Measurement of Astronomical Objects

Mass

Luminosity

Composition

Age

Environment

Position and Motion

Size and Morphology

Temperature

Position(in the sky)

Motion

Distance

We measure the position of stars by astrometry, which is the action of measuring one stars' position by measuring its distance and direction relative to a reference star

Parallax

Cepheids

Type Ia supernovae

Proper Motion

Radial Velocity

Gravity and Rotation

Virial Theorem

Size=Angular Size*Distance

By obtaining luminosity, we can roughly know a stars' size, without having to know its angular size.

We can also obtain orbital radius by Kepler's Third Law.

L=4pi r*r flux

Effective Temperature

Color Temperature

Effective temperature is the temperature calculated by Stefan-Boltzmann's Law corresponding to the same amount of a stars' bolometric flux

Color temperature is obtained by curve fitting of a stars' flux-versus-frequency graph

It's hard to obtain a stars' age. But if the star is in a cluster, then we're able to estimate its age by plotting every star in the cluster on the HR Diagram.

Atomic and Molecular

Structure

Asteroseismology

Components for a galaxy

B field

Dark Matter

Central Blackhole

Clusters

Galaxy Clusters