NGC 300 Label

[Hansfair]

Expected Behaviour

NGC 300 labelled as Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy.

Actual Behaviour

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NGC 300 appears as "Southern Pinwheel Galaxy". It is also known as "Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy".
NGC 5236 (M83) also appears as "Southern Pinwheel Galaxy" which can be confusing.
Could NGC 300 be renamed as "Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy" in the database?

Steps to reproduce

Click on both NGC 300 and NGC 5236 in turn to see identical labels.

System

• Stellarium version: stellarium-24.4-qt6-win64.exe
• Operating system: Windows 11
• Graphics Card: NVidia geForce GT730
• Screen type (if applicable): Resolution, HighDPI, scaling

Logfile

If possible, attach the logfile log.txt from your user data directory. Look into the Guide for its location.

[alex-w]

Source of name?

[sunshuwei]

NGC 300 is indeed called the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy in most materials. Wikipedia lists the reference (Stoyan, Ronald; Schurig, Stephan (2014). interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas. Erlangen: Cambridge University Press; Oculum-Verlag GmbH. ISBN 978-1-107-50338-0. OCLC 92043757), and this name is now widely used.

In addition, it is almost meaningless to call NGC2686 the Spindle Galaxy. It is too dim and has nothing special. This name is rarely used.
The Spindle Galaxy is the name of NGC 5866 and NGC 3115.