Huh, we have the same star.Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Your birthday star is in the constellation Bootes. It has the name ? (Chi) Bootis in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is also called 37 Bootis in the Historia C?lestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 1451+1906 A in the NStars database.
It has visual magnitude 4.7 meaning that you could just see this star with the naked eye under the best viewing conditions. It is marked in the center of this star chart, at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox):
Right ascension 14:51:23.4
Declination 19:6:1.7
This star is 22.1 light years away, which means that the light we see from it today set off on its journey at about the same time that you were born. Come back in a month or two and your birthday star may change, as the light from more distant stars reaches Earth.
Originally posted by: FFMCobalt
Your birthday star is in the constellation Bootes. It has the name ? (Chi) Bootis in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is also called 37 Bootis in the Historia C?lestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 1451+1906 A in the NStars database.
It has visual magnitude 4.7 meaning that you could just see this star with the naked eye under the best viewing conditions. It is marked in the center of this star chart, at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox):
Right ascension 14:51:23.4
Declination 19:6:1.7
This star is 22.1 light years away, which means that the light we see from it today set off on its journey at about the same time that you were born. Come back in a month or two and your birthday star may change, as the light from more distant stars reaches Earth.