The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Magnitude

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Comparative brightness; the stars are of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh magnitudes; stars smaller than the seventh magnitude cannot be seen with the naked eye, and are called telescopic stars.

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