Talk:Magnitude (astronomy)

This is the shittiest "Simple" English article ever. It's no easier or more simple than the regular wiki article, filled with industry-specific, confusing jargon. GreaseballNYC (talk) 00:43, 14 February 2017 (UTC)

You are completely correct. I have slightly improved the intro by importing a few sentences from the ENWP version. Perhaps other editors will want to make further improvements, for example putting some history into the intro and moving the math into a section. Jim.henderson (talk) 21:24, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

One or two articles?

Is it better to combine apparent and absolute magnitude into the same article, or have different articles for each? If it's covering both, perhaps the intro should be modified to talk about both. Something like "The magnitude of a celestial object is a number that measures its brightness." rather than opening with a definition of just apparent magnitude. Lights and freedom (talk) 18:58, 3 April 2023 (UTC)