Absolute

Calculate absolute magnitude from visual magnitude for Sirius and Tau Ceti

#!/usr/bin/python3
import math
vmag = float(input("Visual magnitude?: "))
dist = float(input("Distance in light-years?: "))
amag = vmag-5*((math.log(dist/3.26156)/math.log(10))-1)
print ("Absolute magnitude=",amag)

 

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