Your Birthday Star
Work out what your birthday star is - this is what it said about mine...
"Your birthday star is in the constellation Pegasus. It has the name ι (Iota) Pegasi in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is also called 24 Pegasi in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 2207+2520 A in the NStars database.
It has visual magnitude 3.77 meaning that you could see this star with the naked eye in good viewing conditions. It is marked in the center of this star chart, at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox):
Right ascension 22:7:0.7
Declination 25:20:42.4
This star is 38.3 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."
"Your birthday star is in the constellation Pegasus. It has the name ι (Iota) Pegasi in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is also called 24 Pegasi in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 2207+2520 A in the NStars database.
It has visual magnitude 3.77 meaning that you could see this star with the naked eye in good viewing conditions. It is marked in the center of this star chart, at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox):
Right ascension 22:7:0.7
Declination 25:20:42.4
This star is 38.3 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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