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Light, magnitudes and spectra

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5 h
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Theory

What the chapter covers

Flux, magnitudes, distance modulus, colour and bolometric correction, extinction and airmass, surface brightness, photon counts and signal-to-noise, blackbodies, temperatures of planets and stars, spectral lines, Doppler shift, line broadening, optical depth.

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