Re: Relationship between magnitude and distance

On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:17:58 -0500, David Nakamoto wrote
(in article <Ghple.9115$GN3.4027@trnddc04>):

> And it's the opposite with edge-ons. You're getting LESS starlight because
> one
> star blocks the light from another. You can't see stars behind other stars.
> And don't trout out the argument that they're just made of plasma and gas.
> Aside from the fact that plasma can absorb light just as well as solid matter

> under the right conditions, try looking through a cloud sometime.
>
> --- Dave
>

Dave,

I'm not sure you are right about stars blocking other stars. Except for the
case of close binaries, the average distance between stars is vast compared
to the stars' sizes. Imagine a tennis ball in Dallas, one in Miami, and
another up in Seattle. This is the correct scale. So even if you had
hundreds of thousands of stars in a "core sample" through a galaxy, I
strongly doubt a significant number would eclipse each other.

.

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