How do you compare light and radio magnitudes?

Subject: How do you compare light and radio magnitudes?

Date: Wed Sep 29 10:19:38 1999
Posted by Brent Turcotte
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: North Bay State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 938614778.As

Message:


How also do you compare magnitudes from any area of the electromagnetic 
spectrum?

I have a feeling that the dimmest object visible in a radio telescope, 
likely using the Arecibo dish, would be of magnitude 40 to 50.

Re: How do you compare light and radio magnitudes?

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