March 5, 9:30pm

I decided to do the exercise in which I determined which star in the Big Dipper was the brightest. I thought the pointer star closest to Polaris was the brightest, but after looking it up, it was the second brightest star. The brightest star was Epsilon Ursae Majoris, or Alioth, at 1.76 magnitudes. The star I thought was the brightest was Alpha Ursae Majoris, or Dubhe, at 1.79 magnitudes. As you can see, the magnitudes are so close it's no wonder I got the wrong star.