Monday, January 30, 2012

What is the dimmest star in the constellation Andromeda?

i cannot find the answer to this on the intenet anywhere

i am doing this for a science progect

if u could site your information that would be greatly appreciatedWhat is the dimmest star in the constellation Andromeda?S Andromedae is 2.6 million light years away, and was the dimmest star, it actually was a supernova in 1885 with a magnitude that peaked at 6, but dropped to 16 by 1879, its iron core was last seen in 1995 with Hubble.



So the dimmest you can see without an observatory would be Ross 248 or HH Andromedae which is a flare star which means its luminosity changes from time to time, but it has an apparent magnitude of 12.29.What is the dimmest star in the constellation Andromeda?That is an unanswerable question. The dimmest star is one that is too dim to see and therefore doesn't have a name or designation.



A better question would be, "Are there any stars in the constellation Andromeda that are below 29th magnitude?"



The reason I mentioned 29th magnitude is that that apparent magnitude is one integer brighter than the faintest star that Hubble can detect.



But a problem with that designation is that it is unlikely for that star to have any significance and so information would be buried in some star catalog of millions of stars.



The "dimmest star" is a constantly changing value as more sensitive telescopes and sensors are developed.What is the dimmest star in the constellation Andromeda?Man, we need more information. You mean the dimmest star inside the boundaries of the constellation? or one of the stars that is bright enough to be part of the line drawing the makes up the girl figure of Adromeda chained to a rock, but is the dimmest of those bright stars?

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