| Popis: |
In spite of the importance of knowing the color of the Sun on a modern standard photo-electric system, only two efforts have been made during recent times to measure this quantity. These are by Stebbins and Kron (1) who measured the Sun on the six-color system of Stebbins and Whitford, and by Louis Gallouët (2) who measured the Sun on theUBVsystem of Johnson and Morgan. Stebbins and Kron compared the light from the Sun after it had been dimmed with a special “reducing” device with the light from a tungsten ribbon filament standard lamp, which, in turn, had been compared with the light of distant stars. Gallouët, on the other hand, measured both the Sun and stars by means of an extremely ingenious optical instrument that acted as a light gatherer when used on the distant stars, and as a light reducer when used in its inverted optical sense on the Sun. Gallouët also measured the magnitude of the Sun, as well as the color and magnitude of the full Moon. |
