Absolute stellar magnitude

by Lewis Carroll

Absolute stellar magnitude – the measure of a star’s true brightness is the apparent stellar magnitude that the star would have from a distance of 10 parsecs. The scale is logarithmic and inverse, i.e., the brighter the object, the smaller its stellar magnitude. Very bright objects can have a negative value of stellar magnitude.

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