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Alright, I forgot to do my quick tutorial on magnitude scale and an inverse logarithmic scale, meaning as the magnitude goes up, the apparent brightness of an object increases by a factor of about 2.5. The simplest object that the human eye can see under optimal conditions is dark and dark and slow away from the city without all that smoke in the air as well. About 6 magnitudes. Any magnitudes less than 6 are visible with the naked eye. So a magnitude 5 object is 2.5 times brighter than a magnitude 6 object, while a magnitude 7 object is 2.5 times dimmer. That definitely requires vernaculars or telescopes to see anything greater than 6.