Sentences with phrase «magnitude star in»

On November 6, 2010, three teams of astronomers using three different telescopes tracking the occultation of a 17th - magnitude star in the north - central part of Constellation Cetus by Eris revealed preliminary results indicating that the dwarf planet may be smaller in diameter than Pluto after all, based on the unexpectedly short times of occultation reported.

Blazing with the light of 60,000 suns, it is the farthest first - magnitude star in the heavens, a lighthouse of the galaxy.

Not exact matches

Saturn and Mars are easily as brilliant as 1st - magnitude stars, so you should have no trouble seeing them in the moon's glare.

Morningstar mutual funds rating provides an up - to - date quantitative evaluation of over one thousand three hundred open - end mutual funds» past performance, both in terms of risk and return, using a magnitude of one to five stars.

Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in the hit movie «Up in the Air,» told CNN that she began panicking during preproduction, as the magnitude of the undertaking - simultaneously directing and playing the lead role, lots of child actors, and 25 scenes that included music - became clear.

Or perhaps the kind of immortality Goethe allowed to his friend Wieland, when he said in his conversation with Falk: «I would not be at all surprised if I met Wieland again some thousands of years hence as a star of the first magnitude..., and saw with my own eyes how he infused everything around him with a pleasant light.»

«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.

The standard method for doing this is to look for a characteristic distribution of stars in the color - magnitude diagram (comparable to the Hertzsprung - Russell diagram.

In 1781, British astronomer William Herschel was trying to catalog all the stars magnitude -8 or brighter.

The stars in the Big Dipper are second magnitude and the stars in Cassiopeia are also second magnitude, so they're bright, but they're not amazingly bright.

This results in the accumulation of precise mutations (stars in green cells) as a function of the magnitude and duration of exposure to the input.

This factor is estimated from the counts of faint stars in the CoRoT fields (Fig. 7 in Deleuil et al. 2009), comparing them at the dominant magnitude for both contaminants in CoRoT and the sample analyzed by Brown.

These magnitudes provide colour indices implying an M2 - M5 donor star assuming 60 % contribution from a disc component in the r» - band.

This map is a plot of every star in the Hipparcos catalog with an absolute magnitude brighter than -0.5 within 2000 light years.

The internal structures of giant planets are much less well known than those of main - sequence stars because of uncertainties in the equation of state of degenerate gas, the composition (typically non-solar), the interaction with the magnetic field and, in the upper layers, the relative magnitudes of internal heat and energy deposited from the sun.

This zero - magnitude star is visible with the naked eye as the third brightest star after Sirius A and Arcturus in Earth's northern skies, and is fifth brightest star overall.

Our measurements result in an outburst amplitude greater than 4.3 magnitudes, which favours an orbital period < 21 h and a companion star with a spectral type later than ~ A0.

Kappa Lyrae, Latinized from κ Lyrae, is a solitary 4th magnitude star approximately 238 light years away from Earth, in the northern constellation of Lyra.

These stars vary in magnitude at regular intervals, giving them a pulsating appearance.

A key indicator of this energy distribution is given by the color index, B — V, which measures the star's magnitude in blue (B) and green - yellow (V) light by means of filters.

Thus, this difference in magnitude provides a measure of a star's temperature.

Such a star is predicted to have a crystalline solid crust, wherein bare atomic nuclei would be held in a lattice of rigidity and strength some 18 orders of magnitude greater than that of steel.

Main sequence stars in this region experience only small changes in magnitude and so this variation is difficult to detect.

English explorer Robert Hues brought Alpha Centauri to the attention of European observers in his 1592 work Tractatus de Globis, along with Canopus and Achernar, noting «Now, therefore, there are but three Stars of the first magnitude that I could perceive in all those parts which are never seene here in England.

We marginally confirm the existence of an offset between the disk center and the star along the line of nodes; however, the magnitude of this offset (x = 27 -LSB--20, +19] mas) is notably lower than that found in our earlier H - band images (Thalmann et al. 2010).

Listed as V645 Cen in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (G.C.V.S.) Version 4.2, this UV Ceti - type flare star can unexpectedly brighten rapidly by as much as 0.6 magnitudes at visual wavelengths, then fade after only a few minutes.

He found 149 member stars within 27.2», with the following distribution in magnitudes:

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.

We find that a single, relatively simple model is consistent with all the available observational constraints spanning 4 orders of magnitude in wavelength and spatial scales, providing strong support for this interpretation of UX Orionis stars.

According to this page, there are planned observations in a special mode for stars with Gaia magnitudes less than 3 (which would include Alpha Centauri), but it remains to be seen what kind of accuracy can be achieved.

This second magnitude star is the 24th brightest (and the brightest red giant) in Earth's night sky.

The magnitude of the shift in the starlight's wavelength — on the order of quadrillionths of a meter — together with the period of the wobble can be used to determine an exoplanet's mass and orbital distance from its star.

Vega, also called Alpha Lyrae, brightest star in the northern constellation Lyra and fifth brightest in the night sky, with a visual magnitude of 0.03.

The dilution of the host star's light by the nearly equal magnitude stellar companion (~ 0.5 magnitudes fainter) significantly affects the derived planetary parameters, and if left uncorrected, leads to an underestimate of the radius and mass of the planet by 10 %... ▽ More We present the discovery of a hot Jupiter transiting an F star in a close visual (0.3» sky projected angular separation) binary system.

The nebula is variable in brightness because the star varies in brightness between magnitudes 9.3 and 14.0.

Denebola has been classed as a Delta Scuti - type variable star (which vary in brightness by small amounts over periods lasting only hours and including radial as well as non-radial pulsations) as it exhibits small, Delta Sculti - type variability with around a 2.09 to 2.16 visual magnitude difference — in V on UBV Johnson system (Mkrtichian and Yurkov, 1998).

We are also able to determine the oscillation amplitudes for stars that span about two orders of magnitude in luminosity and find good agreement with the prediction that oscillation amplitudes scale as the luminosity to the power of 0.7.

«The angular momentum that resides in typical interstellar clouds is many orders of magnitude higher than the angular momentum we compute for the relatively slowly spinning young stars; where and how has the protostar shed that angular momentum during contraction?

Lastly, we distinguish between red giant branch and red clump stars through the measurement of the period spacing of mixed dipole modes in 53 stars among all the three clusters to verify the stellar classification from the color - magnitude diagram.

In the centre shines a lonely star of the 8th magnitude.

The star appears to have a dim optical stellar companion, possibly a red dwarf of 13th magnitude that is seen in telescopes but is probably not actually bound by gravity to Tau Ceti itself.

For instance, two second - magnitude stars, Alpha Pavonis and Epsilon Carinae, were assigned the proper names Peacock and Avior respectively in 1937 by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office during the creation of The Air Almanac, a navigational almanac for the Royal Air Force.

It was really fun and illuminating for me to participate in all the nights, to watch how the instrument behaved according to the magnitude of the stars.

The cluster is 15 ′; in diameter and contains 120 stars, but in an 8 - inch telescope you can only see about 10 to 12 stars of the 12th and 13th magnitude.

I centred the finder - scope in a sort of trapezoid, formed by four stars (magnitude 6 to 7).

According to a University of Wisconsin's Niagra Query Engine entry, LDS 846 was announced as a possible companion by George A. Van Biesbroeck (1880 - 1974) at the Victoria Double Star Conference in 1956 (16th magnitude, red, 1130» distant in 67 degrees and included as Gamma Leporis C in Luyten's LTT catalogue as LTT 2368).

Located in a South Polar region of the sky that lacks bright stars above 5th magnitude and other interesting objects, Constellation Mensa was named by the Abbé [Abbot] Nicholas Louis de La Caille (1713 - 1762).

This is so narrow, just a few foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy are visible and are vastly outnumbered by the menagerie of far more distant galaxies, some nearly as faint as 30th magnitude, or nearly four billion times fainter than the limits of human vision.

The brightest stars in the cluster shine at magnitude 15.