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The brightness of an astronomical body as perceived by an observer. From Earth, the brightest object in the sky is the Sun with a visual magnitude of -26.7. The Full Moon shines at magnitude -13, Venus -4.9, Sirius -1.5 and the faintest stars visible to naked eye about magnitude +6.0.

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