Wednesday, November 30, 2022

👢👢 Star Magnitude (Brightness) Explained

We're going to review a really quick history of star magnitude and how it came to be. From what we know, at this time, Hipparchus was the Greek astronomer who lived in the 2nd century. He was the first to start this star brightness classification. He classified 850 stars ranging from 1 to 6 in terms of brightness.

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