Comment 26 for bug 1124221

Hello Alexander,

Can you tell what was the reason of this re-packing? Can you tell em what
was found? Thanks for working on this.

Thanks.

All the best,

Victor

On 1 March 2013 05:25, Alexander Wolf <email address hidden> wrote:

> Catalogs stars0..stars3 will be re-packed in new version.
>
> ** Changed in: stellarium
> Milestone: None => 0.12.1
>
> ** Changed in: stellarium
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)
>
> ** Changed in: stellarium
> Status: Confirmed => In Progress
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> Title:
> Stellarium uses Hypparcos star coordinates from J2000.0 instead of
> J1991.25
>
> Status in Stellarium:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> It looks that the RA/DE(J2000) on date/time 2000/1/1 12:00 (aka
> J2000.0) in
> Stellarium is precisely the value that is defined in Hipparcos (which is
> defined at J1991.25).
> Example: in
> http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=HIPPARCOS&page=multisearch2 ,
> Sirius is in Hipparcos catalogue (being J1991.25) at:
> H| 32349| |06 45 09.25|-16 42 47.3
>
> If I look at Stellarium on Date/time 1991/1/1 18:00 GMT (J1991.25) I get:
> RA/DE (J2000): 6h45m9.6s/-16°42'35.8"
>
> And on date/time 2000/1/1/ 12:00 GMT (J2000.0)I get in Stellarium:
> RA/DE (J2000): 6h45m9.3s/-16°42'47.3"
>
> I am using 0.12.0 and 0.12.1, Windows XP Pro, SP3,
>
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