[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Show names for 'a Centauri' etc.

[Akarsh Simha]

> On Tue July 15 2008, you wrote:
> > This patch shows the names for stars like 'a Centauri' etc. Which are
> > stored in the catalog as '.a  Cen'. I hope there was no reason to
> > avoid this.
> 
> Names starting with a dot were my invention.  I made those names up and
> they should not be shown to the user.  The idea was they were "hidden"
> names, sort of like hidden files in a Unix file system.  I created them
> so we could draw constellation lines to stars that had no official name.

But I noticed that there was actually a star called a Centauri that
matched the star named .a Cen in our catalogs (RA, Dec,
etc). (Wikipedia on 'A Centauri' has a disambiguation link to 'a
Centauri')

Is this purely a coincidence, or are these star names actually
correct?

Regards
Akarsh
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