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karlyembeth star?
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 |
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karlyembeth star?
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 ... 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 |
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karlyembeth star?
With the "certificate" they received, they should have had something that
gave them a Right Ascension / Declination or Altitude / Azimuth coordinate, or something like that. Perhaps it had Galactic Coordinates, but there would have been something. Given any of the above, the star is able to be located (given that it is oriented for your hemisphere, or latitude)... -- Rob Lat +37.5583333 Long -121.9688888 TZ -8 [PST] "Angel thoughts" wrote in message ... 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 |
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karlyembeth star?
radowning wrote:
With the "certificate" they received, they should have had something that gave them a Right Ascension / Declination or Altitude / Azimuth coordinate, or something like that. Perhaps it had Galactic Coordinates, but there would have been something. Given any of the above, the star is able to be located (given that it is oriented for your hemisphere, or latitude)... I haven't seen the certificates these star-naming scammers produce, but if they were even slightly conscientious they might also have included a standard designation like a catalog number. If any of these data were provided the star can be looked up with SIMBAD, at http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fid.pl. --Odysseus |
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