Sentence examples for total brightness from inspiring English sources

For example, eclipsing a bright spot on Pluto makes a bigger total brightness change than eclipsing a dark spot.

Then, near maximum light, the shell becomes transparent, and its total brightness plummets rapidly, causing the nova to dim.

Moreover, with superior reflectance characteristics, the total brightness and colour gamut can also be modified under different ambience.

Astronomers have assumed that the large amount of coma activity (and corresponding total brightness) meant a larger-than-usual comet nucleus for comet C/1995 O1.

It managed this by converting the three colour signals into two: the total brightness, or luminance, signal (called the "Y" signal) and a complex second signal containing the colour information.

What happens in gravitational lenses is that the area of the source gets smaller (as it is focussed) so the surface brightness increases - the total brightness always remains the same.

They differ little in total surface brightness; near the limb the moon is somewhat brighter than the planet's surface on which it appears projected, but near the middle of the disk it is hardly distinguishable.

Even though most of the visible radiation is concentrated in a few discrete emission lines, the total apparent brightness of the brightest is the equivalent of tens of thousands of solar luminosities.

Observations were made of the change in the total average brightness of the Pluto Charon system during the eclipses.

Our analysis detected up to 264 different colour codes (average of 4 cells/combination) in total cellular brightness measurement.

Amazon claims the Paperwhite lasts for up to six weeks reading 30 minutes a day (21 hours in total) with the brightness set to 10 out of 24 levels.