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Old 14-November-2006, 10:29 PM
evanoconnor evanoconnor is offline
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Originally Posted by George View Post
The difference between bolometric and visual magnitude is the key, no doubt.
Good point. But how big do those corrections become, 2-3 magnitudes is the biggest I ever seen (Betelgeuse = 2.6)

[Edit: I mean negative of course ]
[Edit: -4 I guess for 03 stars, but here the luminosity is much more then 7 (7*50 for the correction) times the luminosity of the sun]

Last edited by evanoconnor; 15-November-2006 at 12:42 AM. Reason: additions
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