Affiliation:
1. University of Southern Mississippi , Hattiesburg, MS
Abstract
Magnitudes—how astronomers express brightnesses of stars—are confusing to those unfamiliar with them, to say the least. They use a modified version of base-10 logarithms. The smaller—or more negative—the magnitude, the brighter the object. An object with a magnitude of zero is not an object with no brightness but instead is rather bright.
Publisher
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,Education
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