Spread across a large swath of sky, the Coma Star Cluster is visible this evening for several hours after sunset, gorgeous in ...

A star could be about to become visible in the night sky in a once-every-80-years explosion. Here’s how to easily find T ...

Amanda Hodges/Hodges Photography Magnitude broke quickly and never looked back in a stunning Saturday score. Not only did Magnitude run fast, but he recovered fast as well. Magnitude, performing more ...

Can star magnitude be converted into a useful measurement that can be used for photography? Star brightness in foot-candles? Lumens? How do you convert the apparent magnitude of a star to something ...

The first observer to catalog differences in star brightnesses was Greek astronomer Hipparchus. He created a catalog around 135 B.C.E. of roughly 850 stars divided into six ranges. He called the ...