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Uncommon card · Science
Apparent magnitude, an Uncommon card
Apparent magnitude is a measure of the brightness of a star, astronomical object or other celestial objects like artificial satellites.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 153
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 140,000
Power 153 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Apparent magnitude quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Apparent magnitude card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Unless stated otherwise, the word magnitude in astronomy usually refers to a ______ object's apparent magnitude.
Answer
celestial. Unless stated otherwise, the word magnitude in astronomy usually refers to a celestial object's apparent magnitude. From the Apparent magnitude article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Andrei Sakharov. Andrei Sakharov 84 · Apparent magnitude 80 · Samara 77 · Anna Freud 74 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Its value depends on its intrinsic luminosity, its distance, and any extinction of the object's light caused by interstellar dust or atmosphere along the line of sight to the observer.
- Unless stated otherwise, the word magnitude in astronomy usually refers to a celestial object's apparent magnitude.
- The magnitude scale likely dates to before the ancient Roman astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, whose star catalog popularized the system by listing stars from 1st magnitude to 6th magnitude.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Apparent magnitude article was read about 140,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get Apparent magnitude
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Apparent magnitude (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kevin Heider @ LightBuckets, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
