brightness              package:UsingR              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     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.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(brightness)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A univariate dataset of 966 numbers.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

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

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     <URL: http://astro.estec.esa.nl/hipparcos>

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(brightness)
     hist(brightness)

