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My birthday star is in the constellation Ursa Major. It is called 61 Ursae Majoris in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 1141+3412 in the NStars database.
It has visual magnitude 5.31 meaning that you could just see this star with the naked eye under the best viewing conditions. It is marked in the center of this star chart, at celestial coordinates (J2000 equinox):
Right ascension 11:41:3
Declination 34:12:5.9
This star is 30.9 light years away...
Very cool, except I turned 31 3 weeks ago, so shouldn't it be a star that is 31 or 31.1 light years away???
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