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

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

Answer 1

"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