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Originally Posted by AK
Anyone have any idea what the dimmest (identifiable) object ever photographed is? It can't be much higher in magnitude than that, can it?
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In the
STIS Southern Deep Field, we saw objects of visual magnitude 31.5 with decent signal. We saw magnitude 31 objects for sure. They might be stars or galaxies; they were simply dots in the image. We'd need spectra to know for sure, and that takes literally a thousand times as long to do. That's unlikely, given that the deep field was a 10 day exposure.
