Sentences with phrase «first magnitude stars»

The star is the lower right member (18:36:56.34 +38:47:01.29, ICRS 2000.0) of the «Summer Triangle» of first magnitude stars viewed from the northern hemisphere, formed with Altair (Alpha Aquilae) at the lower left, and Deneb (Alpha Cygni) at upper right.

It is also the lower left member of the «Summer Triangle» of first magnitude stars viewed from the northern hemisphere, formed with Vega (Alpha Lyrae) at the lower right, and Deneb (Alpha Cygni) at upper right.

Not exact matches

Or perhaps the kind of immortality Goethe allowed to his friend Wieland, when he said in his conversation with Falk: «I would not be at all surprised if I met Wieland again some thousands of years hence as a star of the first magnitude..., and saw with my own eyes how he infused everything around him with a pleasant light.»

Autumn constellations are the year's only patterns that can not boast a single first - magnitude star, making this a good time to stalk galaxies — like the great Andromeda now overhead.

Blazing with the light of 60,000 suns, it is the farthest first - magnitude star in the heavens, a lighthouse of the galaxy.

English explorer Robert Hues brought Alpha Centauri to the attention of European observers in his 1592 work Tractatus de Globis, along with Canopus and Achernar, noting «Now, therefore, there are but three Stars of the first magnitude that I could perceive in all those parts which are never seene here in England.

Such a close approach of two first - magnitude stars will not occur again for a very long time.

We consider first stars within the «solar subset» having Teff = 4100 - 6100 K, logg = 4.0 - 4.9, and Kepler magnitude Kp < 15 mag.

For a first class magnitude star, shining brightly, without holding back, on the brink of destruction.