How do i name a Star for my daughter

Well, ..., please do not waste your money on star naming registries. They are a total fake. The I.A.U. is the only governing body that can officially name a star, asteroid, or any other heavenly body. Star registry services create lists and you effectively buy a place on that list. Many times the star you buy is way too faint to see even a decent telescope and then at other's they give either incorrect or non-existent locations. It is really a scam and I hope you will not "buy" a star. Also buying land on any heavenly body such as the moon or mars is an out right scam as well.

Maybe you should consider buying here a decent pair of 10x50 Bushnell Powerview binoculars from Wal*Mart at $34.95. Or Terrance Dickenson's book "Nightwatch".

There are many services out there that will take your money and claim that they are allowing you to name a star. They will even claim to be the only "official" registry.

Thing is, they're all roughly equivalent to if you had just printed the certificate yourself... except more expensive. Yes, they all maintain "registries", but they're basically moot. The only way another person will know that you "bought" the star is if they have some perverse reason for wanting to know what that company has named any given star. Astronomers (professional and otherwise) will ignore them all and go by the catalogue names as per the International Astronomical Union.

You don't. Stars are not named after people. The only organization with the legal right to name stars is the International Astronomical Union, and they don't name them after people - ever. All the 'name a star' companies are for 'entertainment value only' - the only place that star will have that name is in a book they'll be happy to send you. They're all 'selling' the same stars, and they 'sold' all the bright ones (ones that you can see without a big telescope) years ago. Basically, you'd be paying for a piece of paper saying a star you can't see (and often one that doesn't even exist, since they regularly just make up coordinates with no stars nearby) has a name you gave it. It won't. It's a scam.

You take her outside, point at the star you wish to name after her and say "See that star? The name of that star is ____________. I named it after you. That star there is 'Dork Wad.' I named it after my brother."

Now send me fifty dollars… each.


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pay attention to the top contributors here they speak sense and the truth, so my suggestion is pick one urself that's easy to see and tell your daughter thats her star,she'll be none the wiser and by the time she is,she'll have forgotten all about it.

Companies that will name a star for you are not official. All they do is give you their certificate and put you in their database. It is about as official and those little plastic "World's Greatest Dad" trophies.

http://www.starregistry.com/index.cfm