Andromeda asterism lines are incomplete

Bug #1515951 reported by Todd
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Stellarium
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Bug Description

When showing constellation lines, Andromeda is missing the following line, starting from HIP 677 (Alpheratz) to HIP2912 to HIP4436 to HIP7607. This line is particularly important since it not only completes the lines for the constellation, it really helps in finding the Andromeda galaxy. Verification for this line as part of Andromeda can be found in most any star atlas. My reference happens to be "The Cambridge Star Atlas" 4th ed. 4th printing, 2014, by Wil Tirion. Thank you! And thank you for such an excellent program. Todd Longfellow, Payson, AZ.

Changed in stellarium:
status: New → Opinion
importance: Undecided → Low
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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote :

Does not exist the "true lines" of constellations and the various atlases has different lines for constellations.

For example, see Andromeda:
1) on IAU website: http://www.iau.org/static/public/constellations/gif/AND.gif
2) on Wikipedia website: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andromeda_constellation_map_ru_lite.png
3) on ESO website: https://www.eso.org/public/outreach/eduoff/cas/cas2002/cas-projects/france_andromeda_1/const.gif
4) on stargazing.net: http://www.stargazing.net/david/gif/constellations/andromeda518x386.gif
5) on school-portal.co.uk: http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupDownloadFile.asp?GroupId=245765&ResourceId=988252
6) etc.

You can use various Western skycultures (H.A. Ray or Sky & Telescope's set of lines ) or a create a own one.

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) wrote :
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