Girtab

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Here theta Sco is Girtab - http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/girtab.html

[Daniel Morgan (morgan-daniel)]

How is an authority determined?

The Mythology of the Night Sky: An Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Ancient Greek and Roman Legends by David E. Falkner was cited in the Wiki article. Here is the page in google Books:

https://books.google.com/books?id=tyj8UUE968wC&pg=PA106&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by Richard Hinkley Allen - Sargas and Girtab is names of theta Sco (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Scorpio*.html)

Pronunications, Derivations, and Meanings of a Selected List of Star Names by George A. Davis, Jr - Sargas and Girtab is names of theta Sco.

A Dictionary of Modern Star Names (Second Revised Edition) by Paul Kunitzsch and Tim Smart - Sargas and Girtab is names of theta Sco.

Ian Ridpath - theta Sco is Girtab - http://www.ianridpath.com/starnames.htm

theta Sco is Sargas - http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/hr/6553.html, http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.html and http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=sargas&submit=SIMBAD+search

On my first link - http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/girtab.html - Girtab and Sargas is names of theta Sco.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

theta Sco is Sargas now: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/7850