Your birthday star has the common name Vega. It is in the constellation Lyra. It has the name α (Alpha) Lyrae in Johann Bayer's Uranometria star catalog. It is also called 3 Lyrae in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 1836+3847 in the NStars database.
It has visual magnitude 0.03 meaning that it is one of the brightest stars in the sky! It is marked in the center of this star chart, at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox):
Right ascension 18:36:56.3
Declination 38:47:1.3
This star is 25.3 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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Your Birthday Star, интересно, но на английском
Oriella Your Birthday Star 7.2.2008, 13:56
7.2.2008, 13:56
