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Bear in mind that the larger star databases use data from an earlier revision of the Hipparcos catalogue and also incorporate code that generated spurious binary systems out of line-of-sight doubles. Getting rid of these fake binaries, which occasionally placed a nearby star at a distance of thousa...

This did it.

Thank you all so very much!

Canis Majoris beautiful!

Have you tried pressing the ENTER key, and then typing in HIP 35793 ? This works on my system, but I also have the 2.5 million stars DB which is available from the Motherlode. Hope that helps, Brain-Dead Bob Thanks Bob. I've been to the Motherlode. If you could provide a pointer as to where on ther...

I've done a search on this and cannot find VY Canis Majoris in my Celestia 1.6.0 I have tried Navigation Goto Object: VY Canis Majoris, HIP 35793 with 1 space and with 2 spaces, and with SAO 173591 and it still does not show up. I have looked for several other stars in the same way and have had no p...