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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Magnitude of the Sun at Pluto : -18

Magnitude of the Moon from Earth: -12

The sun from pluto would be roughly as bright as the earth from the moon.


11 posted on 08/16/2011 1:35:24 PM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman!)
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To: BenKenobi

Apparent Magnitude is a logarithmic scale, with 5 degrees = 100X difference. Thus the -18 mag object would be about 250 times as bright as the -12 mag object.


17 posted on 08/16/2011 4:14:55 PM PDT by mikrofon (Space BUMP)
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