Sentence examples for second magnitude from inspiring English sources

It is visible all night and it is quite brilliant to view, as it is negative second magnitude.

A star of the first magnitude is about 2.5 times as bright as one of the second magnitude, which in turn is some 2.5 times as bright as one of the third magnitude, and so on.

Exposure to real estate developers is the ratio of the second magnitude relative to the first one.

This means that a first magnitude star (+1.00) is about 2.5 times brighter than a second magnitude (+2.00) star, and approximately 100 times brighter than a sixth magnitude star (+6.00).

Aries is a relatively dim constellation, possessing only four bright stars: Hamal (Alpha Arietis, second magnitude), Sheratan (Beta Arietis, third magnitude), Mesarthim (Gamma Arietis, fourth magnitude), and 41 Arietis (also fourth magnitude).

Alpha Trianguli Australis, known as Atria, is a second magnitude orange giant and the brightest star in the constellation, as well as the 42nd-brightest star in the night sky.

That, Taylor ruled, was a "blunder of the first magnitude".

Magnitudes are now defined such that a first-magnitude star is 100 times brighter than a star of sixth magnitude.

Since then it has varied irregularly about the seventh magnitude.

A star of the first magnitude is therefore 2.55 or 100 times as bright as one of the sixth magnitude.

"Failure to give that order," Taylor wrote, "was a blunder of the first magnitude".