One of our stars is missing!

Brieus

Brieus
Kappa-2 Sagittarii is not there, it's been blown away!!

Also known as HD 193807 or HIP 100591 it doesn't come up in the Galaxy Map in game. Kappa-1 Sagittarii HIP 100469 shows up and is even name Kappa-1. No Kappa-2 however.
 

Irisa Nyira

Irisa Nyira
They are both in the system labelled Kappa-1 Sagittarii on the Galaxy Map. It's a binary system, and if you jump in you'll actually be next to Kappa-2, because it's slightly more massive. K-1 is nearly 2 million light seconds away.

I have no idea why the Galaxy Map is throwing a fit and highlighting some nice empty space if you search for HD 193807. Weird bug, that.
 

Brieus

Brieus
Hmm, you'd think that with different HIP and HD numbers they'd be in different systems. But whatever.

I'm out past 13 Mu Sagittarii right now, heading for Beagle Point, then Sgr A*. I'll have to stop by Kappa-1 Sgr later in my quest to visit all the named stars in Sagittarius.
 

varonica

varonica
Brieus said:
Hmm, you'd think that with different HIP and HD numbers they'd be in different systems. But whatever.

I'm out past 13 Mu Sagittarii right now, heading for Beagle Point, then Sgr A*. I'll have to stop by Kappa-1 Sgr later in my quest to visit all the named stars in Sagittarius.
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No, many stars that were originally identified as two stars were later found to be binaries. They have a catalogue number each, which is correct because they are identifiable by instruments as two stars, they just happen to be in a binary arrangement.
 

Eahlstan

E
varonica said:
No, many stars that were originally identified as two stars were later found to be binaries. They have a catalogue number each, which is correct because they are identifiable by instruments as two stars, they just happen to be in a binary arrangement.
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While this is true in general it isn't true regarding those two stars. (But actually most of the time it's the other way: one star turns out to be multiple stars.)

Kappa-1 is a single star, and Kappa-2 is two stars.
And if you plot a map spanning 10 arcmin around Kappa-1 and one around Kappa-2 you can see that those systems aren't that close to each other that they could be mistaken to be one.
It's a classical Frontier bug.
 
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Sapyx

Sapyx
I don't know if the knowledge about these two stars has changed int he past decade, but by current knowledge, the two stars are about 100 LY apart - K1 is 220-226 LY away, K2 is 300-320 LY away.

I'll have to pop by Sol and take a screenshot, to see if there's another star shining where the missing star ought to be.
 
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