Homework Help: Science/Astronomy

Posted by nichola on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 8:06am.

How would I go about estimating a stars apparent visual magnitude using only my eye's?Advice or good internet site is appreciated.

Science/Astronomy - bobpursley, Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 9:48am
"estimating"?

learn several common stars, memorize their magnitude, then you can compare others to them:

I suggest these..

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/brightest.html

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