As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus has been significant to observers since antiquity.

As one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus has been the subject of a number of studies in the emerging field of asteroseismology.

) Along with Aldebaran, Spica, and Regulus it is one of the four brightest stars near the ecliptic.

Big Dipper is the American term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major, called the Plough in Britain.

For the most part, Bayer assigned Greek and Latin letters to stars in rough order of apparent brightness, from brightest to dimmest, within a particular constellation.

Since in a majority of constellations the brightest star is designated Alpha ( α ), many people wrongly assume that Bayer meant to put the stars exclusively in order of their brightness, but in his day there was no way to measure stellar brightness precisely.

For example, the asterism known as the Big Dipper corresponds to the seven brightest stars of the larger IAU constellation of Ursa Major.

The brightest stars, usually the stars that make up the constellation's eponymous asterism, also retain proper names, often from Arabic.

The five brightest stars in Crux are clearly visible in the top right.

The brightest stars are mostly blue supergiants, though the cluster contains a few bright red supergiants.

The flag of the Mercosur trading zone displays the four brightest stars.

* List of brightest stars

Although Camelopardalis is the 18th largest constellation, it is not a particularly bright constellation, as the brightest stars are only of fourth magnitude.

It contains approximately 100 stars, the brightest of which are 7th magnitude.

However, most of the brightest stars of Centaurus, including α Cen, θ Cen, ε Cen and η Cen, can be seen in the Chinese sky.

* List of brightest stars

Delphinus's brightest stars form a distinctive asterism that can easily be recognized.

Delphinus does not have any bright stars ; its brightest star is of magnitude 3. 6.

The main asterism in Delphinus is Job's Coffin, formed from the four brightest stars: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Delphini.

* List of brightest stars

Most of the brightest stars in Lupus are massive members of the nearest OB association, Scorpius-Centaurus.

Its principal star, Vega ( Abhijit in Sanskrit ), a corner of the Summer Triangle, is one of the brightest stars in the sky.

Lyra's brightest stars include the following:

Alpha Crucis ( α Cru, α Crucis, also Acrux, HD 108248 ) is the brightest star in the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross, and, at a combined visual magnitude 0. 77, is the twelfth brightest star in the night sky.

Beta Crucis, also known as Mimosa or Becrux, is the second brightest star in the constellation Crux ( after Alpha Crucis or Acrux ) and is the 19th brightest star in the night sky.

With an apparent visual magnitude of + 1. 63, this is the third-brightest star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross, and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.

This makes the antisolar point appear the brightest.

Their beauty is mentioned in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones ( 1749 ), in which Fielding remarked, " How contemptible would the brightest Circassian beauty, drest in all the jewels of the Indies, appear to my eyes!

Particularly the brightest colors, red and green, appear darkest.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.

This is the brightest color indigo that can be approximated on a computer screen — it is a color located between the web color blue and the color violet on the RGB color wheel.

Some LCD monitors using this technology have a feature called " Dynamic Contrast " where the backlight is dimmed to the brightest color that appears on the screen, allowing the 1000: 1 contrast ratio of the LCD panel to be scaled to different light intensities, resulting in the " 30000: 1 " contrast ratios seen in the advertising on some of these monitors.

Historically, the most prominent stars on the celestial sphere were grouped together into constellations and asterisms, and the brightest stars gained proper names.

This is representative of the debilitating effects corruption has even on the brightest mind.

In 1951, after introducing and directing one of the Actors Studio's brightest young talents, Marlon Brando, in the stage version, he went on to cast him in film version of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which made Brando a star and won 4 Oscars, being nominated for 12.

This, plus its blend of engineering and liberal arts, attracted some of the nation's brightest students, many of whom went on to distinguished careers in industry and engineering.

The approach on September 29, 2004, was particularly close, at 0. 0104 AU ( within 4 lunar distances ) from Earth, presenting a good opportunity for observation, with Toutatis shining at magnitude 8. 8 when brightest.

In the case of multiple stars, the letters C, D, and so on may be used to denote additional components, often in order of increasing separation from the brightest star, A.

Commentators have observed at least seven times in which Wesley, " who has trouble getting into the Starfleet Academy " and is on a ship " filled with Starfleet's best and brightest crew members ", has come up " with the needed solution ".

The brightest colours on most hornbills, like this pair of Knobbed Hornbill s, are found on the beaks and bare skin of the face and throat.

From the perspective of observers on Earth, the Hyades Cluster appears in the constellation Taurus, where its brightest stars form a " V " shape along with the still brighter red giant Aldebaran.

On its north-west edge lies the 32 km wide Aristarchus ray crater, which is considered as the brightest feature on the Near side of the Moon.

The brightest spot in the village's history came on August 1, 1990, when Northfield Square Mall opened.

The thunderstorm that created the tornado also put on one of the brightest lightning shows in recorded history, generating 200 strikes per minute.

He realized that to keep viewers, the best and brightest in entertainment had to be seen, or else the viewers were going to keep on changing the channel.

The series received nearly universal positive reviews, with Shawkat's performance occasionally singled out for praise ; pop-culture commentator Brian M. Palmer remarked that she was " one of the brightest lights on a show populated solely by bright lights ," and Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic described her as " one funny young lady.

The Summer Triangle is an astronomical asterism involving an imaginary triangle drawn on the northern hemisphere's celestial sphere, with its defining vertices at Altair, Deneb, and Vega, being the brightest stars in the three constellations of Aquila, Cygnus, and Lyra.

gets 9. 0 to 9. 5 degrees below the horizon ( at summer solstice this is at latitudes 57 ° 30 ′– 57 ° 00 ′), zenith gets dark even on cloud-free nights ( if there is no full moon ); more than just the brightest shining stars are clearly visible in a large majority of the sky.

A good recent case in point are the three large X-class flares having occurred in December 2006, very near solar minimum ; one of these ( an X9. 0 flare on Dec 5 ) stands as one of the brightest on record.