can you name a few more bright stars?
Sun, Spica etc
List of brightest stars
The Sun is the brightest star as viewed from Earth. 
cma (canis majoris) is so bright it is visible near the rising sun but is better known as Canis Major is a constellation which contains Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky how did this bright star gets its name? Its name is derived from the Greek word "Seirios" "glowing" or "scorching".
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List of brightest stars [SEP] Measurement
The Sun is the brightest star as viewed from Earth. The apparent visual magnitudes of the brightest stars can also be compared to non-stellar objects in our Solar System. Here the maximum visible magnitudes above the second brightest star, Sirius (−1.46), are as follows. Excluding the Sun, the brightest objects are the Moon (−12.7), Venus (−4.89), Jupiter (−2.94), Mars (−2.91), Mercury (−2.45), and Saturn (−0.49). Any exact order of the visual brightness of stars is not perfectly defined for four reasons: