starnames.dat

[HB]

Not sure if this is the right place to mentioned the points below.

In starnames.dat are two stars wich do not have a reference in the stars.dat database.

96295:Campbell's Star
35488:Bernes 135

Also there's a double colon by this star after the HIPnumber:

3829::Van Maanen's Star:Van Maanen 2:Wolf 28:Gliese 35


It not really a bug, so is there perhaps any other purpose for this??

Hans.

[selden]

Hans,

I've been informed by Grant that there are many entries in starnames.dat for stars that aren't in stars.dat. That won't change. Those stars may be added later, either in stars.dat or in STC files.

However, the double-colon problem will be fixed in the next release of Celestia.