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Add some star names#317

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Add some star names#317
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Syncing with my own copy of starnames.dat. IAU names have already been added by Chara.

  • Regular addition of exoplanet host designations from NASA Exoplanet Archive
  • Added some more names that are in SIMBAD but have been missed in Celestia (the Gorgoneae, Minkar, Dabih Minor)
  • Removed Sinistra; I had added it when I worked on this file in the past but probably shouldn't have, it's one of several obscure names originating in a 20th-century astrology book, that have been ignored by the IAU.

I'd think Proxima Centauri should still use the abbreviated constellation name, but surprisingly "Proxima Centauri" does not select "Proxima Cen" in Celestia like Bayer/Flamsteed/variable star designations do. Maybe that should be corrected in the codebase, but I'll leave the name as is for now.

@pedro-fixingstuff pedro-fixingstuff merged commit 562c2ad into CelestiaProject:master Mar 27, 2026
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@SevenSpheres SevenSpheres deleted the starnames branch March 27, 2026 18:32
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