What is brighter than the Betelgeuse in the orion constellation?

The Betelgeuse happens to be the second brightest star, am I correct? Thus what is brighter than the Betelgeuse?|||I don't know about those other stars but Vega is the brightest Pole Star yet it's not even the current Pole Star.|||Rigel is brighter in apparent magnitude.



The Bayer-Flamsteed designations are not solely based in order of apparent magnitude. Bayer likely knew Rigel was brighter. What he did was list all the stars of first magntude in one column, and lettered them from Norheast (Betelgeuse) to Sothwest (Rigel).



There are 28 constellations with their brightest star that do not have the alpha designation:



Beta Orionis (Rigel)

Beta Crucis (Mimosa)

Epsilon Ursae Majoris (Alioth)

Gamma Velorum (Suhail al Muhlif)

Epsilon Sagittarii (Kaus Australis)

Beta Ceti (Deneb Kaitos)

Gamma Draconis

Zeta Puppis (Naos)

Epsilon Pegasi (Enif)

Gamma Corvi (Gienah Ghurab)

Beta Librae(Zubenelschemali)

Beta Herculi (Kornephoros)

Beta Hydri

Beta Arae

Delta Capricorni (Deneb Algedi)

Beta Aquarii (Sadal Sud)

Beta Trianguli

Gamma Sagittae

Beta Cancri

Delta Crateris

Eta Piscium

Beta Delphini

Nu Octantis

Beta Volantis

46Leo Minoris

Gamma Normae

Beta Camelopardalis

Gamma Microscopii|||Rigel is actually brighter than Betelgeuse of all stars in the Orion constellation, but there are six other stars even brighter than that in other constellations. Here's the list:



Sun (duh)

Sirius

Canopus

Alpha Centauri

Arcturus

Vega

Capella

Rigel

Procyon

Achernar

Betelgeuse





Hope this helps...



%26gt; Jimmer %26lt;|||Jimmer is right,





For some reason they thought Betelgeuse was brighter when the called ir Alpha 200 years ago, perhaps it was then|||Sirius is the brightest star we can see with our naked eye. Well besides our own star.|||In terms of absolute or apparent magnitude?