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Here is a list of the top 150 brightest stars and my attempts at imaging them. I am grateful to Jim Kaler’s page that had a lot of links I could use to pull together some of the same info he had in his list over at http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/bright.html although he seemed to have a better data set for some of his distances and magnitudes, and where they differed, I followed his numbers for magnitude rather than the original source.
I’ve also grouped anything that had a companion or binary star into a single heading I’m calling “doubles”, and where he had two stars ranked as the same number (such as Rigil Kentaurus A and B), I counted them as separate numbers, and cut the list off at 150 or so. It doesn’t give you the nice scientific cut-off of magnitude 3, as his list does, but it still allows me to keep a few in the 101-150 range that would have been cut if I dropped to just 100, or 75, or 50.
Rank Name and description Photo
1
Sirius (Distance: 8.6 LY; Magnitude: -1.46; Number: Double; Colour: White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
2
Canopus (Distance: 309 LY; Magnitude: -0.72; Number: Single; Colour: Yellow-White; Type: Bright Giant)
Location:
x
3
Rigil Kentaurus A (Distance: 4.36 LY; Magnitude: -0.01; Number: Double; Colour: Yellow; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
4
Rigil Kentaurus B (Distance: 4.36 LY; Magnitude: 1.33; Number: Double; Colour: Orange; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
5
Arcturus (Distance: 37 LY; Magnitude: -0.04; Number: Single; Colour: Orange; Type: Giant)
Location:
x
6
Vega (Distance: 25 LY; Magnitude: 0.03; Number: Single; Colour: White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
7
Capella (Distance: 43 LY; Magnitude: 0.08; Number: Double; Colour: Yellow; Type: Giant)
Location:
x
8
Rigel (Distance: 860 LY; Magnitude: 0.12; Number: Double; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Super Giant)
Location:
x
9
Procyon (Distance: 11.5 LY; Magnitude: 0.34; Number: Double; Colour: Yellow-White; Type: Sub-Giant)
Location:
x
10
Achernar (Distance: 140 LY; Magnitude: 0.46; Number: Single; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
11
Hadar (Distance: 392 LY; Magnitude: 0.61; Number: Double; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Giant)
Location:
x
12
Betelgeuse (Distance: 570 LY; Magnitude: 0.7; Number: Single; Colour: Red; Type: Super Giant)
Location:
x
13
Altair (Distance: 16.7 LY; Magnitude: 0.77; Number: Single; Colour: White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
14
Acrux B (Distance: 325 LY; Magnitude: 1.8; Number: Double; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
15
Acrux A (Distance: 325 LY; Magnitude: 1.3; Number: Double; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Sub-Giant)
Location:
x
16
Aldebaran (Distance: 67 LY; Magnitude: 0.85; Number: Single; Colour: Orange; Type: Giant)
Location:
x
17
Antares (Distance: 550 LY; Magnitude: 0.96; Number: Single; Colour: Red; Type: Super Giant)
Location:
x
18
Spica (Distance: 250 LY; Magnitude: 1.04; Number: Double; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
19
Pollux (Distance: 34 LY; Magnitude: 1.14; Number: Single; Colour: Orange; Type: Giant)
Location:
x
20
Fomalhaut (Distance: 25 LY; Magnitude: 1.16; Number: Single; Colour: White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
21
Deneb (Distance: 1425 LY; Magnitude: 1.25; Number: Single; Colour: White; Type: Super Giant)
Location:
x
22
Mimosa (Distance: 280 LY; Magnitude: 1.25; Number: Single; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Giant)
Location:
x
23
Regulus (Distance: 79 LY; Magnitude: 1.35; Number: Double; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
24
Adhara (Distance: 405 LY; Magnitude: 1.5; Number: Double; Colour: Blue-White; Type: Bright Giant)
Location:
x
25
Castor (Distance: 51 LY; Magnitude: 1.58; Number: Quadruple; Colour: White; Type: Dwarf)
Location:
x
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