Star Naming Disclaimer

Meridian Celestial Registry provides symbolic star naming registrations maintained in its independent private database. These names are commemorative and are not official astronomical designations recognized by the International Astronomical Union.

Meridian Celestial Registry does not sell, transfer or confer any ownership of a star, and nothing in our certificates or registry records grants property rights of any kind.

Meridian Celestial Registry is an independent private business. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of any government, space agency, observatory, university or the International Astronomical Union.

Star names, Bayer designations, coordinates, magnitudes, spectral types and distances are taken from published catalogue data (including the Yale Bright Star Catalogue and Hipparcos-derived catalogues) and are presented as recorded. Coordinates are J2000 equatorial positions.

Position charts plot a star's catalogued coordinates on the equatorial grid. They are not photographs, and they are not a simulation of what you would see through a telescope. We do not present any visualisation as an official sky survey image.