The first observer to catalog differences in star brightnesses was Greek astronomer Hipparchus. He created a catalog around 135 b.c. of roughly 850 stars divided into six ranges. He called the ...
The astronomical magnitude system, initially developed by Hipparchus and refined by Ptolemy, quantifies the brightness of celestial objects, with brighter objects having lower magnitudes. Norman R.
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