# Does every star visible with the naked eye have an accepted name?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 14, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-star-visible-with-the-naked-eye-have-an-accepted-name/734661 "2015-10-14T20:52:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-every-star-visible-with-the-naked-eye-have-an-accepted-name/734661/21 "2015-10-16T22:44:37Z")

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While on a cruise in the Med, on a clear moonless night, they turned all but the navigation lights off for us at around midnight. I can’t believe that there were only 3,000 stars. It was pretty humbling I found, to realise how insignificant our little planet orbiting a minor star is.

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