Three Search Bugs

[henrysky]

My platform: stellarium revision 6595 Mac OSX 10.9.2
Sorry for my laziness for reporting three bugs in one bug report

1st. There is no respond for searching IC100 and IC200 while stellarium shows there is IC100 and IC200 in the stellarium star database (I just pick some to test and found these two, dont know if there are other search problems related to IC catalog)

2nd. I think "NGC" is not a search recommendation as shown in image......

3rd. For example, I want to search NGC1342 and I typed "N1342", a search recommendation is shown "NGC1342"
But when I press enter, stellarium center NGC1342 but no object information shown and only center, not tracking even I press space bar......

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

All of these issues seem to be caused by Stellarium using on-line search results from the SIMBAD database. In case you are unfamiliar with it, note the "Simbad lookup: found" message in all screenshots. SIMBAD returns coordinates, not Stellarium objects, so results from SIMBAD can't be tracked.

The third case is not-exactly a bug. You are not entering a valid object name - normally, one wouldn't expect to be able to find an object. Still, as apparently SIMBAD kind-of matches it, we can probably do something about it.

[henrysky (henry-leung-2010)]

I think IC100 and IC 200 indeed existed in stellarium database, it still show IC100 and IC200 recommendation after I have disabled SIMBAD result.....but after I press enter, nothing happen.....

[Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab)]

It's also an issue with search results. A possible solution is to use
SIMBAD to get pseudonyms (don't we get that anyway) and look at them for
those that Stellarium supports (HIP and NGC).

And in all cases we need to improve the GUI. That SIMBAD messages were a
work in progress that got exposed prematurely.

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

Stellarium DSO catalog contains IC100 and IC200 but those objects don't have some data for visualization (type and magnitude for example).

[Alexander Wolf (alexwolf)]

A fix has been committed as revision 7772 of the trunk branch of Stellarium's Bazaar repository at Launchpad: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/revision/7772