Apparent Magnitude. The apparent magnitude of a celestial object, such as a star or galaxy, is the brightness measured by an observer at a specific distance from the object. The smaller the distance between the observer and object, the greater the apparent brightness.(left) Two stars, A and B, with the same apparent magnitude.(right) However, star A is actually a more luminous star that is further away from the Earth than than star B. Two objects that have the same apparent magnitude, as seen from the Earth, may either be:o convert the apparent magnitude, m, of a star into a real magnitude for the star (absolute magnitude, M), we need to know the distance, d to the star. Alternatively, if we know the distance and the absolute magnitude of a star, we can calculate its apparent magnitude. Both calculations are made using:
Language: English. The state motto of Texas is  Friendship .. The word, Texas, or Tejas, was the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word meaning friends or allies.. House Concurrent Resolution No. 22, 41st Legislature, 4th Called Session (1930) p. 105. Texas is from the Caddo Indian word teyshas (meaning friends or allies).
For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation) . A motto (derived from the Latin muttum, 'mutter', by way of Italian motto, 'word', 'sentence') is a maxim, a phrase meant to formally summarize the general motivation or intention of an individual, family, social group or organization.xamples of unusual choices in motto language include: 1  County of Somerset, Sumorsaete ealle (All men of Somerset), Anglo-Saxon; 2  South Cambridgeshire in the English Fens, Niet Zonder Arbyt (Not Without Labour), Dutch 3  : South Africa, Çke e: Çxarra Çke (Unity in diversity}, ÇXam.