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The stars form a natural series of light sources of every intensity. With the aid of photometers, these intensities have been measured with great accuracy and graded in a scale of magnitudes. This scale of ‘magnitudes’ has, however, nothing whatever to do with the actual dimensions of a star, but refers only to its brightness or luminous intensity.
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Minnaert, M. (1993). The Measurement of Intensity and Brightness of Light. In: Light and Color in the Outdoors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2722-9_5
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