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Gurius
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I tried to translate star and costellation names from SC-2 Starmap into real starmap and was confronted with a problem.Most of names have direct equivalents in atlases such as "Cygnus - Swan" or "Lacaille - <real astronom's name>".
But I can't find translations for some names (I don't think that those names are simply fictitious):
Gorno 
Illuminati
Klystron
Lentilis
Lipi
Squidi
Vitalis
Help me, please! 
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Death 999
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Well, if you're trying to translate the stars from SC2 starmap to real starmap, that's a rather different endeavor than translating the names of the stars into English... Which are you trying to do?
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I think FF+PR3 made up some of the constellation names. The hyperspace map is theoretically constellated from the Chenjesu homeworld (i.e Procyon), so the stars all got moved around a bunch. Then FF+PR3 randomly tacked on 'real' constellation names and fake ones.
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now i think it would be cool if the next starmap was based off of the galexy.
like having alpha centaire the closest star to sol
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You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find a list of stars' locations relative to earth. I occasionally look for a list of stars' positions so I can create a viewer, but the best one I have found is an unfortunately totally outdated space exploration game for the mac 128k called Orion.
I'd pay just to have the map...
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Gorno - No idea about this. It's an Italian name, I think, but a google search showed no scientists/astronomers by this name...
Illuminatii - the second 'i' in the latin genitive form hints that this may refer to 'Enlightenment', or the 'illuminati', ye old good secret society. (?!)
Klystron - quoting WordWeb, "Klystron - an electron tube used to generate or amplify electromagnetic radiation in the microwave region by velocity modulation".
Lentilis - From 'lentil', a plant, or maybe simply the word 'lens'.
Lipi - No idea either, sounds like a Latin form, but there's no Latin word of this root (that either I or my dictionary know of, at least). The closest I can think of is 'Lupi' which would mean 'wolf' (the animal, as opposed to the 'Wolf' constellation which refers to the astronomer. 'U' and 'I' are close together on the keyboard, so perhaps it's a mistake that filtered through to the final version?
Squidi - The "evil squid" is an animal that Toys For Bob seem to like very much (judging by the old version of their website)...nice little hidden reference.
Vitalis - yeah, probably health or vitality, as Lukipela said.
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Most of the single stars that don't belong to a larger constellation are actual stars in our own sky. Examples include Aldebaran, Formelhaut (a star name that bizarrely re-appears in SC3 as the Utwig's home system), Betelgeuse, Procyon, Sirius, Antares, Hyperion, Canopus, Rigel, and a whole slew of others. The one I always wondered about was Groombridge, which is probably not a real star in our galaxy, although I'm not certain about this. Another one is Organon, which doesn't sound like a real star... *shrugs*
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Space Above and Beyond used Groombridge aswell..
So perhaps it is a real star..
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I found [link=http://www.astronexus.com/data/hyg.htm]this[/link]. I'm not sure how complete or reliable it is, though. It does list Groombridge, but not any of the stars in the list or Organon. My guess is that TFB made them up.
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