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Tag Archives: ngc 659
Analyzing Open Clusters: BYU-RET Weeks 5-7
During Week 4 of my Research Experience for Teachers at Brigham Young University I began to see the results of the photometry analyses I’ve done for M67, an open star cluster in Cancer. This is the fun part: I finally … Continue reading
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Tagged a0 star, absolute magnitude, age of open clusters, apparent magnitude, balmer series, be stars, blue stragglers, distance modulus, hydrogen alpha, m67, ngc 659, ngc 663, ngc 752, open star cluster, parsec, red giant branch, stellar evolution, turnoff point
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Prospectus: BYU-RET Week 1
For the next ten or so posts, I will report on my experiences doing astronomical research at Brigham Young University this summer (2014). As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been selected to participate in a National Science … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, be star, binary star, black hole, blue straggler, cassiopeia, cepheid, cmd, color magnitude diagram, delta scuti, evolution of stars, high mass x-ray binary, hmxb, hr diagram, hydrogen alpha, m 67, main sequence, neutron star, ngc 659, ngc 663, nucleosynthesis, open cluster, rr lyrae, supernova, turnoff point, variable stars
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The Spaced-Out Classroom 