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To verify this idea, the team conducted an extended photometric monitoring program using LCO's network of 1-meter telescopes around the world.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

There are minor drawbacks of the new photometric approach compared to spectroscopy: Since the supernovae do not have spectra, there is greater uncertainty in classification.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024

This could be done by measuring photometric redshifts, determined by the brightness observed through different filters, but this would only provide an estimate for the distance, Britt says.

From National Geographic • Aug. 9, 2023

High levels of star formation are thought to have muddled early photometric analysis.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2023

For those of first magnitude and fainter I have only given those for which all the best observers in ancient and modern times agree, and which have been confirmed by modern photometric measures.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard