https://github.com/autistic-symposium/interstellar

👾 interstellar dust data reduction and analysis obtained from the stony brook mt. telescope
https://github.com/autistic-symposium/interstellar

analysis astrophysics clusters data-reduction idl light study

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👾 interstellar dust data reduction and analysis obtained from the stony brook mt. telescope

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/autistic-symposium/interstellar
• Owner: autistic-symposium
• License: apache-2.0
• Archived: true
• Created: 2013-05-14T18:44:33.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-03-14T18:56:05.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-06T00:05:25.024Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: analysis, astrophysics, clusters, data-reduction, idl, light, study
• Language: IDL
• Homepage: http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/steinkirch
• Size: 3.34 MB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
## researching the interstellar dust 













### tl; dr

* the study of intermediate-age open  clusters can be used to learn about the stellar evolution of  intermediate-mass stars and the dynamical evolution of clusters together with their interstellar extinction

* the interstellar extinction is a sum of absorption and scattering of the light within the interstellar medium,  being inversely proportional to the light wavelength

* consequently, a general increase in absorption toward shorter wavelengths is observed, resulting in the effect of reddening

* in this repository, i made available the source code for data reduction and analysis in IDL, and my report and results, as well

* **[here is the final report for this work](Interstellar_Extinction.pdf)**