The star is slightly dimmer than planet Neptune as perceived with the naked eye, which has an apparent magnitude of 7.78 at its brightest.

Smaller bumps should be slightly dimmer than big ones.

Guiding her toward a sliding door, Lekket gestured Janeway into a slightly dimmer room.

It is slightly dimmer than Neptune, which has an apparent magnitude of 7.78 at its brightest.

Viewed from the planet, our own Sun would appear as a bright star of apparent magnitude +0.47, slightly dimmer than Procyon appears from Earth.

The reduction, known as a brownout, meant that lights were slightly dimmer and television images appeared shrunken, Ms. Hanson said.

Instantly, the normal bright, indirect electric light went off, to be replaced by slightly dimmer orange and yellow light sources provided by chemical reactions.

First, overall power to the area was cut by eight percent shortly before midnight Friday, making lights slightly dimmer and television images smaller.

When there are many sunspots on the sun's face, the sun should be slightly dimmer, and the SMM radiometer has indeed detected this effect.

The primary star is a yellow dwarf (main sequence) star of spectral type G8V, which is slightly more massive but slightly dimmer than our sun.