Popular Astronomy, Volume 50Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1942 |
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... absolute magnitudes at maximum are -5.8 and 99 ; their median is -7.8 , which appears in the sixth column . In a similar manner the remaining data of the last two columns were derived . TABLE 2 MEAN PARALLAXES AND ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDES OF ...
... absolute magnitudes at maximum are -5.8 and 99 ; their median is -7.8 , which appears in the sixth column . In a similar manner the remaining data of the last two columns were derived . TABLE 2 MEAN PARALLAXES AND ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDES OF ...
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... absolute magnitude of VZ Tucanae was 5.9 . - Three novae have been found in the Greater Cloud , but only two are usable for our purpose . The first , RY Doradus , 1926 , was incom- pletely observed . Its brightest recorded magnitude was ...
... absolute magnitude of VZ Tucanae was 5.9 . - Three novae have been found in the Greater Cloud , but only two are usable for our purpose . The first , RY Doradus , 1926 , was incom- pletely observed . Its brightest recorded magnitude was ...
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... magnitudes 4.7 and 4.0 , but either of them could have been two magnitudes brighter at maximum . The third was probably observed nearer maximum , at magnitude 16.6 , 13 and perhaps brighter , 11 so that its absolute magnitude was ...
... magnitudes 4.7 and 4.0 , but either of them could have been two magnitudes brighter at maximum . The third was probably observed nearer maximum , at magnitude 16.6 , 13 and perhaps brighter , 11 so that its absolute magnitude was ...
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Bolide observed A bright 451 | 114 |
STELLAR DISTANCES FREDERICK SLOCUM | 117 |
METEORITIC FOSSILS BEN HUR WILSON | 125 |
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