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Photometry (astronomy)
Photometry
is a technique of
astronomy
concerned with
measuring
the
flux
, or intensity of an
astronomical object
's
electromagnetic radiation
. When photometry is performed over broad
wavelength
bands of
radiation
, where not only the amount of radiation but also its spectral distribution is measured, the term
spectrophotometry
is used.
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