Stellar Photometry with Small Telescopes
Abstract
The effectiveness of intermediate and narrow band photometry, performed with small telescopes, for studying stellar structures, evolution and populations is discussed. Measurements made of stars emerging into visibility from the veiling shrouds of gas and dust surrounding star formation regions have indicated that coeval star formation does not occur, and that low mass stars form first in such regions. The process leaves fossil stars in the halo populations around open clusters. The usage of photometric data as input to models for the internal structures of stars is a means for assessing the validity of models for stellar astrophysics by comparisons with empirical data. Finally, the impacts small telescope photometry has on the understanding of stellar evolution in the solar neighborhood and of the evolution of the Galaxy are explored.
- Publication:
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Instrumentation and Research Programmes for Small Telescopes
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986IAUS..118..135T
- Keywords:
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- Stellar Evolution;
- Stellar Spectrophotometry;
- Stellar Structure;
- Telescopes;
- Black Body Radiation;
- Color-Magnitude Diagram;
- Galactic Evolution;
- Open Clusters;
- Star Formation;
- Astronomy