Kucharek and Essan both addressed this earlier, but when my friend showed the Email I mentioned earlier, there was a paragraph break in the middle of the sentence:
At a modest 75-power magnification
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> Mars will look as large as the full moon to the
> naked eye.
This probably caused most of the confusion, not to mention that this happened 2 years ago. Another popular myth busted by the BABB
