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towards the sun. I'm going to add in here my normal two-toil on magnitude. The magnitude scale is an inverse logarithmic scale, meaning as the magnitude increase, the apparent brightness of an object decreases, my effect of about 2.5. So the best that you can do with the naked eye is about the sixth magnitude under optimal conditions. An optimal dark sky condition. So a magnitude is 2.5 times dimmer than a magnitude 6 object or a magnitude 5 object is 2.5 times brighter. The magnitude scale is set up so that every 5 magnitudes is a hundred time difference in