star gazing

Stargazing Basics: Understanding magnitudes

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Eyesonthesky.com- 4/25/13

 

The second video in this series explores how to understand the magnitude scale, starting with visible stars in the naked eye range, going up in brightness to understand the relative brightness of bright planets such as Venus and Jupiter and then the full Moon and Sun, and then heading back down the magnitude scale (but UP in numbers - all explained!) to dimmer objects.  In addition to visual magnitude, absolute magnitude, integrated magnitude and surface brightness are covered.

 

 

Link: Eyesonthesky.com

Stargazing Basics - Getting oriented in the night sky

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EyesontheSky.com - 4/24/13

 

 

 

 

Complete beginner to astronomy?  Want to learn the stars and constellations?  Or wish you just knew how to get around the night sky?  You have come to the right place.  These "Stargazing Basics" videos by Eyes on the Sky take the budding amateur astronomer through all the basics of stargazing, quickly and easily.  

These videos follow a proven formula I have developed over the past few years, and teach regularly at informal education presentations about astronomy, with excellent beginner results.  You will learn where the important locations in the sky are, how to understand the differences in the brightness of stars and planets, and finally, how to get a better sense of measuring from objects you can identify to ones you wish to find.

 

 

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