What sky culture should I use to get traditional constellation names? #4432
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I've installed the latest version of Stellarium (25.2), and the default naming of constellations has things like "Hunter", "Great Bear", "Twins" instead of "Orion", "Ursa Major", "Gemini" and so on. I realise these are the translations of those traditional constellation names, but I think more people have heard of Orion as a constellation than "Hunter". The Sky Culture setting defaults to "Modern", so I tried setting it to "Modern (IAU)" instead - but that, too, has the same names, and I'm pretty sure the IAU hasn't changed the name of Orion. I seem to be able to get the official names if I choose, "Modern (O. Hlad)", which claims to be "Constellations according to classical Czech publication: Hvězdná obloha 2000.0", but this just seems weird that I can only see traditional constellation names by using a Czech sky culture! Is there some other setting I've missed? Thanks! |
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The translation of the constellation names into German is terrible. Who came up with these names? |
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Then just apply "native" names and nothing else. For english speakers this is the most obvious solution.