The first observer to catalog differences in star brightnesses was Greek astronomer Hipparchus. He created a catalog around 135 b.c. of roughly 850 stars divided into six ranges. He called the ...

The recent discovery that the star Tr 27-28 is of spectral type WC 9 allows the determination of the visual absolute magnitude of a single WC 9-type star based on open cluster membership: Mv = —5.3 ± ...

IT is known from the fundamental work of Adams and Kohlschütter and their followers that certain pairs of lines in stellar spectra change in relative intensity with absolute luminosity, and this has ...

Photoelectric β values for over 1200 stars listed in Stephenson and Sanduleak's Catalog of Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way are used in conjunction with Reed and Beatty's [AJ, 109, 2252 (1995) ...