How Do I Name a Star in Someone's Memory?

Updated on January 14, 2014
S.B. asks from Los Angeles, CA
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Hi moms,
A friend of ours recently passed away and I want to name a star after him. If you have done this before, which registry did you use?
I did a search online and there are several of them. There is Star Registry, International Star Registry, etc. The first two sound familiar as in I've heard one of their ads before, but I just don't know which one! How do I know which one is legit?
Thanks,
S.

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S.E.

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It looks to me as if these two places, Star Registry and International Star Registry, are the same. I found an article online:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/12/49345
which quotes a magazine editor from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in SF. I used to work there and have a lot of faith in their opinion. Here is an excerpt:
Founded in 1979, ISR has sold over 1 million of their full-color "Name A Star" parchment certificates. Figuring there are between 400 billion and 1 trillion stars in this galaxy alone, selling names for them at nearly $50 each sounds like a license to print money.
But International Star Registry certainly doesn't have a license to name stars. Robert Naeye, editor of Mercury Magazine, a publication of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, puts it in no uncertain terms: "The star names sold by the International Star Registry are not recognized by any professional astronomical organization."
Good-luck.

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P.M.

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Contact the International Star Registry:

starregistry.com/‎

My husband received a "star" as a gift many years ago from this registry.

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M.F.

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I've used International Star Registry decades ago. At the time, I got a nice certificate framed and a bunch of information about the star.

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C.J.

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Keep an eye on groupon. I just got one from them about a month ago from The International Star Registry. It was only $8. I printed, laminated and framed the certificate myself and it came out very nicely.

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