Birthday Star

jester · 08-15-2007, 10:42 AM

This is soooo coool

My birthday star is in the constellation Cancer. It has the name ρ (Rho) Cancri in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is also called 55 Cancri in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 0852+2819 A in the NStars database.

It has visual magnitude 5.96 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 8:52:35.8
Declination 28:19:50.9

This star is 41.0 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.

08-15-2007, 10:42 AM	#3
jester why so serious Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,712	This is soooo coool My birthday star is in the constellation Cancer. It has the name ρ (Rho) Cancri in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is also called 55 Cancri in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 0852+2819 A in the NStars database. It has visual magnitude 5.96 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 8:52:35.8 Declination 28:19:50.9 This star is 41.0 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.

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