Trying to find real life star

[BlinkyFish]

Some buddies and I wanted to go visit the star where they recently discovered the exoplanet dubbed the pi planet due to its orbital period being 3.14 days. However, we can't figure out whether the star is actually in game or not. The star itself has a number of IDs in various catalogs: K2 315, EPIC 249631677, TIC 70298662, 2MASS J15120519-2006307, and Gaia 6255978483510095488. We've crash coursed our way through amateur astronomy and converting figures to celestial and galactic coordinates and I finally landed on a somewhat reliable means of deriving in game at least for stars closer to Earth. For the star we're looking at, 185 light years from Sol might be far enough away to throw off the math I was able to use earlier. I am aware that Elite does implement some means of galactic drift/velocity so stars further away may be impacted more.
Any suggestions or advice from other real life star hunters would be appreciated.

 

[Sapyx]

Of those catalogues you've listed, only some of the 2MASS catalogue is incorporated into ED.

FD only added stars that were already of some interst, back in 2014 when the ED galaxy map was created. Millions of stars that were boring - like 2MASS J23062928-0502285, for example - didn't make the cut.

2MASS J23062928-0502285 is of course now much more famously known as TRAPPIST-1, the star with half a dozen terrestrial planets found closely orbiting around it. TRAPPIST-1 was edited into the ED starmap by sacrificing a procedurally-generated system after the string of planets hit the popular press, but 2MASS J23062928-0502285 was not in ED prior to that. I suspect 2MASS J15120519-2006307 isn't in the ED map either, for the same reason.

If you know its star type, location, and distance, it's entirely possible to find an in-game analogue system. But the star itself won't be in ED.

I am aware that Elite does implement some means of galactic drift/velocity so stars further away may be impacted more.

Nope, sorry, the ED galaxy has no corrections for drift, or modelling of the passing of 1300 years between player-time and game-time. Real-universe stars in the ED galaxy are positioned where astronomers thought they ought to be positioned, according to data that was known in 2013. Which means the view of space from Sol is exactly the same as the view you see when you go outside and look up right now, rather than the view which ought to be visible if you were to go outside and look up in 3306.