Talk:List of brightest stars
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(moved from article:) Magnitudes should be added at some point, plus maybe some basis stellar data, tabulate...
I created a new list, this one of 100 brightest stars, started with the Observer's Handbook list of 314 bightest stars, and sorted by brightness, and reformatted here. I included apparent magnitude and constellation designation names, as well as proper names. There may be value in giving distance, luminosity, spectral types, or other information, but I didn't have these easily available now.
It looks like most of the proper names are good links to articles about the stars, although I didn't check them all.
Feel free to edit further.
--Tomruen 05:30, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
This list is inaccurate. I have gone through and added proper names to the stars that have them, or links to Bayer designations where the star does not have one so that an entry can be created for them. I have not dealt with the inaccuracies yet (for example, τ CrB is listed as the 50th brightest star when it's visual magnitude is far dimmer than a 4) but may do so in the future. Arkyan 20:15, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
- I agree it is inaccurate and also difficult to verify. It claims the Hipparcos as the source of distances but gives no good link for me to check (I tried and failed via http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/hipparcos.html). Also what is the source of the magnitudes? It does not appear to be the Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (I checked a few). Finally I've moved the text about the list being ill defined to the top to warn the reader, and marked Polaris and Betelgeuse as variable. -Wikibob | Talk 18:13, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)
Stub?
Why is this still a stub? It seems long enough that the term should no longer apply. Whitepaw 20:04, 2005 May 4 (UTC)