Abstract: The brightness ratio between two celestial objects the flux ratio is defined as where and are the apparent magnitudes of the objects. The magnitude scale is a much more convenient way to express brightness measurements than using actual brightness measurements that use much larger numbers. Brightness and magnitude are important introductory topics in basic astronomy.;
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-05-21
Language: en
Type: dataset
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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