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Phrases with «surface brightness»

Surface brightness refers to how bright or intense an object appears on its surface. It describes the amount of light emitted or reflected by an object per unit area. Essentially, it measures how bright something looks when you look directly at it. Full definition

Sentences with «surface brightness»

  • Other work performed by the group focused more closely on examining the interactions between clouds and smoke and also the effects of fires on surface brightness. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In any case, the dazzling surface brightness could make the discs harder to resolve than a similarly sized less bright object. (en.wikipedia.org)
  • It is also among the brightest, being at most little less luminous with its estimated apparent visual magnitude 7.4 than the brightest, the Helix Nebula NGC 7293 in Aquarius, with 7.3, which however has a much lower surface brightness because of its larger extension (estimates from Stephen Hynes); it is a bit unusual that this planetary is only little fainter photographically (mag 7.6). (maa.clell.de)
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