Stellarium

Constellation lines reference

Asked by Khalid AlAjaji

What is the reference used by Stellarium to draw constellation lines?
The lines as in the IAU site http://www.iau.org/public/constellations/ differ from those in Stellarium. A clear example are the lines of Capricronus, other examples: Eridanus and Scorpio.

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Best Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#1

I work over this task

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Khalid AlAjaji (kajaji) said : 		#2

Thanks Alexander Wolf, that solved my question.

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) said : 		#3

From the linked IAU page:

"In star maps it is common to mark line “patterns” that represent the shapes that give the name to the constellations. However, the IAU defines a constellation by its boundary (indicated by sky coordinates) and not by its pattern and the same constellation may have several variants in its representation."

Translation: There are no official IAU constellation figures/lines, only boundaries. Alexander should have waited for someone (Fabien?) to provide an answer instead of presuming that there is a problem.

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Khalid AlAjaji (kajaji) said : 		#4

Thanks Bogdan.
This is convincing, and I don't think this should prompt a bug, since it is not causing Stellarium to be faulty or give incorrect results. Any how my question came about because I saw different representations in wikipedia and in IAU for the constellations, and I thought there might be some kind of an official definitions.

and Thanks to Alexander for his enthusiasm.