Hlp me find "my "star..please.

Zincberg (Andrew) · #1 25-12-2011, 08:04 PM

Ok, so.. the single most beautiful gift I have received (possibly ever) for christmas was that my Girlfriend decided to get a star named after me.
( bummer for the printers of southern star charts .. going to need to issue a re-print

)

Now, before we go on, I understand fully that noone has legitamitely changed the name of anything...and that in no scientific journal will my name be appearing anytime soon, all of that is completely beside the point, the point...to me is the thoughtfulness of her decision to involve herself in my interests and give me something that just shows me how much she cares... and for that I am truly grateful...

now... the dilemma..

So I have a very elaborate certificate.. which tells me that the star has been changed to my name, giving co-ordinates for where to find the new solar system that I lord over...They also supply a beautiful enlargement of a star chart with my star circled beautifully in red.
I thought I would..on the next clear night, take a photo of "my" star and put it with the certificate..
So I hurriedly looked on my "star walk" app to look at my star...and couldnt find it.
Thinking perhaps that it was slightly more faint, I moved over to starry night pro... still no star.

So I wonder, could anyone take a look at these coordinates..and tell me if you find a star at this location.(software or otherwise)

RA 21h27m50.00s D-55°46'48.36 (accurate at 2000 apparantly)
Its visual magnitude should be around 11.4 (mv)

Now I dont mind that essentially my girlfriend could have just pointed at ANY star and said she renamed it for me, as I stated before, the thought is beautiful..and getting the certificate etc is a "gas"...(no matter my opinions on whether she was ripped off or not)... but what I DO care about, is if there is no star.

Can anyone assist please?

DavidU (Dave) · #2 25-12-2011, 08:38 PM

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/si...e=FK5&Radius=2

PeterM · #3 25-12-2011, 08:59 PM

SkyX notes a star UCAC3 69:457678 in Indus close enough to your RA & Dec
I have just taken a rough 5 second image below just as the star is dipping toward trees.
Also see
http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss...e&fov=NONE&v3=
Nice girlfriend, Merry Christmas Andrew.

mithrandir (Andrew) · #4 25-12-2011, 10:07 PM

An alternative to Peter's UCAC3 entry - probably the same object by a different name:

TYC 8810-1005-1
Tycho2 catalog
Visual magnitude: 11.14
Colour index: 0.84
Blue magnitude: 12.13
Proper motion in right ascension: 0.010
Proper motion in declination: -0.014

Coordinates: Mean J2000 Epoch: 2000.0
Mean J2000 RA: 21h27m49.950s DE:-55°46'48.79"
Ecliptic L: +304°23'55" B:-38°22'29"
Galactic L: +340°10'10" B:-43°50'37"

Kevnool (Kev) · #5 26-12-2011, 03:54 PM

If you actually want to know where it is then here it is.

Cheers

StarHawk · #6 26-12-2011, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mithrandir

TYC 8810-1005-1
Tycho2 catalog
Visual magnitude: 11.14
Colour index: 0.84
Blue magnitude: 12.13
Proper motion in right ascension: 0.010
Proper motion in declination: -0.014

Coordinates: Mean J2000 Epoch: 2000.0
Mean J2000 RA: 21h27m49.950s DE:-55°46'48.79"
Ecliptic L: +304°23'55" B:-38°22'29"
Galactic L: +340°10'10" B:-43°50'37"

That's exactly what my astro-program came up with.

bartman (Bart) · #7 26-12-2011, 07:18 PM

Awesome gift Andrew!
Could you let us know what website she went too to get that?
Cheers
Bartman

mithrandir (Andrew) · #8 26-12-2011, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bartman

Could you let us know what website she went too to get that?

Bart, I don't know where Andrew(StarHawk)'s GF got his, but my kids got me one from Sydney Observatory. They use stars from the SSSC (Sydney Southern Star Catalog).

FYI, if you go to http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR and put "21 27 50.00 -55 46 48.36" in the target, J2000 for the epoch and 1 arcmin radius you'll get multiple catalog entries for StarHawk's star and others with an arcmin of it.