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list of navigational stars[edit]

The list published in Bowditch was varying over time. --62.167.216.103 (talk) 10:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I've just made a comparison of the stars listed here against the "list of brightest stars" wikipedia page, and several of the apparent magnitudes don't line up. Particularly: Alpha CenAB, Capella, Betelgeuse, Acrux, Dubhe, Polaris, Alphecca, Avior, and Geinah all have apparent magnitudes that are not in agreement with the general consensus. (82.176.64.135 (talk) 13:05, 15 April 2014 (UTC))[reply]

Color[edit]

Wouldn't it be helpful to mention the colors of the stars? TomS TDotO (talk) 21:27, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Magnitude errors[edit]

As an IP user wrote in 2014, several of the apparent magnitudes are way off. Capella is one obvious example, which isn't even close to correct. Some of the double stars seem to have the magnitude listed for only one of the components (the brightest or another), which isn't relevant when the star is used for navigation. Fomalhaut76 (talk) 12:27, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No idea where that figure for Capella came from. Wikipedia should use the figures in SIMBAD.Skeptic2 (talk) 12:54, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]