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Old 22-10-2020, 10:30 AM
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Both yours and Lee's version are absolute stop shelf

My first instincts were that you would be able to "resolve" individual stars BUT it did get me thinking about some of the brighter stars in our galaxy could be bright compared to their surrounding. Take Alpha and Beta Ori, they're both about Mag 0 but they have an Absolute Mag of -7.2 & -8.1 respectively which is crazy bright. At a distance of 6 million lightyears it means that some of the luminous supergiants would be around the Mag 18-22 and could show up as individual stars as they're so much brighter than everything around them; they stand out.
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