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UBV system (Astronomy)

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Topical headingUBV system (Astronomy)
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Variant(s)Johnson-Morgan system (Astronomy)
Three-color photometry
UBV photometry
UBV system of stellar magnitudes
See alsoAstronomical photometry
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Stars--Magnitudes
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Found inWork cat.: 94-28224: Mermilliord, J. Catalog of mean UBV data on stars, 1994 (UBV system, UBV photometric system)
LC database, 6/23/94.
Gloss. astron. astrophysics (A system of stellar magnitudes which consists of measuring an object's magnitude through three color filters--ultraviolet, blue and visual (green-yellow) [in 1965 more bands were added]
AP dict. sci. tech. (Also, UBV system of stellar magnitudes)
McGraw-Hill dict. sci. tech. (Also Johnson-Morgan system)
Facts file dict. astron.
Dict. astron. space atmos. phen. (Also, Photometry, Three-color; Johnson-Morgan system)
Encyc. of astro. (Satterthwaite)
Concise dict. astro. (UBV photometry)