Sentences with phrase «apparent magnitude of»

Easily the brightest object we can see, with an apparent magnitude of − 26.74.

This is about 13 billion times brighter than the next brightest star, Sirius, which has an apparent magnitude of − 1.46.

M54 has an apparent magnitude of 8.37 and lies at a distance of 87,400 light years from Earth.

The system is composed of a blue - white giant with the stellar classification of B9III - IV and a visual magnitude of 5.33, a white subgiant belonging to the stellar class A0IVMn with an apparent magnitude of 5.63, and a star with a magnitude of 8.5 separated from the second component by 37.7 arc seconds.

The galaxy has an apparent magnitude of 9.8 and lies at an approximate distance of 55 million light years from Earth.

The brighter component has an apparent magnitude of +5.57 and is classified as a blue - white B - type main sequence dwarf.

The Whirlpool Galaxy has an apparent magnitude of 8.4 and lies at an approximate distance of 23 million light years from Earth.

Messier 69 lies at a distance of 29,700 light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 8.31.

Messier 31 has an apparent magnitude of 3.44.

With an apparent magnitude of 2.84, it is the brightest star in the Ara constellation.

The brightest star in the constellation is Eta Piscium, with an apparent magnitude of 3.62.

It has an apparent magnitude of 7.6 and is 25,800 light years distant from Earth and about 3,800 light years away from the Galactic centre.

The galaxy lies at an approximate distance of 60 million light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 10.

It has an apparent magnitude of 12.68 and is approximately 60 million light years distant from Earth.

The brightest star in the constellation is Kornephoros, Beta Herculis, with an apparent magnitude of 2.81.

The galaxies lie at an approximate distance of 52 million light years from Earth and have an apparent magnitude of 10.

NGC 6352 is a globular cluster with an apparent magnitude of 7.8.

The galaxy is located approximately 11.8 million light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 6.94.

These visual apparent magnitudes are much dimmer than the apparent magnitude of the Sun as viewed from the Earth (− 26.7).

Even during the time of this nearest approach, however, the apparent magnitude of Alpha Centauri will still not surpass that of Sirius, which will brighten incrementally over the next 60,000 years, and will continue to be the brightest star as seen from Earth for the next 210,000 years.

[90] Then it will reach the stationary radial velocity (RVel) of 0.0 km / s and the maximum apparent magnitude of − 0.86 v (which is comparable to present - day magnitude of Canopus).

Not exact matches

It's prudent for courts and congress to exercise caution before restructuring liability theories for the purpose of addressing specific market abuses, despite their apparent present magnitude.

The magnitude and severity of those risks did not become apparent until much later.

[A] mong the elements to be taken into account for purposes of determining what constitutes an «extraordinary» action, which would normally be outside the apparent authority of senior executives, are the economic magnitude of the action in relation to corporate assets and earnings, the extent of risk involved, the time span of the action's effect, and the cost of reversing the action.

The magnitude of the Republicans» loss was underscored by the apparent defeat of Diane McNally, the trustees» former longtime clerk who has served on the board for more than two decades.

The true magnitude of the change will become apparent when the Conservatives get back into power - if the current chamber survives that long.

«We have carefully examined the early data of the Subaru Strategic Survey with HSC and found an apparent over density of stars in Virgo with very high statistical significance, showing a characteristic pattern of an ancient stellar system in the color - magnitude diagram,» he said.

Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in the sky on a scale of apparent magnitude — the brighter the object, the greater the negative number; the dimmer, the greater the positive number.

In late April, when the magnitude of the spill became apparent, InnoCentive posted an emergency - response challenge on behalf of BP, with no cash reward.

A reddish giant star, it has an apparent visual magnitude of 1.15.

The observer would plot the path of a meteor among the stars on a chart and note its apparent magnitude, the time, and other information.

[34] Alpha Centauri B at an apparent visual magnitude of 1.33 would be twenty - first in brightness if it could be seen independently of Alpha Centauri A.

With an apparent visual magnitude of 6.3, [2] it lies below the normal brightness limit of stars that are visible with the naked eye under ideal viewing conditions.

The Sun would be a yellow star of an apparent visual magnitude of +0.5 in eastern Cassiopeia, at the antipodal point of Alpha Centauri's current right ascension and declination, at 02h 39m 35s +60 ° 50 ′ (2000).

When considered among the individual brightest stars in the sky (excluding the Sun), Alpha Centauri A is the fourth brightest at an apparent visual magnitude of +0.01, being fractionally fainter than Arcturus at an apparent visual magnitude of − 0.04.

Furthermore, Alpha Centauri A's sidereal period of approximately eighty years means that this star would move through the local ecliptic as slowly as Uranus with its eighty - four year period, but as the orbit of Alpha Centauri A is more elliptical, its apparent magnitude will be far more variable.

HE 1327 - 2326 (13:30:06 - 23:41:51 at Equinox 2000) has an apparent visual magnitude of 13.5 (Frebel et al, 2005).

Ok, I did a preliminary check on the Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia; I converted all stellar apparent magnitudes to absolute magnitudes, those to luminosity (* solar), and calculated the inner and outer boundaries of the HZ, generously assuming an inner edge of 0.9 AU and an outer edge of 1.5 AU for our own solar system.

The fact that the risk elevation was apparent directly after cancer diagnosis, and decreased in magnitude over time, supports the conclusion that the risk increase may be traced to the diagnosis itself rather than the emotional or physical suffering related to progression of the cancer or to its treatment.

With an apparent visual magnitude of +4.118, it is bright enough to be viewed with the naked eye.

The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars.

The galaxy has an apparent visual magnitude of 14.7.

It has an apparent magnitude that varies from 6.5 to 14.0 over a pulsational period of 732 days.

The failings of ETS which are now apparent are of a considerable magnitude.

The difference between GT and Sport + is far from so wide as to render either a waste, with Aston electing to avoid things like, for example, dialing - in a magnitude of steering effort with no apparent benefit other than tiring your arms.

Therefore those short term factors are what has affected the last ten years, causing the nonsignificant apparent 10 year decrease in the magnitude of the overall 30 year warming trend.

For smaller changes, this may not be so apparent or important (a doubling of CO2 from 280 to 560 ppm may have about the same magnitude of forcing and result in the same magnitude of feedback as halving CO2 from 560 to 280 ppm).

Our model, for example, predicts the magnitude of the reduction of cooling following the eruptions and the delay in the apparent cooling evidence in the tree - ring record (i.e. in AD 1262 rather than AD 1258).

Since the Eastern Tropical Pacific is not entirely decoupled from West Wind Drift given the general pattern of circulation in the SE Pacific, the question arises is the magnitude of the observed overall energy difference in the recently observed «extended» La Nina phase of ENSO condition relative to the the «more normal» ENSO comparable in magnitude to energy associated with the apparent increase in winds and potentially currents around the Antarctic?

, I think that from what we can see from direct measurements (~ 150 years) and infer from proxies (up to millions of years) that it is apparent there are psuedo - cycles (your saw) that extend across several orders of magnitude (perhaps best described with a fractal)-- everything from day / night, through summer / winter, PDO / AMO, the approximately 80, 300 and 1500 year cycles all the way through the 100k Milankovitch and perhaps beyond.