About 4° from γ, in the direction of κ is a pretty pair of sixth-magnitude stars.
The following table of first-magnitude stars in the Zodiacal constellations confines the question of identifying the planets to a comparison of the unknown star with the following-named stars: Castor and Pollux in Gemini.
Of the first-magnitude stars it is nearest to the Pole, and it rises almost exactly in the northeast.
Aquarius, like Capricornus, is a rather uninteresting constellation, as it is made up of inconspicuous third- and fourth-magnitude stars.
This is one of the zodiacal groups which contain no first-magnitude stars, but a number of the second and third magnitude.
In the following diagrams of the constellations the brightest and most conspicuous stars, called first-magnitude stars, are represented by white stars.
Directly south of Orion lies the small constellation of Lepus, The Hare, which is made up of third-magnitude and fourth-magnitude stars.
We cannot say that no one of these is as bright in itself as some of our first-magnitude stars.
But first-magnitude stars, like Sirius, Procyon, Arcturus, etc.
The reason for this inference is that the general illumination of the atmosphere by starlight concentrated upon a film by the instrument will mask the light of objects that are fainter than about 18th-magnitude stars.
In February and March it was equal to 1st magnitude stars, and in April and May was reduced to the 2nd magnitude.
Close by, toward the east, two fourth-magnitude stars form a little triangle with Vega.
Burnham, is attended by three eleventh-magnitude stars, two of which are at distances of 206", p.
At the end of the handle of the Sickle is Regulus, one of the bright first-magnitude stars.
My first acquaintance with Saturn was when he was traveling through Pisces and Aries, where there are no first-magnitude stars to mark the path of the wandering bodies in the heavens.
Happily, among them we shall find some of the most beautiful constellations in the heavens, and some of the most splendidly brilliant first-magnitude stars.
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