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What is the stellar magnitude of Lyra?
'Lyra' is a constellation ... a collection of stars ... and each one has a different magnitude. The brightest star in Lyra is 'Vega'. Vega was actually chosen as the standard for the magnitude...
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Give two reasons why the stellar magnitude might be confusing?
You have two main categories of magnitude. Apparent magnitude is how bright a star appears to be when we look at it. Different stars appear to have different levels of brightness. However all of the...
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What is 'magnitude'?
The term 'magnitude' has a few senses: 1: a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the...
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What is the magnitude?
Spacial size or quantity. It's just another word for how big something is, usually reserved for earthquakes and (the brightness of) stars.
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Compare apparent magnitude and absolute magnitude?
Apparent Magnitude is the star's brightness as it appears from earth, while, Absolute Magnitude is the apparent brightness of a star if viewed from a distance of 32.6 light years away.