STARS AND THEIR LIGHT
55 000 TIMES AS BRIGHT AS SUN 1
Which is the brightest star in the sky, and which is the faintest? The stars have been conveniently collated into i degrees of magnitude, the first magnitude stars being the brightest and the sixth the limit to the naked eye. It has been shown by the use of the spectroscope; that Sirius is forty-eight times as bright as the sun while Canopus, a star in the Southern Hemisphere, is no less than 55 000 times as bright. On the other hand, a certain star of the tenth magnitude, thus invisible to the naked eye, and known as Barnards is nearer to us than Sirius, but is so faint that the sun actually shines 3,000 times as bril-f liantly.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 43, 12 February 1946, Page 3
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130STARS AND THEIR LIGHT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 43, 12 February 1946, Page 3
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