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Is there a way to find duplicate star/galaxy/nebulae data?

Asked by Simon Jacobsen

While having a look about the night sky, as you do, I noticed two overlapping names, the same name too.
Is there a way I can look through the list of entries and delete any doubles?

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#1

Double names usually means a double star - they can be removed only recreating star catalogs

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Matthew Gates (matthew-porpoisehead) said : 		#2

This is a known problem. Current star labeling is done per star and is
only brightness dependent. Thus when there is a double or multiple
star system (optical or actual), with similar brightnesses, both with
get labelled.

We don't have a very good idea of how to solve this at the moment. To
my mind, the ideal would be to have Stellarium aware of doubles in
such a way that they are labelled with one label at wide fields of
view, and separately only when the FOV is small enough for this to be
done without overlapping. This is not very easy though.

On 29 November 2010 05:07, Alexander Wolf
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> Alexander Wolf proposed the following answer:
> Double names usually means a double star - they can be removed only
> recreating star catalogs
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Simon Jacobsen (jacobsen-simon) said : 		#3

Thanks for the help, If I can find the dupliacte, I'll tell you which one and where it is.