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sol?s luminosity

Posted: 02.08.2004, 20:14
by Tosv
The sun?s luminosity (upper left corner of the screen) is calculated to 0.999x sun. Isn?t the correct value 1.000?

Posted: 04.08.2004, 08:17
by don
This has been brought up several times in the past, so obviously it is a platform-specific rounding error or some other kind of hard-to-fix problem. :(

Posted: 04.08.2004, 09:42
by Tosv
Okay.
I don?t know if this will helps but I have the same symptom on both my home-computer and my computer at work.

Home:
Celeron 333 MHz
Win ME
No 3D-hardware (an old Cirrus Logic-card that came with the computer).


Work:
Celeron 1 300 MHz
Win XP sp1
Intel 82810E Graphic?s Controller (according to sysinfo tool AIDA 32)


By the way. Is this a problem that affects all stars or is it limited to the sun?

Posted: 04.08.2004, 10:14
by granthutchison
Tosv wrote:By the way. Is this a problem that affects all stars or is it limited to the sun?
It's effectively a non-problem for other stars, since we don't know their luminosity to an accuracy of one part in a thousand anyway.

Grant