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How does the light from a flashlight that is shone from two different distances model the apparent magnitude of two stars with the same absolute magnitude ?

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With the distance allowing us a conversion from one to the other. Two stars can have the same apparent magnitude, but different absolute magnitude, if we measure the same amount of light from them, but they're at a different distance from the Earth.

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