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Search doesn't find satellite TIANGONG

Asked by Paul Gilmartin

TIANGONG 1 appears in satellites.json. It shows in the
viewer if I know where to look. I can remove it with the
plugin configuration tool; it vanishes from satellites.json.
I reinstall it with the config tool; it reappears in
satellites.json.

But Search won't find it. I copied and pasted TIANGONG
from satellites.json to the Search window to make sure I
had no typos. Still not found. No such problem with other
satellites, such as ISS.

Stellarium 0.11.4. Mac OS X

Hardware Overview:
  Model Name: MacBook
  Model Identifier: MacBook2,1
  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed: 2 GHz

System Software Overview:
  System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
  Kernel Version: Darwin 10.8.0

Thanks,
gil

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Khalid AlAjaji (kajaji) said : 		#1

I have the same issue. Windows Vista.

You can double click on TIANGONG 1 in the satellites list. It will be found. Also search will find it through NORAD 37820.

It seems that all satellites with names that start with letters (O - Z) cannot be found through search by name, but can be found by their catalog #.

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#2

Pleasem try search NORAD 37820

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Paul Gilmartin (paulgboulder) said : 		#3

Agreed with Khalid. It finds "NOAA 15" and "NORAD 37820", but not "OAO".
I edited satellites.json to change the name to "CHINESE TIANGONG 1",
and that works. Failures seem to default to "ATLAS CENTAUR 2",
the first entry in satellites.json.

Problem does not occur with:

2012-09-09T06:51:43
Linux version 3.2.27+ (dc4@dc4-arm-01) (gcc version 4.7.2 20120731 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1+bzr2458 - Linaro GCC 2012.08) ) #102 PREEMPT Sat Sep 1 01:00:50 BST 2012
Compiled with GCC 4.6.3
Qt runtime version: 4.8.1
Qt compilation version: 4.8.1
Addressing mode: 32-bit
MemTotal: 189136 kB
MemFree: 121236 kB
SwapTotal: 102396 kB
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Thanks,
gil

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) said : 		#4

It's a bug. I've opened a bug report. I'll try to fix it.

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