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SPEAKER 1: Hi, my name is Azeith and I'm
part of the CIA program--
CAI program.
SPEAKER 2: I'm Panteli and I'm also part of the CAI program.
SPEAKER 1: Today, we're here to talk about luminously and flux.
And I'll start off with explaining luminosity.
Luminosity is light given by the source.
And it has to go-- it has to travel
through [INAUDIBLE] degrees in order
to get to the detector, which my friend here will explain.
SPEAKER 2: Flux is the amount of photons
being received by the detector.
As you can see in the drawing, the arrows
represent the photons being released by the source.
The clouds are these lines right here.
And when the photons pass through the clouds,
a lot of them are either blocked or absorbed by the cloud.
So only a minimal amount of photons
are able to reach the detector.
So I'm Panteli.
He's Azeith.
And we just explained what luminosity and flux are.