... magnitude scale: the brightest star was given a magnitude of 1, and the dimmest a ... magnitude scale runs backwards, so a smaller number means a brighter object: Sirius ...
... is part of the Little Dipper (as it's called in the U.S.), and is about 2 nd magnitude, which means it ain't all that bright ... and the nearest star to it is a a very faint 5 th magnitude star, which is near the limit of the human eye to see unaided ...
... It actually now says: ... it will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. ... It will attain a magnitude of -2.9 and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest 75-power magnification . ...
... At magnitude 6 or so, it is just at the limit of normal vision (although at extraordinarily dark sites, like at the Nebraska Star Party, many people claim-- and I have no reason to disbelieve them-- that they can see stars down to about magnitude 7.5 or ...
... Shining at about magnitude -4.5, it is the brightest thing in the sky (the Moon this week rises late, after Venus sets, and of course the Sun is not up at night!) ...
... The odds are low, though: I did a quick calculation and I might have a 1 in 100 chance of finding any brighter then about 26th magnitude . Oh well. ...
... a very tight double star) is about 23rd magnitude, or six million times fainter than ... can see here (take your pick!) is about magnitude 28.5, or one billion times fainter ...
... below average in the number of major earthquakes for a given magnitude that occurred ... a car driving by might look just like a magnitude 0.1 earthquake to a seismograph ...
... mistakenly gave the brown dwarf a visual magnitude of 17, when in fact it's more ... It glows feebly at about magnitude 25 in visible light. ... be a billion times brighter, glowing visibly at magnitude 2, making it a relatively ...
... Pluto has a magnitude of about 13.5, and the visual limit without a telescope, being very generous, is about 7. ... At this point I won't go into details about magnitudes (which involve logarithms), but this means that Pluto is about 10 0.4x ...