The Red Planet now hangs below Castor and Pollux, the two 1st-magnitude stars marking the heads of Gemini the Twins, high above Canis Major and Orion and to the left of Taurus the Bull (which ...

THERE YOU SHOULD SEE BRIGHT RED MARS. THEN SHINING TO THE RIGHT OF MARS ARE TWO BRIGHT FIRST MAGNITUDE STARS THE TWIN STARS OF GEMINI POLLUX AND CASTOR! IF IT’S DARK ENOUGH LOOK BELOW C AND P TO ...

Guided by what the screen showed, I searched the eastern sky. Ah, there it is. The first-magnitude star shining faintly on the dull celestial sphere must be Vega (Orihime in the Tanabata legend ...

The famous Greek astronomer Hipparchus introduced the magnitude scale more than 2,000 years ago. He assigned the brightest stars 1st-magnitude status and the faintest 6th-magnitude status.

To find the first, NGC 1807, move not quite 2° northeast of 11 Orionis, the topmost star in the Hunter's shield. It glows at 7th magnitude and measures 5.4′ across. The second of the pair, NGC ...