Author Topic: Find your birth star  (Read 2151 times)

this was on vsauce once




Your birthday star is in the constellation Eridstar fish. It is called 40 Eridani in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 0415-0739 A in the NStars database.

It has visual magnitude 4.43 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       4:15:16.3
Declination      -7:39:10.3

This star is 16.4 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.


edit: according to wikiped it is a triple star system

triple = 3 (oh baby)

pwnon = illuminati, waterore = comrade
« Last Edit: January 03, 2015, 10:36:46 PM by Pwnon »


Mines the star Altair.
Oh yea time to play some Assassins Creed
mine too and we both have cheese in our name

i think we're brothers.

December 10th, 1997?
My brother.
not december 10th, may 27th. same year though.
« Last Edit: January 03, 2015, 11:46:05 PM by ABlockOfCheese »