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A Backyard Astronomer's Diary 2 - The Brightness of Stars and Observing The Summer Triangle

A Backyard Astronomer's Diary 2 - The Brightness of Stars and Observing The Summer Triangle

Update: 2022-09-23
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Look up on a clear night from a dark place and see the stars. The brightest ones stand out the most and make up recognizable shapes in the sky like the Big Dipper and Orion the Hunter. Other stars fill in the spaces in between, some of them barely visible at all. Stars are big and small, near and far. In this episode we'll discuss the brightness of the stars in our sky and how we can describe how bright a star is when doing backyard astronomy.

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A Backyard Astronomer's Diary 2 - The Brightness of Stars and Observing The Summer Triangle

A Backyard Astronomer's Diary 2 - The Brightness of Stars and Observing The Summer Triangle

Jim Harstad