Help please

[pitseaboris]

Hi everyone. I'm new to all this star gazing lark but am realy getting in to it. My fiance bought me a name your own star for valentines. How can I actually find it, my RA & DEC (longitude and latitude) is as follows

RA  14h 16m 23.8s

DEC   +4° 57' 40.4"

 

Any help will be appreciated thankyou 

[wuthton]

Download the free planatarium called Stellarium, use the search>position and you'll find that it is rising due East from about 11pm tonight, just under and right a bit of Arcturus.

[Knighty2112]

Here's an image with your star highlighted. Unless you have a very good telescope it is doubtful you will see it very easily alas at it is very faint.

 

[Knighty2112]

Here's a better picture from Skysafari to show where the star lies in the sky, halfway between the bright stars Spica and Arcturus. The star itself lies in the centre of the crosshairs in the picture in the constellation of Virgo.

 

 

[Dave In Vermont]

As regards Stellarium - I also highly recommend this planetarium-program. It will help you find just about anything up there. This is my Cut & Paste to get you there, along with instructions:

http://www.stellarium.org/
 
As for instructions, the most current one's are posted in Wiki due to there being new features & functions being created almost daily. There is also a Pdf. that's almost up-to-date, absolutely enough 'up-to-date' in all needed ways. Here's the Wiki-Link:
 
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Stellarium_User_Guide
 
And the Pdf. is here:
 
http://barry.sarcasmogerdes.com/stellarium/stellarium_user_guide-new.pdf

Similar software-programs can cost you upwards of £200. This is totally free.

Enjoy!

Dave

 

 

[wuthton]

I added your star to the end of my sequence last night. It's easy to pick out using Knighty's posts, of the two stars dead centre it's the upper one.

[Pondus]

On ‎15‎.‎02‎.‎2016 at 22:19, pitseaboris said:

Hi everyone. I'm new to all this star gazing lark but am realy getting in to it. My fiance bought me a name your own star for valentines. How can I actually find it, my RA & DEC (longitude and latitude) is as follows

RA  14h 16m 23.8s

DEC   +4° 57' 40.4"

 

Any help will be appreciated thankyou 

Your fiance bought you a "name Your own star" ?

Are you Sirius???!

[saggiemaggie7]

16 minutes ago, Pondus said:

Your fiance bought you a "name Your own star" ?

Are you Sirius???!

lmao i'm gonna remember that one