Changing Gears: The Big Picture

Stars

Stars: Physical Properties

• Apparent brightness
  data on the 125 (apparently) brightest stars
• Colors
  
  • Orion
  • Hydaes star cluster optical image, objective prism
  • filters: commonly used wavelength bands; a filter wheel
    
  • multiwavelength comparison: Plieades star cluster
• Luminosity
• Distance: parallax
  RECONS project data on the 100 nearest stars
  nearest stars mapped
  searchable database of nearby stars
  zoomable Milky Way Galaxy map
• Mass: from binary systems

  visual binaries: Mizar orbit

  spectroscopic binaries