Stellarium - weird names after upgrade ??

[Skipper Billy]

I am intending to use Stellarium as a live demo as part of a talk about astro-imaging in the near future.

I wanted to have the latest stable version and upgraded from v15 to the latest (v18.x)

Now I have weird names for many targets

Eg - if I search for NGC 7380 I get the Wizard Nebula  (Hurrah!)-  followed by Harry Potter and the Golden Snitch !!!!! (Seriously ??)

As the group I will be talking to are a reasonably scientific bunch I would rather stick to the usual catalogue name and usual common name.

Is there any way to correct this without rolling back to an old version ???

Thanks in advance.

[Dr_Ju_ju]

Not sure, was it re-named at some point?, but I can find no references apart from this Cambridge Uni reference https://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/37040/index/9780521837040_index.htm (search for NGC 7380 within the page)….

[Skipper Billy]

18 minutes ago, Dr_Ju_ju said:

Not sure, was it re-named at some point?

It's not just that one - there are loads of things that now have weird names - eg Superman Galaxy, NGC4669 - the Vinyl LP Galaxy ??

[Dr_Ju_ju]

FYI, it's the same in version 18.0... there is a way to disable seeing them & that is to use F3 configuration window i.e. 

 

[Skipper Billy]

Thanks Dr_Ju_Ju - but that turns off all the names ie it no longer shows the common name either.

Looks like I will have to roll back ?

[alexwolf]

Hint: F4 -> DSO -> uncheck "Use additional names for DSO"

[Stargazer McCabe]

2 minutes ago, alexwolf said:

Hint: F4 -> DSO -> uncheck "Use additional names for DSO"

Thanks @alexwolf I guess it's a classic case of "if all else fails, read the manual !!" ?

[Skipper Billy]

1 hour ago, alexwolf said:

Hint: F4 -> DSO -> uncheck "Use additional names for DSO"

You are a star !!!!  THANK YOU !!!!!

[Stub Mandrel]

Will this get rid of the odd names that appeared in V16? Or just ones added since then?

 

[Charic]

There's often a fix, but for various reasons, I'm still using  0.15.0 on my MacBook.
Perhaps I don't delve that deep, but for me 15 works fine.

[Jonk]

Doesn't appear to work on v0.18.2, I still see the childish names!

[almcl]

Had the same irritating problem until I discovered the 'Use designations for screen labels' button.  (See below)