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05-November-2007, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Jens

Is the magnitude still something like 2.5? I assume that it's still just about as easy to see as it was a week ago.

To my eyeballs, it looks a little dimmer to the naked eye, but it is still easily a naked eye object, even with my mediocre suburban skies. It also looks a little dimmer to me in the binocs, but even in those you can tell it is larger. I have wondered if it looks dimmer because it is spread out over a bigger volume?

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