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Which is brighter in our sky, a star with apparent magnitude 5 or a star with apparent magnitude 10 ?
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Which is brighter in our sky, a star with apparent magnitude 5 or a star with apparent magnitude 10 ?

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The brighter object has the lower magnitude number.

The dimmest stars that can be seen with naked normal eyes are about magnitude 6, but the apparent magnitude of the sun in a clear sky is negative 27 !
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the answer to that would be a magnitude of 5

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