Questions about the German translation

[Atque]

I'm not a fluent German speaker and certainly not active in any German-speaking astronomy community, but wouldn't the proper German name for Centaurus be Zentaur? And wouldn't Arcturus be called Arktur and Vega Wega?

[alex-w]

Correct spelling for Vega and Arcturus.

[10110111]

Wega, Zentaur, Arktur are all correct German names, which are the titles of corresponding Wikipedia.DE pages. But for Arktur and Wega these pages say, respectively, "Arktur oder Arcturus" and "Wega, auch Vega". For the case of Centaurus the Latin name is explicitly specified as Latin: "Zentaur oder Kentaur (lateinisch Centaurus)".

[Atque]

For the case of Centaurus the Latin name is explicitly specified as Latin: "Zentaur oder Kentaur (lateinisch Centaurus)".

Hmm, further down in the article, it says

Die sternreiche Region des südlichen Centaurus enthält eine Reihe interessanter Beobachtungsobjekte.

Is there no consensus about what to call the constellation?

[10110111]

I guess @gzotti should know the best about the frequency of use of different names.

[gzotti]

Matter of personal preference, seriously. German-speaking education systems have a long tradition of teaching Latin and even Greek, this is why Latin spelling is widespread and seen "more scientifical/original" by many. And with the new "official" star names, movement will almost certainly go into adopting those with IAU spelling.