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How Much Fainter Are the Faintest Stars You Can See

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How much fainter are the faintest stars you can see with a 10-inch telescope and a CCD camera that can integrate for 10 minutes compared to what you can see with your naked eye?


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Rehearsal Loop

A cognitive process involving the repetition of information to keep it in short-term memory or to encode it into long-term memory.

Visuospatial Sketchpad

A component of Baddeley's model of working memory, responsible for the temporal storage and manipulation of visual and spatial information.

Chunking

A process by which individual pieces of information are bound together into a meaningful whole, often enhancing memory retention.

Filtering

Filtering is the process of selectively focusing on certain information while ignoring other stimuli, often used in processing auditory information or in information theory.

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