brightness {UsingR}

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)