Hi Julian,

"... It is still strange though that when I looked up V1279,
HK Lup and the GSC star popped up."

Nothing strange about it; it's exactly what I would have
expected to have happen.

The "new feature" only ensures that you can "go to" the new
variables; they aren't actually _displayed_. (Except possibly
as a user-added dataset.) The display is exactly what it's
always been, no changes whatsoever. In the actual universe,
there is one star there, known to us humans by the various
names HK Lup, V1279 Sco, and GSC 7851 143.

If I'd had the time to do it, Guide 8.0 would have been
released with it "knowing" that GSC 7851 143 = HK Lup. You'd
see one star, and could click on it and be told its identifier
in both catalogs. I didn't do that for various reasons, one of
which was that the variable star catalogues were not at all
exact; making such identifications would have been quite iffy.

As a result, one frequently sees variables as "double stars":
one from GCVS, one from GSC. (And sometimes duplicates from
A2.0 or B1.0 or UCAC-2, or all of these.) I've had various ideas
for fixing all of this, but none that I deemed very workable.

-- Bill