I found it useful that Cartes du Ciel allowed one to copy star data from the screen to the clipboard. I much prefer Stellarium in all other respects, but would very much like to be able to capture the star data that appears when a star is selected. I'm also curious why Stellarium only includes the Hipparcos star names while star names from other catalogs are not given. This information is valuable for cross reference purposes when searching on-line data bases like VizieR. It would also help in figuring out why some stars do not appear in the Stellarium sky when they do in our astrophotos. For example, the star
Tycho 4505-467 at Vmag ~11.5 (01 15 09.409 +82 01 55.290) which is also
TASS4 5251850 at Vmag ~11.9 (01 15 10.09 +82 01 55.6) and
2MASS J01150955+8201543 at Vmag ~12 (01 15 09.47 +82 01 54.4) does not appear in Stellarium, but in its place is apparently a star of magnitude 16.4 that I cannot find in the NOMAD catalog at the coordinates given by Stellarium
(01 15 09.5 +82 01 54.0).
2012-01-14T00:50:01
Windows XP
Compiled with GCC 4.4.0
Qt runtime version: 4.7.4
Qt compilation version: 4.7.4
Addressing mode: 32-bit
Total memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Total virtual memory: 2047 MB (unreliable)
Physical memory in use: 30%
Processor speed: 3000 MHz
Processor name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Processor speed: 3000 MHz
Processor name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
C:\Program Files\Stellarium\stellarium.exe
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[ This is Stellarium 0.11.1 - http://www.stellarium.org ]
[ Copyright (C) 2000-2011 Fabien Chereau et al ]
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Writing log file to: "C:/Documents and Settings/HP_Administrator/Application Data/Stellarium/log.txt"
File search paths:
0 . "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium"
1 . "."
Config file is: "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium/config.ini"
OpenGL supported version: "3.3.0"
Qt GL paint engine is: "OpenGL2"
Cache directory is: "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\stellarium\stellarium\cache"
Sky language is "en"
Application language is "en"
Loading Solar System data ...
Loaded 65 / 65 planet orbits from "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium/data/ssystem.ini"
Loading star data ...
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_0_0v0_1.cat": 0_0v0_1; 5013"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_1_0v0_1.cat": 1_0v0_1; 21999"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_2_0v0_1.cat": 2_0v0_1; 151416"
"Loading "./stars/default/stars_3_1v0_0.cat": 3_1v0_0; 434064"
"Loading "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium/stars/default/stars_4_1v0_0.cat": 4_1v0_0; 1725497"
"Loading "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium/stars/default/stars_5_2v0_0.cat": 5_2v0_0; 7669011"
"Loading "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium/stars/default/stars_6_2v0_0.cat": 6_2v0_0; 26615233"
"Loading "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium/stars/default/stars_7_2v0_0.cat": 7_2v0_0; 57826266"
Finished loading star catalogue data, max_geodesic_level: 7
navigation/preset_sky_time is a double - treating as jday: 2.45151e+06
Loaded 10051 NGC records
Loading NGC name data ...
Loaded 222 / 222 NGC name records successfully
Loading star names from "./skycultures/western/star_names.fab"
Loaded 230 / 230 common star names
Loading star names from "./stars/default/name.fab"
Loaded 3215 / 4359 scientific star names
Loaded 88 / 88 constellation records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 85 / 85 constellation art records successfully for culture "western"
Loaded 89 / 89 constellation names
Loading constellation boundary data ...
Loaded 782 constellation boundary segments
Creating GUI ...
Loaded plugin "Oculars" .
Ocular plugin - press Command-O to toggle eyepiece view mode. Press ALT-o for configuration.
Oculars::validateIniFile ocular.ini exists at: "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium/modules/Oculars/ocular.ini" . Checking version...
Oculars::validateIniFile found existing ini file version 2
Loaded plugin "Satellites" .
Satellites::getJsonFileVersion() version from file: "0.6.4"
Satellites::init using satellite.json file: "C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\Application Data\Stellarium/modules/Satellites/satellites.json"
Loaded plugin "SolarSystemEditor" .
Using the ssystem.ini file that already exists in the user directory...
Loaded plugin "TimeZoneConfiguration" .
A fix has been committed as revision 5191 of the trunk branch in Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad:
http://