Star bright: want to tell a magnitude 1 star from a 3 or 4? For help, look to the north.(Night Watchman)(Column)

From: Discover | Date: June 1, 1997| Author: Berman, Bob | Copyright information

The Little Dipper constellation is the standard reference for estimating brightness of stars in magnitudes, since its bowl is made up of second, third, fourth and fifth-magnitude stars. Binoculars can vastly increase the number of visible stars, by allowing one to see stars of dimmer magnitudes.

Nothing in astronomy is more basic than the classification of star brightness. The ancient Greeks gave us our modern method, which unfortunately is an illogical, reverse-order system. For ...

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