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astrodbtoolkit / astrodb-template-db

A template for astronomical databases.
https://astrodb-template-db.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Photometry or Flux #23

Closed kelle closed 8 months ago

kelle commented 9 months ago

Is "Photometry" biased? Should we rename the template table "Fluxes"?

kelle commented 9 months ago

Oh geez, I just remembered - photometry = magnitudes which are unitless. While Fluxes have units. So totally different things. What a mess astronomers are.