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maximum brightness, [66] 725 times fainter than magnitude 6.5 naked eye skies +13.9 moon Titania: seen from Earth Maximum brightness; brightest moon of Uranus +14.1 star WR 102: seen from Earth Hottest known star +15.4: centaur Chiron: seen from Earth maximum brightness [67] +15.55: moon Charon: seen from Earth maximum brightness (the largest ...
[8] [9] Every interval of one magnitude equates to a variation in brightness of 5 √ 100 or roughly 2.512 times. Consequently, a magnitude 1 star is about 2.5 times brighter than a magnitude 2 star, about 2.5 2 times brighter than a magnitude 3 star, about 2.5 3 times brighter than a magnitude 4 star, and so on.
limiting magnitude with 12.5 in (32 cm) reflector is 17.5 (with effort) Venus and Jupiter affect dark adaptation; 2 Typical truly dark site 7.1–7.5 21.6–21.75 the zodiacal light is distinctly yellowish and bright enough to cast shadows at dusk and dawn; airglow may be weakly visible near horizon; the gegenschein is visible
Sky Quality Meter model SQM-L. A sky quality meter (SQM) is an instrument used to measure the luminance of the night sky, more specifically the Night Sky Brightness (NSB) at the zenith, with a bandwidth ranging from 390 nm to 600 nm. [1]
The Sun is the brightest star as viewed from Earth, at −26.78 mag.The second brightest is Sirius at −1.46 mag. For comparison, the brightest non-stellar objects in the Solar System have maximum brightnesses of:
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10 1: 5 cd/m 2: Approximate mesopic/photopic threshold [8] 25 cd/m 2: Typical photographic scene at sunrise or sunset [7] 30 cd/m 2: Green electroluminescent source ...
By measuring these properties from a star's spectrum, the position of a main sequence star on the H–R diagram can be determined, and thereby the star's absolute magnitude estimated. A comparison of this value with the apparent magnitude allows the approximate distance to be determined, after correcting for interstellar extinction of the ...