It can locate 43 constellations, any first-magnitude stars and all visible planets in seconds.

High up, several first-magnitude stars could already be seen flung aloft as if by a giant hand.

I don't think that you will find, anywhere in the Galaxy, first-magnitude stars so generally distributed.

Almost at once there were smaller flashes, quick bright sparks like stillborn first-magnitude stars.

"Each first-magnitude star sends its own distinct sound," Tom explained.

The planet is so remote that Canopus appears as just a very bright first-magnitude star.

Already, to the east, a few first-magnitude stars could be seen dimpling the oncoming bowl of night.

At closest approach it will be a first-magnitude star about as bright as Antares.

I have also given the first-magnitude stars in each constellation.

It contains one first-magnitude star, Fomalhaut (1.2), and no others above 4.4.