brightness {UsingR} | R Documentation

## Brightness of 966 stars

### Description

The Hipparcos Catalogue has information on over 100,000 stars. Listed in this dataset are brightness measurements for 966 stars from a given sector of the sky.

### Usage

    data(brightness)

### Format

A univariate dataset of 966 numbers.

### Details

This is field H5 in the catalog measuring the magnitude, V , in the Johnson UBV photometric system. The smaller numbers are for brighter stars.

### Source

http://astro.estec.esa.nl/hipparcos

### Examples

    data(brightness)
    hist(brightness)

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