UBV photometry

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UBV photometry [¦yü‚bē¦vē fə′täm·ə·trē]

(astronomy)

A system of three-color photometry used to obtain specific stellar magnitudes; the system is based on the comparison of stars' magnitudes with a standard sequence of about 400 stars.

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