Astronomy 404
Lecture 3, Aug. 27
Fall 2021
Lecture Notes:
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Stars: Physical Properties
Apparent Brightness
magnitude system
data on the
(apparently) brightest stars
Sirius
in
Canus Major
Constellations
maps
on
celestial sphere
Star Colors
Orion
Castor and Pollux
in
Gemini
filters: commonly used
wavelength bands
; a filter
wheel
Dark Energy Survey
g
-band
filter
and transmission curves for
CCD
and
system
LSST
filter
changer
and
transmission curves
multiwavelength comparison: Plieades star cluster
optical
,
infrared
,
X-ray
Luminosity
Distance: Parallax
RECONS
project nearest stars
mapped
,
list
of 100 nearest stars
GAIA
fly through the
Galactic Map
Lecture Archive
Brian D. Fields