A Conversation for Project: Light Pollution
Letter to your local Borough Councill.
Professor Sarah Bellum Started conversation Oct 7, 2000
I just wanted to point out an error in your letter. I know that it isn't very important by if the reader of the letter see it then he/she may not take as much notice.
The brightest star in the sky is not Vega.
It is Sirius.
The stars are as follows:-
Star Apparent Magnitude
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Sirius -1.46
Canopus -0.72
Arcturs -0.06
Aplha Centauri A -0.01
Vega +0.04
This shows that Sirius (and three others are bighter than Vega). I don't like to nit-pick but the reader of the letter may (like me) spot the mistake immediatley and it looks better if the letter appears to be written by a profesional. I'm not saying that it does not but some people take the smallest mistake and assume that it was written by an amuteaur.
I'm not sure about the spelling.
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Yeliab {h2g2as} Posted Oct 25, 2000
Hmm, that really was a stupid mistake, don't know what I was thinking. I'll put that right.
Thank you.
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