Orders of magnitude (luminous flux)

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To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list contains various light sources, with outputs measured in lumens (lm).

Factor
[lm] 		Multiple Value Item
10−2 1 centilumen (clm) 0.025 lm One firefly[citation needed]
101 10 lumen (lm) 12.57 lm One candle[1]
102 1 hectolumen (hlm) 780 lm 60 W incandescent light bulb
875 lm 50 W halogen lamp
900 lm 15 W compact fluorescent lamp
930 lm 75 W incandescent light bulb
103 1 kilolumen (klm) 1000 lm High-power LED[2]
1400 lm 75 W halogen lamp[3]
1550 lm 23 W compact fluorescent lamp[4][5]
2990 lm 200 W incandescent light bulb
104 10 kilolumen (klm) 75 000 lm Edison Commemorative Light Bulb[6]
105 100 kilolumen (klm) 600 000 lm IMAX projector bulb[7]
109 1 gigalumen (Glm) 42.3 billion lm "Luxor Sky Beam" spotlight array
1024 1 yottalumen (Ylm) about 4.6×1024 lm M9V red dwarf star (dimmest class)
1025 10 yottalumen (Ylm) about 3×1025 lm V886 Centauri (white dwarf)
1028 10 thousand yottalumen (Ylm) 3.6×1028 lm The Sun (3.846×1026 W × 93 lm/W[8][9])
1029 100 thousand yottalumen (Ylm) 7.26×1029 lm Sirius
1032 100 million yottalumen (Ylm) 9.5570×1032 lm HD 68273 (a Wolf-Rayet star)[10]
1038 100 trillion yottalumen (Ylm) 1.382×1038 lm Type Ia supernova
1041 100 quadrillion yottalumen (Ylm) 1.26×1041 lm Quasar 3C 273
1042 1 quintillion yottalumen (Ylm) ~1042 lm Hyperluminous quasar APM 08279+5255[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Robert H (Doc) Bryant. "Lumens, Illuminance, Foot-candles and bright shiny beads….". Theledlight.com. http://www.theledlight.com/lumens.html. Retrieved 10 August 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Powerful Little Light: LED With 1,000 Lumens". Physorg.com. March 15, 2007. http://www.physorg.com/news93198212.html. Retrieved 28 July 2011. 
  3. ↑ oee.nrcan.gc.ca - Lighting Reference Guide - Incandescent Lamps
  4. ↑ "Osram Dulux EL electronic energy-saving lamps" (pdf). Osram.dk. http://www.osram.dk/osram_dk/Professionelle/Brochurer_&_kataloger/Energispareprer_og_kompaktrr/e21_DULUX_EL_teknisk_guide.pdf. Retrieved Jan 4, 2009. 
  5. ↑ "Conventional CFLs". Energy Federation Incorporated. Archived from the original on October 14, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20081014010312/http://www.energyfederation.org/consumer/default.php/cPath/25_44_784. Retrieved 2008-12-23. 
  6. ↑ "Edison-Ford Winter Estates, Fort Myers, FL.". Kilokat's Antique Light Bulb Site. Kilokat's Antique Light Bulb Site. http://www.bulbcollector.com/gateway/Collector_Profiles/Edison_Winter_Estates. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  7. ↑ "About IMAX". The Henry Ford. The Henry Ford. http://www.thehenryford.org/imax/about.aspx. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  8. ↑ John P. Millis. "The Sun". About.com. http://space.about.com/od/sunsol/a/The-Sun.htm. Retrieved 2 August 2011. 
  9. ↑ "Maximum Efficiency of White Light". http://physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/papers/lumens-per-watt.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-31. 
  10. ↑ "The absolute magnitude of some galactic Wolf-Rayet stars". http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1965Obs....85..196G/0000197.000.html. Retrieved 31 May 2013. 
  11. ↑ "APM 08279+5255: An Ultraluminous Broad Absorption Line Quasar at a Redshift z = 3.87". The Astrophysical Journal. http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/505/2/529/fulltext/38371.text.html. Retrieved 3 September 2013. 




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