# Brightest Stars (by its Apparent Magnitude) List beyond 300

I've been observing the stars and I have found some lists on internet that sort them by its apparent magnitude (m), so you end up with lists of brightest-stars like this one: https://www.star-facts.com/brightest-stars/

The problem is that I would like to sort them beyond 300 (The maximum amount that I've found on internet sites), but I don't know where can I find (or if it even exist) such a list. The star number 300 (Xi Serpentis) has a apparent magnitude of 3.54, but there are some other stars like: Atlas (m = 3.62) that have apparent magnitudes bigger of 3.54. I would like to know what position stars like these they occupy

The Yale Bright Star Catalogue lists stars brighter than about magnitude 6.5.

It is available as a compressed text file documented in the readme file

A sample of the first 10 lines

   1          BD+44 4550      3 36042          46           000001.1+444022000509.9+451345114.44-16.88 6.70  +0.07 +0.08         A1Vn               -0.012-0.018      -018      195  4.2  21.6AC   3
2          BD-01 4525      6128569                       235956.2-010330000503.8-003011 98.33-61.14 6.29  +1.10 +1.02        gG9                 +0.045-0.060      +014V
3 33    PscBD-06 6357     281285721002I         Var?     000013.0-061601000520.1-054227 93.75-65.93 4.61  +1.04 +0.89 +0.54   K0IIIbCN-0.5       -0.009+0.089 +.014-006SB1O < 17  2.5   0.0     3*
4 86    PegBD+12 5063     87 917012004                   000033.8+125023000542.0+132346106.19-47.98 5.51  +0.90               G5III              +0.045-0.012      -002V?
5          BD+57 2865    123 21085          61  V640 Cas 000101.8+575245000616.0+582612117.03-03.92 5.96  +0.67 +0.20         G5V                +0.263+0.030 +.047-012V          0.8   1.4      *
6          CD-4914337    142214963      W                000108.4-493751000619.0-490430321.61-66.38 5.70  +0.52 +0.05         G1IV               +0.565-0.038 +.050+003SB         5.7   5.4      *
7 10    CasBD+63 2107    144 109782005                   000114.4+633822000626.5+641146118.06  1.75 5.59  -0.03 -0.19         B9III             e+0.008 0.000      -000V     153                 *
8          BD+28 4704    166 73743          69     33    000125.2+282811000636.8+290117111.26-32.83 6.13  +0.75 +0.33         K0V                +0.380-0.182 +.067-008V          2.6 158.6AB   4*
9          CD-23    4    2031660531003                   000143.0-233947000650.1-230627 52.21-79.14 6.18  +0.38 +0.05         A7V                +0.100-0.045      +003V
10          BD-18 6428    256147090                       000211.8-175639000718.2-172311 74.36-75.90 6.19  +0.14 +0.10         A6Vn               -0.018+0.036      -009V?    195                 *


There is lots of information here, the visual magnitude is in the column which begins 6.70\6.29\4.61

The entry for Atlas is

1178 27    TauBD+23  557  23850 76228 142    2786   1345    034312.8+234452034909.7+240312167.01-23.23 3.63  -0.09 -0.36 -0.05   B8III              +0.018-0.047 -.026+009SB1O  212  1.5   0.0 A   3*


Showing that it has a visual magnitude of 3.63

• Just out of curiosity, how many stars were in that catalogue at the time of this answer (since the question is specifically looking for more than 300 stars). Aug 13 '21 at 17:22
• Thanks, but how do I make sense of its columns? The brightest star is Sirius in Canis Major and I don't see any information that resembles that. What are the meaning of the columns? Aug 13 '21 at 18:15