Tag: Stargazing

When is the best time of year to stargaze?

There’s something truly magical about being away from the city noise and lights, and escaping to one of the UK’s incredible Dark Sky Parks for a spot of stargazing. Firstly, what’s a dark sky park? If you want to see the stars in all their magnificent glory, then a Dark Sky Park is the best pl...

Best places to go stargazing in Scotland

_ “The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.”_ ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance Nowadays, unless you are fortunate enough to live far away from any busy roads, towns and cities, it can be difficult to realise just how many stars...

Top 15 Fictional Planets in Science Fiction!

For us at Star Name registry, we focus on providing an excellent Star Registration service. The art of Star Registration might one expand into Planet Registration if we develop the technology to properly identify the planets that lie within the stars' gravity. And how with the Webb Telescope, this m...

The Stars of Les Misérables

Name A Star Blog – Les Misérables,Stars There are so many to choose from, when looking to name a star it can be easy to feel somewhat overwhelmed. While many choose to form a bond with a individual star at a time, seeing all the stars together as a collective symbol is something that has been...

L.A.T.C.H

  Happy new year everyone! Whether you came to us to name a star over Christmas, or are looking to dedicate a star for someone for 2018 lets  take a moment to remember that for some 2018 brings very difficult challenges. None more so than the young patients who will be checked into the Noah’s...

Recipe: How to make Star Cookies!

  As we approach Christmas, there’ll be no shortage of food to go around! Great if you’re visiting, hell if you’re hosting! As it’s Christmas and a lot of people are thinking about perhaps choosing to buy a star gift, why not make a star gift? Specifically, in cookie form! It’s perfect little...

The Stars and the Inuit tribes of Canada

During winter, we can often complain about the cold, Especially on chilly nights, when the clouds don’t trap the heat in and the stars are visible. In such conditions it may not be the best idea to think whether you will dedicate a star or not. While for us living in the modern developed world , win...

Muse’s Starlight – The Dissonance between Hope and Despair

Some things can cause a strange feeling of dissonance. When you look toward the stars in the sky, possibly thinking to dedicate a star to someone, or get a star named after you, you’ll perhaps be overwhelmed  at the idea of a burning ball of gas burning for billions of years; yet perhaps slightly...

Scorpius – The Polynesian Connection

Scorpion or Fish hook? To register a star must have been tricky for the ancient peoples as they only had the naked eye to use. Part of the reason we have constellations at all is that making shapes out of stars that were clustered together made them easier to locate. But not all cultures saw the...

Antares – the Heart of the Scorpion

What makes the constellations special is not just the images they inspire, but the body of stars that makes them up. It’s a very special thing to own a star, and for the constellation of Scorpius, it has a very interesting one at its very heart. The brightest star of the Scorpius constellation is...

Fomalhaut; the loneliest star?

For the stargazing among us Autumn can be a particularly grim time of year. That chill of the night only gets worse the closer we edge toward Christmas and the casual stargazer could be forgiven for not wanting to be outside too much for extended periods of time. Winter is coming If you’re loo...

Ridiculous Things People Have Believed to be UFOs.

Lightning It is probably unsurprising that weird weather phenomena are linked with UFO sightings. This happens particularly often with a phenomenon known as sprite flashes, which are triggered high up in the Earth’s atmosphere by thunderstorms. These sprites often take the form of fast-mov...