Impossible to find M40 and M45 with F3

[Giorgio]

In vers. BZR r4715 (windows) if I search with "search window" (F3) Messier objects, I found all of its, but not M40 (double star)and M45 (Pleiades)!

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

Some explanations from me, I'll let Fabien decide what to do about it:

Both problems are due to the way Stellarium handles object names.

M40 is a star, so it's not in the nebula catalog, but Stellarium has some problems handling star name synonyms. It's possible that "M40" is not even in the list of synonyms.

I guess that the problem with the Pleiades is similar.

In both cases, you can at least slew to the object - just write the full name (e.g. "M45") and wait a second for the implicit on-line search in SIMBAD to return a result (it will be "Winnecke 4" for "M40"). The object will not be selected, but it will be centered when you press Enter.

[Giorgio (giorpass)]

Thank you, Bodgan.
It’s a pity if this "bug" wouldn't be correct.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

For M45 fix was committed in revision 4989 - http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/4989

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

In current implementation of catalogue for DSO we can't add M40 (M40 is not DSO - it's double star). I'm mark this bug as "fix committed" for M45 but we need make new catalogue of deep sky objects.