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Old 15-07-2007, 11:30 AM
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Variable Stars

How do amateur astronomers (I'm assuming the professionals measure it electronically) estimate magnitudes of variable stars? Is it a matter of experience and comparing with non-variable stars of a known magnitude, or is there some other system?
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