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Originally Posted by George
Guess what!  Fomalhaut b is the very first one found in visible light. [I still think we need to party about this huge milestone accomplishment.] I was just curious to see if I could determine its apparent magnitude since I had not seen it stated in the few articles I've read. |
Ok, I was slow too this morning. I think Fomalhaut b was quite a good deal brighter in the optical (600nm) than you calculated. The
discovery paper tried to explain this by suggesting the Fomalhaut-light was reflecting off a large circumplanetary disk.