Thursday, November 6, 2014

great world wide star count

In the Northern Hemisphere, it took me a little time to find Cygnus but I found it using Mr. Percival's techniques, Cygnus is a 2nd magnitude star and has Deneb as well. It is also in the summer triangle along with Vega and Altair. I saw a total of 6 stars in this cross. This means that I saw magnitude 4 stars around my location. The amount of stars that were visible is roughly 540 stars. Therefore, I could not see 13,460 star.

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