Star catalogue duplication

[Frankymole]

Even in the Bubble it seems there are some stars that shouldn't be there! A-class stars are reasonably uncommon, but in the case of Beta-3 Tucanae, also known as Beta-3 Tucani, two separate populated systems some 80ly apart have been created in the game - when in reality there is only one star to represent.

The problem seems to have been caused by both the Gliese designation (Gl 9015) and the HIP/HD numbers being used separately, with slightly different coordinates from the two sources - or perhaps one or both of the sets of catalogue data was not converted properly to the Galactic Map. I wouldn't have noticed, but they put one of the Engineers at one of the doubled-up locations.

The SIMBAD entry is at: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/s...&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id

 

[Jackie Silver]

I've been finding a number of similar oddities recently, including invisible systems (you can search on the galmap and it takes you to them, but they aren't there; an example is HIP 97967 which should be a component of HIP 97966 but returns an invisible entry on the map; or HIP 113283 which I think should be a system in its own right) and cases where what should be one system with two distinctly catalogue numbered stars is split into two systems (e.g. MARSIK and KAPPA HERCULIS B should be a true binary, AIUI, but K H B is very far out of position and probably unvisited if someone is so inclined - you can only find it by searching on HIP 79045.) It's interesting trawling through them...

 

[Frankymole]

Very intriguing Jackie! Do let me know if you find any more interesting ones. When I'm back in the Bubble I might do a tour of them.