Stars, Magnitudes, and Filters
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What are photons?
Photons are light packets carrying energy.
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Blue light _____ more energy compared to red ones.
carries
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What is one of the brightest stars in our galaxy?
Eta Carinae.
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Lumonsity describes…
The total power of the star.
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What is flux?
The number of photons passing through a surface a second.
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How is flux measured?
Based on how far the star is.
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What can impact how photons arrive at your telescope?
Dectectors, atmospheric transparency, telescope imperfections, and local sources of stray light.
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How can you estimate the brightness of stars?
By comparing them to one another.
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What did Hipparchus do in 129 B.C.?
Produced the first known catalog of stars.
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What did Ptolemy do?
Created a 6 catagory catalog measuring the brightness of stars (Alamogest)
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What catalog is most compariable to the one we use today?
Ptolemy’s Alamagest catalog
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Who updated the Alamagest catalog?
Al-Battani (500 stars in 899 A.D.) and Al-Sufi (1151 stars in 964 A.D.)
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Who was the first person to introduce trig into the catalog calculations?
Al-Battani
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What did Tycho Brahes do in 1603?
Catalogged 777 stars in the Uranometria.
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What did Galileo do?
Discovered that magnitudes can describe the brightnesses of stars.
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What did Edmond Halley do?
Produced a 341 star catalog.
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What did William Herschel notice?
That measurements of stars were inconsistent with one another.
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What can photographic plates do?
Photograph nebulas.
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How many stars are catalogged today?
300 million stars as of 2006.
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What can telescope filters allow you to see?
Certain colors, wavelengths, and energies of light.
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