How Can I Locate A Star

[Titchmac1]

Can anyone help please...
I bought a name-a-star gift for my partner at Christmas and wondered if there was any way to be able to locate it with the co-ordinates sent with the certificate... He is driving me crazy about finding it so for my sanity alone I should be grateful if anyone knows ANY way of doing this, any way at all...
I am pretty sure that it will probably be far too small to see anyway, but he wants to know roughly where it is in the sky so he can take a screen shot (or similar) of it... If it can't be done - is there anyway I can use the co-ordinates given and find him a star I can take a screen shot of and tell him that is HIS star? Wrong, I know, but for the sake of my sanity and to restore peace and harmony - I will do whatever it takes ;)
Thanks in advance for any answers/suggestions etc...

[DangerUXD]

Oh dear! I bought a farm on the moon last week! What are the coordinates?

[jim360]

You could try typing those coordinates into a search engine. See if anything comes up. Failing that, buy a mega expensive telescope which comes with a computer that can allow the telescope to track a particular coordinate in the sky. I think you'd be looking at around £200 for that.

[jake-the-peg]

Does it tell you its magnitude (brightness or dimness really)

The higher the magnitude the dimmer it is

above 3 or 4 it's going to be difficult to see with the naked eye, you'll need binoculars - above 8 is telescope really

12 or 13 is going to be quite a big telescope needed

[heathfield]

We don't know what you have in the way of co-ordinates, but you could try this...

http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

[jake-the-peg]

I don't know if you're still reading this but if it's faint here's an idea

http://www.telescope.org/

This is the Braford Robot telescope on Tenerieffe - used to be free but looks like they want a few quid now - probably to manage the use.

Anyway you can give the co-ordinates and settings to the system and your request is queued up then when the opportunitity arises it will find your object and photograph it and put the image on line

[Titchmac1]

Sorry for the delay in replying to all the answers - have been without a computer for 3 weeks and have only just been able to get online again today...
Thank you to all for your replies... I bought the name-a-star gift for my partner as a 'fun' present - I didn't think he would want to see it let alone take a picture/screenshot of it!!!
The only "co-ordinates" sent with the certificate are as follows:

Right Ascension : 3 hrs 17 mins 36.2 sec
Declination : +7 deg 5' mins 16.3" secs

I don't even know if they are REAL co-ordinates or not as I know absolutely nothing about Astronomy...
I don't even know what I am looking for but I will try clicking on the links a couple of you gave me...
Once again thank you all for taking the time to reply... :)

[Prudie]

I was also given a star named after me as a present Do you think scientists and astronomers are actually kept up to date with these re-named stars or is it a bit of a con?

[Calvados]

I think it's a con. If my limited knowledge of the co-ordinates is correct, the location given is fractionally above the horizon, slightly to the right of the pole star. I think you can also have a crater on the moon named after you but it's probably only a few metres accross. Easy money!

[Titchmac1]

I don't have a clue what the "co-ordinates" even mean - let alone if they are 'genuine'... As I said in my original question I bought it as a 'fun' gift for my partner (so he could name a star after his brother who died) - but it has turned out to be anything but fun as he now wants a picture or screenshot of the actual star... I just need to show him a pic/screenshot of HIS star with the co-ordinates the gift company sent him... But, after reading the replies and other articles - I don't even know if the star actually exists now :(

[mibn2cweus]

This star is probably too dim to see through the average telescope. The best you might be able to do is point in the general direction of where it would be found through a more powerful telescope.

Your star would be in the north/west corner of the constellation Cetus, close to the border with the constellation Taurus, roughly in the direction Orion is shooting his arrow. This area of the sky is approaching evening twilight near the horizon and seeing stars in this area of the sky might not be good again until late summer, in the morning.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Does the certificate say anything else?
I may be able to help :)

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Ahhh. I see Mib has given a very comprehensive answer :)

[Zeuhl]

An app for your iphone/smart phone might help you apply mib's directions

'Night Sky' is very good

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I found it. Here you go.
http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y406/diwdrop/star_zpsb2102a5d.jpg

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

By the way I found that using a free program called Stellarium which can be found here:

http://www.stellarium.org/

Turn off the atmosphere, and pause it. It will be moving over time.
Open the search window, choose position and enter your co-ordinates there and hit enter.
You will now be pointing at it.
Close that window and open the sky and viewing options window.
Set the absolute scale to 9.0 and the relative scale to 0.25. Close that window and scroll to zoom in as far as you can.
Click on the star to get the info.
TA-DA!

[EDDIE51]

I bought a name a star certificate and it came with a CD with a computer program that showed you where your star was. But the starts in the 'name a star ' gifts are too faint to see without a decent telescope , and even then it will just be a pin point of light.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Most of them would struggle to be seen by Hubble :))

[Titchmac1]

I'm really grateful to everyone who replied, thank you all very much for your input... BUT, got to send Very Special Thank You's to:
Mibn2cweus & Mojo-jo-jo
I wish I could mark both of you as Best Answers - you guys are awesome :)