It's a sad thing to have to report this---given the circumstances---but I'm
afraid that whoever paid for the "naming" was a victim of a scam. The
so-called "International Star Registry" and other, similiar, operations, are
simply taking people's money from them. The names they assign to stars have
no official recognition whatsoever. No astronomer or astronomical
organization recognises these names. (The fact that they publish the names
in a book that is "registered in the US Copyright Office" is utterly
meaningless.) You could go outside, point at a star and call it "Henry" with
just as much legitimacy as these con artists. In fact, you should do that
very thing.

Check out some of these comments about the scam (and there are certainly
many others):
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49345,00.html
http://www.dailyping.com/archive/2002/09/07/
http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/starnames/globe.html
http://astrwww.astr.cwru.edu/Persona...nameastar.html

RM

"Angel thoughts" wrote in message
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Hi,
My late brother and his wife had a star named after them. How do I go
about
finding this star? And can it actually be seen from the naked eye?
Karen